Jazz Articles about Chris Potter

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In occasione dell'ottantesimo compleanno di Dave Holland, la Edition Records pubblica Freedom Call, un cofanetto di sei LP, tre CD e in streaming, che riunisce inediti live di tre formazioni fondamentali della sua carriera: il sestetto con Mulgrew Miller, Alex Sipiagin, Antonio Hart, Robin Eubanks ed Eric Harland, la formazione che aveva inciso Pass It On; il quintetto con Chris Potter, Robin Eubanks, Steve Nelson e, nella configurazione qui documentata, Nate Smith; e il quartetto Prism, con Craig Taborn, Kevin ...

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Chris Potter: Osawatomie Brown

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 10, 2026

Dire che Chris Potter sia uno dei sassofonisti più portentosi della scena contemporanea è un po' come raccontare a un napoletano perché la pizza è buona. Ma quando Potter incastona il suo virtuosismo strumentale all'interno di composizioni altrettanto solide e li ammanta di sofisticati arrangiamenti la sua arte raggiunge vette sublimi. Alive with Ghosts Today (Edition Records) offre questa triade vincente: intensità esecutiva, scrittura avvincente e orchestrazione raffinata portano questo album ben oltre altri suoi lavori costruiti attorno ...

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Chris Potter: Osawatomie Brown

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 8, 2026

Telling you that Chris Potter is one of the most spellbinding saxophonists on today's scene feels a bit like explaining the virtues of pizza to a Neapolitan. Yet, it is when his formidable instrumental command is framed by equally strong compositions and imaginative arrangements that his artistry shines brightest. Alive with Ghosts Today (Edition Records) delivers the full Chris Potter trifecta: intense playing, compelling writing and sophisticated orchestration, elevating this record well beyond other albums that feature “just" ...

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Chris Potter: Alive With Ghosts Today

Read "Alive With Ghosts Today" reviewed by Kevin Poindexter

by Kevin Poindexter
June 5, 2026

The history of America is haunted by ghosts of the past. These ghosts transform our present-day landscape, our everyday lives, and inform the very core of our existence. On Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition Records, 2026), saxophonist Chris Potter steps away from the normal high-adrenaline jazz that has signified his recent outings and has instead put together a band designed to feel more like a small-town ensemble, a mixture of jazz and folk, to lead through a suite of tunes that examines ...

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Rubalcaba Potter Harland Grenadier: First Meeting

Read "First Meeting" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
December 4, 2025

Un'ora e mezza abbondante di musica bella tirata (diciamo ad ampie campate: sei soli brani tutti superiori ai tredici minuti) colta dal vivo al Dizzy's Club di New York a fine agosto 2022 è quanto ci arriva da questo autentico supergruppo forte di quattro prime donne dell'odierna scena jazzistica americana, situazione che può determinare una catena ininterrotta di scontri al vertice (succede spessissimo), ciò che qui non accade se non del tutto marginalmente, visto che la musica, pur ...

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Nicolas Genest: Danhomey Songs

Read "Danhomey Songs" reviewed by Fran Kursztejn

by Fran Kursztejn
November 22, 2025

Danhomey Songs is French-Beninese trumpeter Nicolas Genest's first record as leader since 2015. Despite a voraciously prolific career working with just about every Francophone master working today, but specifically under the tutelage of Aldo Romano and Henri Texier, he has only produced a handful of recordings as bandleader. Perhaps it is the personages he usually finds himself supporting, the idiosyncratic duo of Romano and Texier or titanic conductors like Terence Blanchard and Wynton Marsalis, or the simple fact of his ...

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier & Eric Harland: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy’s Club

Read "First Meeting: Live at Dizzy’s Club" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
July 11, 2025

Let us not beat around the bush or obfuscate the obvious: First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club is as sweet a listen anyone can wish for or expect as simpatico luminaries--pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Eric Harland--take to Dizzy's stage. And command it, but not with a heavy hand or selfish aspirations. A dazzling portent, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club opens all the doors and windows facing Columbus Circle and lets a most ...