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Live At The Village Vanguard
1:17 am
Thu January 31, 2013

Chris Potter Quartet: Live At The Village Vanguard

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Originally published on Wed July 9, 2014 12:32 pm

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    Chris Potter (center) performs live at the Village Vanguard.
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    Pianist Brad Mehldau, left, came by the Village Vanguard to see his friends play. He chats with fellow piansit Ethan Iverson.
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    Outside the Village Vanguard.
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    Chris Potter, backstage, warming up on bass clarinet.
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    Chris Potter shows Eric Harland some music.

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    Chris Potter.
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    Ethan Iverson.
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    Known mostly as a tenor saxophonist, Chris Potter broke out his alto flute, as well as his bass clarinet and soprano saxophone for the gig.
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    The Chris Potter quartet.
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    Eric Harland.
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    Chris Potter.
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    Bassist Larry Grenadier.
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    The Chris Potter Quartet.
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The history of jazz is often told as a sequence of epic heroes, legends whose careers proceed from one great accomplishment to another. Coincidentally, the saxophonist Chris Potter, bright-toned and gymnastically powerful, has been reading Homer lately. That's inspired his latest suite of compositions, a collection of tuneful numbers based on The Odyssey. The Sirens is geared largely around a quartet of widely admired musicians, not least of whom is Potter himself.

Like brave Odysseus, Potter returns to a place which has been a home base for him. His quartet celebrates the release of The Sirens at the Village Vanguard in New York. WBGO and NPR Music presented a live radio broadcast and video webcast of the Chris Potter Quartet in concert.

Set List

All compositions by Chris Potter unless otherwise indicated.

  • "Wine Dark Sea"

  • "Wayfinder"

  • "The Owl Of Cranston" (P. Motian)

  • "Kalypso"

  • "The Sirens"

  • "Sky"

Personnel

  • Chris Potter, saxophones

  • Ethan Iverson, piano

  • Larry Grenadier, bass

  • Eric Harland, drums

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