You can tell how captivated the audience is by how still everyone is

What a tremendously inspiring story.

Such an amazing interview. Absolutely brilliant! 😁

Could you imagine playing with Miles Davis? This is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard.

That was such a great talk by Dave. What guts and such a great player!!! Cheers

Wonderful recounting of what had to be an amazing starting point to Dave’s storied Jazz trajectory! Love hearing these histories of the many wonderful musicians who had tenure with Miles!

The story shows that some people are better at human relations than others. Sometimes aloofness or distance is mistaken for arrogance or rudeness. Sometimes that is exactly what it is but sometimes it's a bit of shyness and a musician prefers to let his music be his voice. However, in my musical experience (from about 1954 to today) I've found musicians to be a very congenial bunch of people.

superb story. "plant your flag firmly in the ground"

Wow what a detailed and personal story. Amazing to picture these greats just hanging out. "Yeah Im going over to Herbies house" "Yeah Im staying at Jack D's house".

What a wonderful story!!

amazing story.

Very interesting story, thanks a lot for sharing this!

Brilliant story.

HUGE Dave Holland fan. I can ONLY what his experience was with Miles and those particular cats. How intimidatingly that must've been. It's bad enough you're coming from a different country-- and on a whim...but to have practically NO repour with the musicians you're going play with-- almost right up to the down-beat! And, according to Holland, THERE WAS NO DOWN-BEAT!! lol...Thanks so much for this.

when Dave said "plant your banner in the middle of the desert" means you have to be yourself ,act if you were a leader,show your stuff..be in command with the others leaders

it happens everywhere in many famous bands all the time since many years ago,Miles just need a replacement to do the bass part,thats all , maybe was not his time, like Jack DeJohnette said, Miles was changing bass players .but the most interesting was Miles hired Dave Holland from England only to come to USA to play couple gigs?

Dave's a great ventriloquist too. Who knew?

So they we're listening when you take the next step.

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Plant your banner in the dessert

And it’s too bad none of those gigs were professionally recorded.