Chris Potter News

He's long been a musician's musician and a guitarist's guitarist-there's a reason Steely Dan 's Donald Fagen recruited him for his last solo disc, Morph the Cat , and saxophonists David Binney and Chris Potter called him up for Graylen Epicenter and Underground , respectively.

First Metheny-led band in 30 years to feature sax also embarks on 39-city summer & fall tour For the first time since his 1980 release 80/81 , guitarist Pat Metheny has recorded with a band that features tenor saxophone.

Jazz is like a blue chip stock, with consistent creativity in times good and bad, a long-term value that rewards with dividends of satisfaction.

Consensus is always the sought-after ideal in criticism. When writers can line up behind an artist and declare his or her greatness, the health of an art form is reinforced.