Dave Holland is an English jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader who has been performing and recording for five decades. On "Conference Of The Birds" he is leads his quartet on this 1973 release which earned four stars from The Penguin Guide to Jazz and is now considered an essential album in any jazz collection.

This album features pianist Chick Corea, bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul during the brief period that, along with Anthony Braxton, they were members of the fine avant-garde quartet Circle. The music heard on this set is not quite as free as Circle's but often very explorative. Four of the six songs are Corea originals which, in addition to Holland's "Vedana" and Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti", form a very viable set of adventurous jazz, recorded just a few months before Corea changed direction.

"Paris Concert" is a live album by the short-lived jazz group Circle, which consisted of saxophonist Anthony Braxton, pianist Chick Corea, bassist David Holland and drummer Barry Altschul, recorded in 1971 and released on the ECM label. While Corea would dissolve the group shortly after the LP's release, it remains a fascinating document of the pianist during a transitional period of his career.