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Potsa Lotsa XL: Amoeba's Dance

Read "Amoeba's Dance" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
August 11, 2025

Like an amoeba, whose shape-shifting properties enable it to adapt to its surroundings, Silke Eberhard's Potsa Lotsa expands and contracts according to its needs. Originating as a four-horn ensemble inspired by the music of multi-instrumentalist/composer Eric Dolphy, Potsa Lotsa blasted off with Potsa Lotsa: The Complete Works Of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt, 2010). An auspicious debut, Eberhard's quartet stripped Dolphy's compositions down to their melodic essence before reimagining--a fittingly inventive homage. Then came Potsa Lotsa Plus, an octet featuring ...

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Peter Van Huffel's Callisto: Meandering Demons

Read "Meandering Demons" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 28, 2024

Peter Van Huffel, the Canadian-born saxophonist and composer, has long been a force to reckon with in the avant-garde jazz scene. Known for his work with bands like Gorilla Mask and his various collaborations with other innovative musicians, Van Huffel has consistently pushed the boundaries of jazz, incorporating elements of free improvisation, rock and classical music. His previous albums, such as Boom Crane (Fresh Sounds New Talent, 2014) and The Scrambling Ex (FMR, 2015), displayed his fearless approach to composition ...

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Peter Van Huffel’s Callisto: Meandering Demons

Read "Meandering Demons" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 22, 2024

Quartetto geograficamente misto, quello diretto dal quarantaseienne (quasi) baritonista canadese Peter Van Huffel, con una trombettista italo-canadese, un pianista greco e un batterista tedesco. Molto coesa, compatta, illuminata (e guidata) da un'idea forte è peraltro la musica contenuta in quest'ottimo album, inciso a Berlino nell'ottobre 2022. L'idea di cui sopra si deve certamente al leader (tutti suoi i brani, ciò che con una buona lente d'ingrandimento riuscirete a leggere, blu su nero...), ma la coesione del quartetto Callisto fa sì ...

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Potsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung: Gaya

by John Sharpe
May 22, 2022

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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Potsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung: Gaya

by Ian Patterson
May 14, 2022

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 ...

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Anastasios Savvopoulos Azure: Ebbs And Flows

Read "Ebbs And Flows" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
February 4, 2021

Quartetto atipico per strumentazione—sax, pianoforte, chitarra e batteria, ma senza contrabbasso—e per nazionalità—due tedeschi e due greci—questo 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 ...