Chris Potter
Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard
2023 - Edition Records: EDN1214
https://www.editionrecords.com/releases/chris-potter-got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-live-at-the-village-vanguard/
https://chrispotterjazz.bandcamp.com/album/got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-live-at-the-village-vanguard

* Chris Potter  : tenor saxophone
* Craig Taborn  : piano
* Scott Colley  : bass
* Marcus Gilmore: drums

https://www.chrispottermusic.com/
https://www.craigtaborn.com/
https://www.scottcolley.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Gilmore

Recorded live by Tyler McDiarmid and Geoff Countryman at the Village Vanguard,
Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA, on February 2022.

Reviews
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By Bill Milkowski
https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/chris-potter-got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom/

The most potent and impactful tenor saxophonist of his generation, Potter made
a big splash with his 2020 lockdown album, There Is a Tide, recorded at home
with him playing all the instruments himself. Here Potter joins bassist Scott
Colley, pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Marcus Gilmore before an energized
audience at NYC’s hallowed Village Vanguard. On the 14-minute opener, a
funk-jazz re-imagining of Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “You Got to Move”
(famously covered by the Rolling Stones on 1971’s Sticky Fingers), Potter pulls
out his technically brilliant Brecker-ian chops in a Herculean display of tenor
virtuosity. The intricate and hypnotic 12/8 vehicle “Nozani Na,” an Amazonian
folk tune transcribed by Brazilian classical composer Heitor Villa-Lobos,
provides a launching pad for some heated exchanges between tenorist and
drummer. The quartet brings things down to an elegant hush on Billy Strayhorn’s
darkly beautiful “Blood Count,” then it’s off to the races on an uptempo
swinging rendition of Charlie Parker’s “Klactoveedsedstene.” Potter’s
unrestrained wailing here, along with Gilmore’s rapid-fire exchanges with the
leader, is scintillating. The title track, a gospel blues from 1929, is yet
another showcase of Potter’s breathtaking command of his instrument.

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By Chris May
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-live-at-the-village-vanguard-chris-potter-edition-records

By Ian Patterson
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-live-at-the-village-vanguard-chris-potter-edition-records__18239

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/chris-potter-got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-album-review

By Jon Turney
https://londonjazznews.com/2023/02/10/chris-potter-got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-live-at-the-village-vanguard/

By Stephen Graham
https://www.marlbank.net/posts/looking-ahead-to-got-the-keys-to-the-kingdom-a-new-vanguard-quartet-recording-from-chris-potter

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