| Vertigo | ||||
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| Studio album by the Chris Potter Quartet | ||||
| Released | August 4, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | April 9–10, 1998 | |||
| Venue | Sony Studios, NYC | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 63:09 | |||
| Label | Concord CCD-4843-2 | |||
| Producer | Allen Farnham | |||
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Vertigo is the seventh studio album by jazz saxophonist Chris Potter, released on the Concord label in 1998. [1] [2] It features Potter with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Billy Drummond. Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano appears on three tracks.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [4] |
The AllMusic review by David R. Adler stated: "Vertigo is Potter's most mature and expressive work to date. ... Vertigo reveals Potter as a player and composer with an uncommonly personal vision". [3]
All About Jazz correspondent Jack Bowers observed that "all of the songs on Vertigo, Potter's fifth date under his own name for Concord Jazz, were composed by the 27-year-old South Carolinian, and none of them, to these ears, serves as more than a convenient springboard for improvisation ... if I were more enamored of Potter's still-developing prowess as a composer, the session would receive more than a lukewarm endorsement". [5]
All compositions by Chris Potter
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