Quick and agile, percolating and twisty, Chris Potter’s Underground was revving on all cylinders in a Saturday evening set that drew the attention of several other Monterey performers along with a good number of younger attendees.
Short takes on recent releases by Rez Abbasi (Things to Come), Coke/Marsh/Feld (It’s Possible), Jonathon Haffner (Life on Wednesday), Darryl Harper (Stories in Real Time), Arturo Stable (Call) and Marcus Strickland (Idiosyncracies).
Fresh ideas beam from every angle in Third Occasion, as the alto saxophonist leads a supple quartet of star players through a warm, reflective and instantly engaging set of closely related original works.
Dark and close, the Coffee House Gallery is particularly suited to music with an intimate intensity, and it’s often home to MJF’s more cerebral or esoteric performances. Taborn’s is textbook.
