Triplicate (Dave Holland album)

Triplicate is a studio album by the Dave Holland Trio, recorded in March 1988 and released on ECM later that year.

This was the first album by Dave Holland following the dissolution of his quintet that had featured Steve Coleman, Robin Eubanks, Kenny Wheeler and Marvin "Smitty" Smith.

Coleman was the sole member to remain for this session while the drum chair was filled by Jack DeJohnette, who had worked extensively with Holland in the bands of Miles Davis, Chick Corea and in Gateway.

In an essay for ECM blog Between Sound and Space, Tyran Grillo wrote:Triplicate is a fantastic (surprise, surprise) trio album that joins bassist Dave Holland with altoist Steve Coleman and rhythmatist Jack DeJohnette... Triplicate is not an in-your-face album but one wrought with careful language.

One imagines that if this album were alive, the audience would be whooping and clapping all the same, but in the studio a certain cleanliness of sound wins over.