Bass Player: Dave Holland

A rare appearance by doubel bass legend Dave Holland in electric bass. The 1996 Herbie Hncock album, ‘The New Standards’ featured Jazz the reframing of a number of contemporary Pop tunes into a Jazz format and included performances by Michael Breacker, Don Alias, Jack DeJohnette and John Scofield. Amongst the tunes selected was this Prince tune ‘Thieves In The Temple’ which is essentially a fairly conventional Blues derived form around I, IV, V sequence. Holland holds the part as a groove based phrase that barely changes throughout so the chart is fairly minimal. It’s a fairly easy read and, once you have got thorough the form once, you will know where you are.