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Potsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung: Gaya
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 ...
read morePotsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung: Gaya
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 moreThe Clarinet Trio: Transformations and Further Passages
by John Eyles
A clarinet trio is a chamber trio comprising a clarinet, a bowed string instrument such as a violin, viola or cello, and a piano; the phrase can also refer to a composition written for such a trio. However, away from such matters, The Clarinet Trio is the name of a three-clarinet group which first recorded together on October 1st 1998, in Berlin, the resulting album, Oct. 1, '98, having been released on the Leo Lab label in 1999. The first ...
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