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Chriss Style [... more]
Gary Kennedy, Ekrano: I wasnt overwhelmed by Moving In until one night -- after I had listened to it enough times to write a review -- it was playing in the background as I was doing the dishes, and I found myself constantly stopping to listen to the marvelous playing throughout. I was so taken with the music that the dishwater got cold. Later I tried listening in my car, but I ended up paying more attention to the music than to the road and so ejected it, for safetys sake. Ive decided that any music compelling enough to pull me away from whatever Im doing has a strength of character deserving of high praise.
John Corbett, Down Beat: When I first heard Potter on the radio a few years back, his supple tenor knocked me out. A stellar mainstreamer with his own brain, a taste for the edge and a really great sound! Thats a combination not to be taken lightly.
Howard Reich, Down Beat: Potter ... merges the energy of bebop with novel harmonies, unusual scales, unpredictable rhythms and unflinching use of dissonance .... successively more audacious use of harmony, modes and odd melodic intervals.
MusicHound: The more you listen to the apparently mild-mannered saxophonist, the more you hear his music is full of the unexpected.
Thomas Conrad, Down Beat: Potter [plays] with a forthright, dead-center tone, and always sounds like he is inventing. His work is remarkably free of clichés and default licks, and his boundless chops let the listener just sit back and relax.
Basically, Chris doesnt crank it out like a machine -- he is The Sound of Surprise, which is what jazz is supposed to be all about.
REMINDER: all this is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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