Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard

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Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
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Live album by
Chris Potter Quartet
ReleasedMay 25, 2004
RecordedDecember 13–14, 2002
Venue Village Vanguard, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length76:39
Label Sunnyside
SCC 3022
Producer Chris Potter, Louise Holland
Chris Potter chronology
Traveling Mercies
(2002)		Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard
(2004)		 Underground
(2006)

Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard is the second live album by jazz saxophonist Chris Potter, recorded December 13th & 14th, 2002 and released on the Sunnyside label in 2004. [1] It features keyboardist Kevin Hays, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Bill Stewart.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Potter and his quartet are taking the gift of post-bop jazz and moving into new territories tonally, harmonically, and yes, thankfully, lyrically. This is forward-thinking music that is full of emotion, swing, and sophistication. It is readily accessible for anyone willing to encounter it either historically or on its own terms. Lift is a sharp, tough, and streetwise record of a fine gig played in a jazz temple with aplomb and sass. It points in new directions and offers a solid portrait of the artist as not only a strident voice, but as a visionary as well". [2]

The Guardian 's John Fordham noted "Potter himself is often dazzling - particularly on two unaccompanied tenor sax overtures - though his muscular long lines and whirling ascents and descents occasionally substitute sound and fury for shape and contrast". [3]

All About Jazz correspondent John Kelman observed "While Potter's sheer technical prowess sometimes threatens to overpower his innate musicality, for the most part he makes statements that are well-conceived, developed and executed. Eschewing the more concept-laden work of his past couple of albums, Lift is a celebration of playing at its most pure". [4]

In JazzTimes Chris Kelsey wrote "tenor saxophonist Chris Potter’s Live at the Village Vanguard (Sunnyside) is, by any and all contemporary standards, a superb live album, thanks to some unruly ensemble work". [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Chris Potter except where indicated

  1. "7.5" (Bill Stewart) − 14:57
  2. "What You Wish" − 13:51
  3. "Stella by Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) − 7:16
  4. "Lift" − 11:58
  5. "Okinawa" − 9:15
  6. "Boogie Stop Shuffle Sax Intro" − 4:13
  7. "Boogie Stop Shuffle" (Charles Mingus) − 15:09

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Sunnyside Records Album Entry, accessed January 8, 2018
  2. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Chris Potter Quartet – Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Fordham, J. The Guardian Review, January 23, 2015
  4. 1 2 Kelman, J. All About Jazz Review, September 4, 2007
  5. ↑ Kelsey, C. JazzTimes Review, August 2004
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