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Born in Australia in 1976, Jacám Manricks hails from a distinguished musical family with global reach. His parents played in the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in his hometown of Brisbane, and his paternal grandparents were also accomplished musicians. Though he never met his grandfather, who was born in Portugal’s Indian colony Goa, he inherited a passion for jazz from him. An alto saxophonist and clarinetist, Mario Manricks went on to earn a good deal of renown as a jazz and classical reed player in post-World War II Sri Lanka.
“I still have his Selmer Mark VI alto saxophone and several of his clarinets,” Manricks says. “He got well known leading a big band, but he also played classical music. My grandmother, a concert pianist, performed with him on Sri Lankan radio.”
All of their children went on to play music professionally, including Manricks’s father, Sri Lankan-born cellist Camillio Manricks. He came to the United States to study as a teenager, attending the Peabody Conservatory and eventually settling in Australia, where he met his mother, an orchestral flute and piccolo player trained in the French classical style influenced by Marcel Moyse and Jean Pierre-Rampal. Jacám grew up attending his pa
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By Steve Feeney
Bassist Dave Holland’s new album, Another Land, will take you to interesting places. Clarinetist Ben Goldberg’s latest, with its guitar/bass/drums core, might do the same.
Dave Holland – Another Land (Edition Records)
Ben Goldberg – Everything Happens to Be. (Bag Production Records)
A couple of new instrumental releases superbly dramatize the value of musical collaboration among strong individual voices.
I first caught sight of Dave Holland at the Boston Tea Party (formerly The Ark) on Lansdowne Street in Boston. He was part of a quintet that Miles Davis put together on a tour that followed the release of his epochal album Bitches Brew.
Looking more like a hippy than a jazz guy and playing electric bass, the U.K.-born Holland (then about 23-years-old) and drummer Jack DeJohnette appeared to be having the time of their lives backing Miles, who was, as usual, mysterious and slightly menacing in performance. I had never seen two musicians having so much fun. And you could feel it in the music.
Holland went on to secure a place as one of the finest bassists of the modern jazz era eventually becoming a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. Whether it has been acoustic, electric, or somewhere in between, his music has continually deman
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