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Chris Potter Underground Orchestra at Jazz Standard

Courtesy of ECM records | Posted on January 15, 2015

Where

Jazz Standard
116 East 27th Street
New York, NY
Map
212-576-2232

When

Tue, January 27, 2015
7:30 pm

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About

For this special Jazz Standard engagement, saxophonist Chris Potter leads an expanded version of his supercharged Underground band augmented by a string quartet. It’s a new direction for the ECM record­ing artist and longtime member of Pat Metheny’s Unity Band, who has released over fifteen albums as a leader and performed with a staggering list of major artists ranging from Dave Holland to Steely Dan. In the Down Beat 2014 readers’ poll, Potter was voted the Number One saxopho­nist in jazz. “There are moments, in the tumble of a typical improvisation, when Chris Potter seems to be embarked on a hero’s journey,” wrote The New York Times’ Nate Chinen in his review of a 2011 per­formance...

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