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by John Sharpe
German saxophonist Silke Eberhard received deserved plaudits for her trio effort Being The Up And Down (Intakt, 2021), but Potsa Lotsa, which has been one of her prime outlets for considerably longer, also merits attention. Originally a wind quartet convened to realize The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010), and named after one of his tunes, the outfit has grown in both repertoire and size. Now a ten-piece band, hence the XL, they are primarily a vehicle for Eberhard's ...
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by Ian Patterson
Potsa Lotsa, the moveable feast headed by saxophonist/clarinetist Silke Eberhard, began life in 2010 as a wind quartet, debuting with The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2011), an innovative tribute to the tragically short-lived multi-reedist. The quartet expanded to an octet--Potsa Lotsa Plus--for Plays Love Suite By Eric Dolphy (Jazzwekstatt, 2014), breathing new life into a little-known Dolphy work that was incomplete at the time of his death. Potsa Lotsa XL featured even more hands in 2017, but with ...
read moreAnastasios Savvopoulos Azure: Ebbs And Flows
by Neri Pollastri
Quartetto atipico per strumentazionesax, pianoforte, chitarra e batteria, ma senza contrabbassoe per nazionalitàdue tedeschi e due greciquesto Azure è diretto dal chitarrista Anastasios Savvopoulos, che ne firma anche le nove composizioni, tutte venate di una narratività melodica, ma al tempo stesso anche molto aperte, destrutturate, virtuosamente sbilenche. Ad aprire è la suite bipartita che presta il nome all'album, Ebbs and Flows": la prima parte, più intensa, vede protagonista il sax tenore di Peter Ehwald, dal suono morbido ed ...
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