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Chris Potter: Got The Keys To The Kingdom: Live At The Village Vanguard
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Paul Motian
drums1931 - 2011
Some of Potter's greatest influences,

Sonny Rollins
saxophoneb.1930

John Coltrane
saxophone1926 - 1967

Coleman Hawkins
saxophone, tenor1904 - 1969

Joe Henderson
saxophone1937 - 2001

Joe Lovano
drumsb.1952
Unlike Potter's two previous live albums of mostly original material, this third chapter, recorded in February 2022, comprises only standards, albeit less travelled ones. Potter is joined by

Scott Colley
bassb.1963

Craig Taborn
pianob.1970

Marcus Gilmore
drumsb.1986
On the fourteen-minute "You Gotta Move," a brilliant reworking of

Mississippi Fred McDowell
guitar, slide1904 - 1972

Sun Ra
piano1914 - 1993

Don Pullen
piano1941 - 1995
It would be easy to imagine Coltrane's classic quartet tearing through "Nozani Na," a traditional Afro-Brazilian tune popularized by Heitor Villa-Lobos. Potter's quartet uses the mantra-like motif as a springboard to freely improvised passagesTaborn edgy and percussively aggressive, Potter melodically centred and yearning. Colley and Potter duet for the first three minutes of Chico Buraque, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes' beautifully melancholic "Ohla Maria," before piano and drums enter, treading lightly. Here, and on

Billy Strayhorn
piano1915 - 1967
There are no brakes on

Charlie Parker
saxophone, alto1920 - 1955
Potter has long-qualified as a jazz great, one of the preeminent modern-day saxophonists, and one who holds the key between past and present. Got The Keys To The Kingdom provides impassioned confirmation of that. ">
Track Listing
You Gotta Move; Nozani Na; Blood Count; Klactoveedsedstene; Olha Maria; Got The Keys To The Kingdom.
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Title: Got The Keys To The Kingdom: Live At The Village Vanguard | Year Released: 2023 | Record Label: Edition Records
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