# CD review: Dave Holland · Zakir Hussain · Chris Potter – Good Hope 2019: Video, Tour dates, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/10/11/cd-review-dave-holland-%c2%b7-zakir-hussain-%c2%b7-chris-potter-good-hope-2019-video-tour-dates-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-10-11T16:46:30+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Good Hope is an album masterfully crafted by three giants of American and Indian
music: an international supergroup of musicians who individually have played vital
roles in pioneering advances in Jazz, developing and nurturing the cultural and 
musical connections between East and West. Three of the best in the world on their
respective instruments. Three of the most sophisticated and masterful arrangers 
and composers.**

Emanating from an original impulse by Zakir Hussain to form a large group project
known as “Crosscurrents”, the trio is built on a shared love and mutual respect 
for each others’ playing and the subtle integration of different worlds and different
approaches to music making into a coherent and beautiful whole.

Zakir Hussain is a true master of the Indian Classical tradition – his hypnotic,
percussive tabla playing instantly recognisable. Refusing to be confined to the 
music of his homeland, throughout the years he has embarked on a multitude of creative
collaborations that transcend boundaries including Shakti, which he founded with
John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, Planet Drum with Mickey Hart (of the Grateful Dead),
Tabla Beat Science, and Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland. Playing with
Dave and Chris is an effortless and engaging experience, as he explains…

Dave Holland, one of the greatest and best known international jazz players since
he was chosen by Miles Davis, has never stood still – his career defined by a lifetime’s
urgent quest for new beauty, for new tests of his extraordinary technique and musical
ability, for new partnerships with the brightest and the best. His questing nature
has led to many fascinating fusions, all of them organic outcrops of his own musical
nature. With Crosscurrents he has found another grouping in which his improvisatory
instincts and beautiful tone can flourish.

Chris Potter, who released his recent acclaimed album Circuits on Edition Records
earlier in 2019, is a generation behind Zakir and Dave but his musical language,
his inspired creative intensity and command of his instrument is on a par with his
fellow bandmates. Adept in almost any style, tempo, harmonic or rhythmic position,
Potter’s voice is unmistakable, powerful and awe-inspiring. His breadth of ideas
and creativity is endless and spontaneous, and is executed with generosity, respect,
and maturity. Despite being almost two decades younger than Holland and Hussain,
Potter is fast progressing towards legendary status as one of the greatest saxophonists
of his or any generation. For Potter, working with this band was enlightening: “
For many years Zakir Hussain had been on my short list of people I really wanted
to work with, so when I got the call a couple years ago to be a part of a project
he was putting together at SFJazz in San Francisco, which also included my great
mentor and friend Dave Holland, I was absolutely thrilled. We did a few tours with
this larger ensemble, which included some other amazing Indian musicians: Shankar
Mahadevan on vocals, Louiz Banks on piano, his son Gino Banks on drums, and Sanjay
Divecha on guitar. The trio came about as a result of this larger formation, we 
toured as a trio in the summer of 2018 and decided to record in September. I have
to admit I was a little nervous about the trio setting since Zakir and Dave are 
two of the most amazing maestros on the planet, also it is a very exposed role for
the saxophone, and playing with only tablas and bass is rather unfamiliar sonic 
territory. However the chemistry immediately felt great, and the problems of reconciling
the musical differences between the jazz language and the Indian classical language
immediately melted away playing with musicians who listen so well. It’s been a huge
joy for me to be part of this project, and reaffirms my belief in the power of music
as a beautiful way of bringing together people from different backgrounds and traditions”.

Good Hope is an album built on mutual respect, a shared love of the music and dedicated
to musical and cultural integration: unity in diversity. Good Hope is a vital contribution
to the art of musicianship and collaboration. It’s brilliance, musical vision and
execution is world-class. Good Hope is an album that inspires embracing diversity
for future generations.

1. Ziandi (07:23)
 2. J Bhai (08:18) 3. Lucky Seven (010:47) 4. Suvarna (08:02) 
5. Island Feeling (07:12) 6. Bedouin Trail (07:43) 7. Good Hope (08:21) 8. Mazad(
08:40)

**Crosscurrents Trio:**

Dave Holland, double bass
 Zakir Hussain, tabla Chris Potter, saxophones

**TOUR DATES**

Oct. 23 – Enjoy Jazz Festival, Heidelberg, Germany
 Oct. 24 – Halle 02 / Frankfurt
Jazz Festival, Germany Oct. 25 – Philharmonie Luxembourg Grand Auditorium, Luxembourg
Oct. 26 – Teatro Comunale di Cormons, Italy Oct. 27 – Moods Club, Zurich, Switzerland
Oct. 29 – MoMkult, Budapest, Hungary Oct. 30 – Zagreb Youth Theater, Zagreb, Croatia
Oct. 31 – Kulturni Centar Panceva Pancevacki, Pancevo, Serbia Nov. 1 – Tampere Music
Festival, Tampere, Finland Nov. 3 – Casino de Montbenon, Lausanne, Switzerland Nov.
5 – Teatro Massimo, Pescara, Italy Nov. 6 – Auditorium Parco Della Musicasala, Rome,
Italy Nov. 8 – Unipol Auditorium / Bologna Jazz, Bologna, Italy Nov. 9 – BARTS /
Barcelona Jazz Festival, Spain Nov. 13 – Réunion Island, France Nov. 16 – La Seine
Musicale Acoustic Room, Boulogne – Billancourt, France Nov. 17 – Cadogan Hall, London
Jazz Festival, UK

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