Music from Two Basses is an album by bassists David Holland

Dave Holland

Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....

 and Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips

Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....

 recorded in 1971 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 5 stars stating "this historic date features the two British bassists engaged while at the top of their powers, exploring not only tonality and the dynamic and harmonic possibilities that exist between two double basses, but also the expanded notions of how the different players' styles and musical intuitions dovetail, rather than work in opposition... There is simply no bass recording like this one, and over 30 years after its release, it is still a classic, an astonishing look at how intimate and instinctive musical communication can really be".

Track listing

All compositions by Dave Holland except as indicated

1. "Improvised Piece I" (Holland, Phillips) - 10:33
2. "Improvised Piece II" (Holland, Phillips) - 7:46
3. "Beans" (Phillips) - 3:10
4. "Raindrops" - 4:13
5. "May Be I Can Sing It for You" (Phillips) - 1:48
6. "Just a Whisper" - 4:57
7. "Song for Clare" - 4:52
   • Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany on February 15, 1971

Personnel

• David Holland
  Dave Holland
  Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. He has lived in the United States for 40 years....
  
   — bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  , cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Barre Phillips
  Barre Phillips
  Barre Phillips is a jazz and free improvisation bassist. A professional musician since 1960, he migrated to New York City in 1962, then to Europe in 1967. Since 1972 he has been based in southern France....
  
  — bass