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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chris Potter

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chris Potter

All About Jazz is celebrating Chris Potter's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Chris PotterBorn in Chicago on New Year’s Day 1971 and moving to Columbia, South Carolina as an infant, the prodigious youngster began fooling around on guitar and piano at the age of three... more

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Article: Album Review

Adam Niewood & His Rabble Rousers: Epic Journey, Volumes I & II

Read "Epic Journey, Volumes I & II" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Adam Niewood's Epic Journey, Volumes I & II is the third vertex in an isosceles triangle of recent releases, the other two points being Noah Preminger's Dry Bridge Road (Nowt, 2008) and Chris Potter's Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard (Sunnyside, 2007)--records by saxophonist-leaders ranging from reasonably to very young, with similar instrumentation--notably ...

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Article: Live Review

London Jazz Festival 2008

Read "London Jazz Festival 2008" reviewed by Frederick Bernas

by Frederick Bernas

London Jazz Festival 2008 London, England Nov. 14-23, 2008 Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy, Mark SandersThe VortexNovember 14 In a meticulously unplanned concert, the music often seemed like a sonic battle between these three renowned improvisers. Sporting a black fitted tee and a hairstyle that could be straight from the ...

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Article: Live Review

Chris Potter Underground, Live at the Regattabar

Read "Chris Potter Underground, Live at the Regattabar" reviewed by Michael Epstein

by Michael Epstein

Chris Potter Underground Regattabar Boston, MA September 10, 2008 For the past four years, Chris Potter has been forging ahead on the music scene with a new vision. Compare his 2004 release on Sunnyside, Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard, with the 2007 Sunnyside release Follow the Red Line. Both ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Chris Potter & His Underground @ Chris' Jazz Cafe

Chris Potter & His Underground @ Chris' Jazz Cafe

Multi-reedman/composer Chris Potter is often cited by critics, musicians, and a steadily increasing number of fans as the finest saxophonist of his generation. Potter has performed with a diverse and heady array of artists, including James Moody, Jim Hall, Marian McPartland, Dave Douglas, Larry Carlton, Steely Dan, and Dave Holland, with whom Chris has been performing ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Chris Potter: Follow The Red Line & Song For Anyone

Read "Chris Potter: Follow The Red Line & Song For Anyone" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

Chris PotterFollow the Red Line: Live at the Village VanguardSunnyside2007 Chris PotterSong for AnyoneSunnyside2007 These two albums were released simultaneously, thereby making a deliberate feature of the contrast in their ...

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Song for Anyone

By Chris Potter

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Absence; Against the Wind; Closer to the Sun; Family Tree; Chief Seattle; Cupid and Psyche; Song for Anyone; The Arc of a Day; Estrellas del Sur; All by All.

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Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard

By Chris Potter

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Train; Arjune; Pop Tune #1; Viva Las Vilnius; Sea; Togo.

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Article: Album Review

Chris Potter 10: Song for Anyone

Read "Song for Anyone" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

While Chris Potter's other release on the same day, Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard (Sunnyside, 2007), is a feature for his high energy, rock- and funk-inflected Underground group, Song for Anyone presents a side to the saxophonist that's not been heard before. Written for an unorthodox combination of instruments, it focuses more ...

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Article: Album Review

Chris Potter Underground: Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard

Read "Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

In a rare move, saxophonist Chris Potter has released two CDs on the same day, and on the same label--Song For Anyone, his first album for a large ensemble; and Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard, featuring the Underground band that's been touring for the past couple of years. Risky, perhaps, but Potter's ...


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