Chris Potter in Munich: When the synapses fire – culture
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Artur Rubinstein once coined the term “Elephant Concerto”, which demands extremes from the soloist. What the saxophonist Chris Potter delivered with his quartet in Munich’s Unterfahrt on Wednesday was such a high degree of fullness and perfection. So overwhelming, it’s like having just heard Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the emotional pressure of a gospel church service. When Potter takes off from a theme and into improvisation, one cannot shake the suspicion that synapses are firing at a rate not previously foreseen by evolution.
