Chris Potter “Alive With Ghosts Today”

Chris Potter was born in Chicago and grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. As a teenager he moved to New York, where he joined the band of bebop trumpeter Red Rodney. He went on to play in Pat Metheny's Unity Band and with drummer Paul Motian.

Under his own name he has recorded for ECM, including the album The Sirens, and he led the electric group Underground with guitarist Adam Rogers, keyboardist Craig Taborn and drummer Nate Smith. His playing pairs long, harmonically dense lines with a warm, full tenor tone, and he writes most of the material his groups perform.