''Vertigo'' is the seventh studio album by

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saxophonist Chris Potter, released on the

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label in 1998.Concord Records Album Entry
accessed January 9, 2017 It features Potter with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Billy Drummond. Tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano appears on three tracks.

Reception

The

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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". '' 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".Adler, D
All About Jazz Review
September 1, 1998

Track listing

All compositions by Chris Potter # "Shiva" − 8:05 # "Vertigo" − 8:27 # "Long Walk, Short Pier" − 8:07 # "Act III, Scene I" − 3:38 # "Fishy" − 6:31 # "This Will Be" − 7:01 # "Almost Home" − 5:49 # "Modeen's Mood" − 9:32 # "Wake Up" − 5:59

Personnel

* Chris Potter -

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Kurt Rosenwinkel −

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* Scott Colley −

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* Billy Drummond -

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* Joe Lovano − tenor saxophone (tracks 3, 6 & 8)

References

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