Release Date: 21 April 2017
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602557406610
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Release Date: 05 May 2017
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602557414738
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
For his third ECM album as a leader - released on both CD and 180g vinyl - Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle.
The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York over the past decade: keyboardist David Virelles, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who each shine in addition to the leader on multiple horns. The Dreamer Is the Dream features Potter on tenor saxophone - the instrument that has made him one of the most admired players of his generation - in the striking opener "Heart in Hand" and such album highlights as "Yasodhara," as well as on soprano sax ("Memory and Desire") and bass clarinet (the title track).
Potter is an artist who "employs his considerable technique in service of music rather than spectacle," says The New Yorker, and his composing develops in texture and atmosphere with every album. Along with his previous ECM releases, Imaginary Cities and The Sirens, he has appeared on some of the label's most acclaimed discs, including Paul Motian's classic Lost in a Dream and Dave Holland's Grammy Award-winning What Goes Around.
Personnel: Chris Potter (tenor & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, clarinet, ilimba, flute, samples), David Virelles (piano, celeste), Joe Martin (double bass), Marcus Gilmore (drums, percussion)
Description
For his third ECM album as a leader - released on both CD and 180g vinyl - Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle.
The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York over the past decade: keyboardist David Virelles, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who each shine in addition to the leader on multiple horns. The Dreamer Is the Dream features Potter on tenor saxophone - the instrument that has made him one of the most admired players of his generation - in the striking opener "Heart in Hand" and such album highlights as "Yasodhara," as well as on soprano sax ("Memory and Desire") and bass clarinet (the title track).
Potter is an artist who "employs his considerable technique in service of music rather than spectacle," says The New Yorker, and his composing develops in texture and atmosphere with every album. Along with his previous ECM releases, Imaginary Cities and The Sirens, he has appeared on some of the label's most acclaimed discs, including Paul Motian's classic Lost in a Dream and Dave Holland's Grammy Award-winning What Goes Around.
Personnel: Chris Potter (tenor & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, clarinet, ilimba, flute, samples), David Virelles (piano, celeste), Joe Martin (double bass), Marcus Gilmore (drums, percussion).
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek Quartet
John Surman
Chris Potter
Chris Potter
Chris Potter
Aziza (Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke & Eric Harland)
Aziza (feat Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke & Eric Harland)
Chris Potter
Chris Potter
