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Music CD - Chris Potter Underground: Follow the Red Line - Live at the Village Vanguard
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Music CD: Follow the Red Line - Live at the Village Vanguard
Artist: Chris Potter Underground
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $11.93
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Manufacturer: Sunny Side Records
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Tracks:
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1. Train
2. Arjuna
3. Pop Tune #1
4. Viva Las Vilnius
5. Zea
6. Togo
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0016728307529
Format: Live
Label: Sunny Side Records
Manufacturer: Sunny Side Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sunny Side Records
Release Date: 2007-09-11
Studio: Sunny Side Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: AMONG THE BEST JAZZ LIVE ALBUMS OF MODERN JAZZ
Comment: JUST A FEW WORDS FOR THIS LIVE MASTERPIECE.AWESOME AND EXPLOSIVE .MUSIC WILL EXPLAIN MUCH BETTER HERE THAN WORDS.AMONG THE BEST JAZZ LIVE ALBUMS OF MODERN JAZZ .
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Summary: Outstanding
Comment: Chris Potter is one of my favourite saxophonists of all time. I'm also lucky enough to have seen a live performance (by another musician) at The Village Vanguard in NYC for myself. A friend took me there back in the 90s. I can thus easily picture in my head, what the gigs that led to this album might have been like. They must've been electrifying.
This six-tune set recorded live at the Vanguard over two dates in February of 2007, is fresh, exciting and bursting with energy and while not Potter's best album as far as I'm concerned (I personally prefer his studio sound), is definitely one of the best live jazz albums I've heard in a while. Apart from Potter himself of course, who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet and is always amazing, I am particularly impressed by Adam Rogers on guitar - unusually, he has a very individual sound that doesn't remind me of any of the better known contemporary guitarists - and Craig Taborn on the Fender Rhodes. Things sound a bit hectic here and there as they often do during live performances but most of the time, nothing but magic shines through. I love all the tunes (the Ed Blackwell-penned "Togo", the only one Potter didn't write incidentally, is my overall favourite) but I wasn't exactly overjoyed at the way "Pop Tune #1" morphed from a beautiful ballad into a so-so dance tune halfway through.
A minor quibble though, I suppose, with what is undoubtedly, an outstanding CD overall. Five stars.
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Summary: Follow the Red Line
Comment: Follow the Red Line - Live at the Village Vanguard
This is an excellent recording. The playing is masterful and world class and marries the sense of groove from popular music with the chops and intelligence of jazz. One of the more exciting pieces of music I've heard recently. If you enjoy Dave Holland's music or The Bad Plus you should check this out.
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Summary: Innovative Excellence
Comment: Chris Potter's Follow the Red Line CD is a phenomenon. First rate innovation throughout. I urge you to buy this one!
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Summary: Mind-blowing
Comment: Pop Tune #1 is probably epitomizes JAZZ-FUNK better than any other song I've ever heard. Chris Potter never disappoints.
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Editorial Reviews:
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A part of the jazz tradition is the live recording, and Manhattan's fabled Village Vanguard is the brook of fire through which every improviser must pass. That said, Follow the Red Line / Live at the Village Vanguard shows that Potter has come through the burning sands of that venue s bandstand in flying colors. Backed by an intriguing, piano-less quartet composed of Detroit's Craig Taborn on Fender Rhodes electric piano, drummer Nate Smith, and guitarist Adam Rogers, Potter prances and dances on six extended-length excursions. Train leads off the set with some serious Staz-on-steroids swing, followed by the subcontinental syncopations of Arjuna, named for the Indian prince in the Indian literary classic, the Mahabharata. Pop Tune #1 is laced with some up-south downbeats in three, graced by Smith's tangy solo, while Viva Las Vilnius dances with Carib-cadences, contrasted by the hymnal hues of Zea. The disc closes on the powerful, Afrobeat anthemed Togo a propulsive ode to the delightful West African nation that Duke Ellington saluted in one of his last major suites. Here, Potter's in-the-pocket bass clarinet solo and accompaniment is an Africanized summation of that instrument s major voices from Eric Dolphy to Bennie Maupin, equaled only by Taborn's impossible keyboard solo.
Chris Potter s synthesis of the saxophone, flute and bass clarinet masters, and his ability to mold them into his own sound started with his first instrument, the piano, when he grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. He moved there after he was born in Chicago on New Years Day, 1971. He later switched to saxophone after he heard alto sax legends Paul Desmond, and Johnny Hodges. He was a professional by the time he was fourteen, and four years later, he moved to New York, enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music, and joined bop trumpeter Red Rodney's quintet until 1994. He also worked with Jazz Mentality and guitarist John Hart. His other prominent gigs as a sideman include work with Marian McPartland on her 1993 CD, In My Life, and with Renee Rosnes, Paul Motian, Dave Holland, John Patitucci, Dave Douglas, Steve Swallow, and Kenny Werner. He also toured with Steely Dan and recorded on their 2000 recording, Two Against Nature.
Potter's first CD as a leader, Presenting Chris Potter was released on the Criss Cross label in 1992. His other recordings of note include Concentric Circles (Concord Jazz, 1993), Vertigo (Concord Jazz, 1998), Gratitude (Verve 2001), Traveling Mercies (Verve, 2002), and his first two sides for Sunnyside, Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard (2004), and Underground (2006). The reedman s gifts have also been noted by the critics, as evidenced by his winning of Denmark's esteemed Jazzpar Prize in 2000 the youngest to ever win the award.
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