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...Melodies are clearly stated and roots made clear, but each composition is recast in a contemporary jazz aesthetic with improvisation at its core....
...Think Netflix’s Sex Education with a hint of Harry Potter’s Moaning Myrtle. The evening’s discovery is Israeli male soprano Maayan Licht as Amor....
...“Cantaloupe Island” ended the set, with Hancock on keytar adding new melodies and reordered beats....
...Potter structured his uninterrupted 90-minute set on four preset pieces, yet there were times when melodies seemed created on the fly....
...The influence of fusion pioneers Weather Report and Steps Ahead is evident, but the melodies, sweeping textures and filigree details are Potter’s own, and there is plenty of state-of-the-art sax....
...There is a preponderance of yearning, romantic melodies, which can get cloying, but the selection of films goes beyond the obvious. “Sayuri’s Theme” from Memoirs of a Geisha is fragile, sensitive....
...The music reverses the pattern of “Dexter & Sinister”, opening with a curt bass line and then adding twinkling keyboard melodies....
...Redman’s lyrical thrust is as distinct from Marsalis’s romanticism as it is from Potter’s hard fusion edge....
...The opening theme twinned its plangent melody with dense, bittersweet harmonies that the band developed in a series of extended shape-shifting improvisations....
...Whether its heroine is sewing military parachutes (as in Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1943 Carmen Jones) or selling her body (Sally Potter’s unloved 2007 production for ENO), the unforgettable melodies and the...
...Hussain’s tablas chattered and whumped as bassist Dave Holland laid down a foundation of riffs and intricate rhythm; meanwhile saxophonist Chris Potter added slurs and quarter-tone melodies to his jazz finesse...
...His compositions feature plangent melodies, minor-key harmonies and pre-set patterns for bass and drums....
...Dave Holland and Eric Harland are the foundation on bass and drums, guitarist Lionel Loueke adds razor-sharp rhythm, while Chris Potter delivers astute melodies with a fine-honed technique....
...The first set progressed through angular drum and bass — “Bounce” was written by drummer Smith — and a long segue from the hectoring melody of “The Owl of Cranston” to a multi-grooved reading of “Kalypso...
...His soprano sax improvisations were at once joyous and regretful, folk melodies reminiscent of his Trollsyn period....
...There were solo flights and melodies that hovered across the pulse, intertwined duets and Potter’s beautifully nuanced piano played with a maestro’s touch....
...The Dowland Project here work in the same arena, improvising around Latin fragments and weaving in snatches of traditional melody....
...Carter’s band glided through silky originals and well-shrouded classics – “Seven Steps to Heaven” stretched by two extra bars; a modal melody gaining a flamenco shade; “My Funny Valentine” reverberating...
...That sensibility whispers throughout this exhibition like a fragile but insistent melody....
...Firstly there is a service industry for America, doing things like special effects for Harry Potter....
...Craig Taborn provides the crunchy Fender Rhodes that drives Chris Potter’s funky Underground quartet and the intense piano that knits Tim Berne’s left-field jazz into cohesion....
...You know the one: potter’s wheel, “Unchained Melody”, tempests of passion. This has been handled astutely by all concerned....
...A skitter up the keyboard cued a flutter from the drums, Potter’s soprano swooped low and a sunrise melody introduced 90 minutes of skin-tight themes and intense interplay....
...Slanted riffs slot into oblique melodies and the shifting harmonies of modal jazz set up top range solos from the likes of Chris Potter and Antonio Hart on saxes and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin....
...Watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 () was close to being an out-of-body experience....
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