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Album Review
Chris Potter Quartet: Vertigo
by Jack Bowers
Everyone nowadays wants to be a songwriter, it seems, and young Chris Potter is no exception. All of the songs on Vertigo, Potter's fifth date under his own name for Concord Jazz, were composed by the 27-year-old South Carolinian, and none of them, to these ears, serves as more than a convenient springboard for improvisation. As for the latter, it is shared primarily by Potter on tenor, bass clarinet or soprano (on Wake Up"), guitarist Rosenwinkel and Potter's guest, Joe ...
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