★★★★★
There is little doubt that saxophonist Chris Potter is one of the most important jazz artists of the modern era. Comfortable in a variety of jazz settings, the artist has contributed to several ECM Records-produced albums, yet The Sirens marks his leadership debut for the Germany-based label. Intense, passionate and a dazzling soloist who is a master at building tension and spiraling a given piece towards climactic pinnacles, this production focuses on Potter's holistic talent...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2013-08-28
★★★★★
Saxophonist and composer Chris Potter (born 1970) can be considered one of the world's leading contemporary jazz saxophonists. Potter made his début as a leader back in 1992 and has since recorded prolifically, both as a sideman and as a leader of his own groups. He has had a particularly fruitful musical relationship with Dave Holland and has appeared on several of the bassist/composer's ECM albums...
- www.thejazzmann.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Saxophonist and composer Chris Potter (born 1970) can be considered one of the world's leading contemporary jazz saxophonists. Potter made his début as a leader back in 1992 and has since recorded prolifically, both as a sideman and as a leader of his own groups. He has had a particularly fruitful musical relationship with Dave Holland and has appeared on several of the bassist/composer's ECM albums...
- www.thejazzmann.com
2013-04-26
★★★★★
The Sirens is saxophonist Chris Potter's first ECM release as a leader, a significant milestone which marks the culmination of his inexorable rise over two decades. Although he has recorded for a respectable selection of labels since his 1994 debut album, ECM is one of a select few (including Blue Note) which says something special about a musician...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Chris PotterThe SirensECM2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album If the US saxophonist Chris Potter should seem too deeply...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-02-07
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Chris PotterThe SirensECM2013 Not only is Chris Potter a virtuoso of the saxophone, but he seems able to step at will into any contemporary jazz genre and make himself at home. This is his first ECM album as leader and it comes complete with a touch of the glossy austerity that is that label's house style...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-02-02
★★★★★
Even as the young saxophonist in Red Rodney's group, Chris Potter took the music in an angular, free direction while remaining true to the bebop work that Rodney played. And Potter never changed course. Throughout a number of Criss Cross, Concord and then Verve releases, his playing remained unpredictable, even as it went to the core of the composition, straying from the melody as if considering the other possibilities set up by the music and then springing into his own explorations...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
The definitive part of any live jazz album is the first tune. On "7.5," Chris Potter roars over a standard contemporary rhythm section while Kevin Hayes busts in with a Fender Rhodes tricked out to sound like a touch-tone phone. It sounds like they're playing on two different tunes, in two different styles, recorded in two different studios. Little by little, a conversation starts to take shape. Potter and Hayes' interplay is subtle, more of a shared sense of direction than a call-and-response...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Tenor saxophonist Chris Potter's latest effort, "Traveling Mercies", takes the listener on a journey through a complex contemporary musical world that fuses straight-ahead jazz, funk, synthesized backgrounds, and retro sounds. It also benefits from the superb playing of its supporting cast, particularly drummer Bill Steward and guest guitarist John Scofield...
- www.jazzreview.com
2010-08-23
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