 or  iTunes Price: $11.99 Genre: Jazz Released: Jan 13, 2015 Customer Ratings (8 Ratings) |
Customer ReviewsExcellent Preview (5 stars)I look forward to every Chris Potter release, this one more than others, based upon the iTunes preview. There is no doubt that Chris is perhaps the finest improvising musician walking the planet today. I anticipate this album further demonstrating his already apparent outstanding compositional talents. Future Grammy Nomination (5 stars) Brilliant. Mind blowing. INSPIRING. Another Fine Effort (5 stars) Chris continues his distinguished career as an inventive recording artist of the first rank with this superb ECM release. The combination of great writing and inspired improvising is not new but the instrumentation here deserves special mention. A string quartet headed up by improvising violinist Mark Feldman (whose Leroy Jenkins influence is fully audible), two bassists (electric bass guitar and double bass) and the warm, woody mallet tones BiographyBorn: January 1, 1971 in Chicago, ILGenre: Jazz Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s Post-bop saxophonist Chris Potter quietly became one of the more sophisticated and respected stylists of the '90s and early 2000s, both as a leader and as a sideman in several prominent groups. Born in Chicago on New Year's Day 1971, Potter grew up mostly in Columbia, South Carolina, and started playing piano as a child. He took up the alto saxophone at age ten, initially inspired by Paul Desmond and Johnny Hodges, and went on to learn tenor and soprano sax, bass clarinet, and flute as well; by 13,...
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