Chris Potter Underground Orchestra

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While he is, perhaps, best-known as a reed and woodwind multi-instrumentalist of tremendous power and versatility—the torch-bearer and logical successor, even, to the late, great Michael Brecker—Chris Potter has also demonstrated remarkable breadth as a bandleader and composer. It's hard to imagine that it's been only 23 years since the 44 year-old first came onto the scene with Red Rodney and began a career as a leader soon after with Presenting Chris Potter (Criss Cross, 1994)—the first of what is, with the release of Imaginary Cities, a substantial discography now numbering 18. But for every hard-blowing session like Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard (Sunnyside, 2004) there's been a Song for Anyone (Sunnyside, 2007), a broad-minded recording for string trio, woodwinds trio and guitar-based rhythm section; and for every incendiary studio blowing date like Critical Mass ( Dare2, 2006), with Dave Holland's longstanding quintet, there's Transatlantic (Red Dot, 2011), an ambitious large ensemble date with Denmark's DR Big Band. Still, Potter's career took a major leap forward when he debuted his first album as a leader for Munich's venerable ECM Records. The Sirens (2013), where he deserted the electric energy of his relatively longstanding Underground group for an all- acoustic quintet date that, in its inclusion of two keyboardists—Underground's Craig Taborn, here solely on acoustic piano, and David Virelles, a relative newcomer to the scene, on prepared piano, celeste and

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Imaginary Cities

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Sonic Universe. Nu Jazz plus avant-garde Euro Jazz: Transcending the boundaries of jazz with experimental takes on tradition. [SomaFM]

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Sonic Universe: Nu Jazz plus avant-garde Euro Jazz: Transcending the boundaries of jazz with experimental takes on tradition. [SomaFM]

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SomaFM - Sonic Universe

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Sonic Universe

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Imaginary Cities (24 bit)

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Imaginary Cities (2015-01-13) [2015] [CD]

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2015-Imaginary Cities

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Imaginary Cities (2015-01-13) [2015-01-13] [CD]

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Imaginary Cities (24 bits)

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