Chris Potter: "It Could Happen to You"

2016 New Trier Jazz Festival
Chris Potter with the NIU Rhythm Section

[@AweL3ss]

this was a sick concert

[@dawsonredenius]

Yessir, I was there!

[@haroldfrank83]

Oh!! I wish "it could happen to me" :)

[@OrcaTrumpet]

It could

[@obaajamu7706]

Christ Potter!

[@calebpieper2987]

i was there!!!!

[@AweL3ss]

SAME!

[@JonathanArcangel]

1:18

[@JonathanArcangel]

1:57

[@JonathanArcangel]

2:35

[@saldanaagael]

lmao you know whats good

[@JonathanArcangel]

LOL I was transcribing this a year ago! @@saldanaagael

[@vecernicek2]

Is it Dave Frank at the πano?

[@UkuleleAversion]

Looks like it.

[@ericliang4744]

looks like it, doesn't sound like it though

[@paxwallacejazz]

That pianist is embarrassed I know how he feels this tune is steep (like many Van Heusen tunes)thats why he doesn't jump in and plays so short and scrambles through his solo and the bassist just plays the melody .

[@blueyedboymrdeath]

What do you mean by "steep"?

[@paxwallacejazz]

@@blueyedboymrdeath ah the chord changes makes alot of demands harmonically on the improvisor.

[@blueyedboymrdeath]

@@paxwallacejazz I don't think the pianist is "embarrassed." I can hear that he clearly knows his way around this standard, but considering that Potter is a featured guest soloist, the pianist doesn't feel it's necessary to take 8 or however many choruses himself, as did Potter. Granted, he may not have as much to say as Potter, who is a beast. As for the tune, it's not a particularly "steep" standard at all IMO, compared to something like George Shearing's "Conception" or Coltrane's "26-2". A nice contrafact on "It Could Happen to You" is Dexter Gordon's "Fried Bananas", by the way.

[@babinm]

@@blueyedboymrdeath fried bananas tad dameron?

[@kpoudavoff]

@@babinm Dexter Gordon

[@Martincyborg]

looks like a rather uncomfortable learning process for the rythm section. The lack of challenging response from the other three seems to leave chris poter a little uninspired, going through the motions. But hey, even when he is just going through the motions he is such an amazing voice.

[@user-ye6ql7mh1i]

he wasn't trying to be mean, but I see where you're coming from martin. chris potter is just THAT advanced, he makes everyone playing around him seem less superior

[@blueyedboymrdeath]

Inasmuch as it's a pickup rhythm section, they back Potter competently enough, while he shows off his rather frightening chops. If it was a whole set, one might have heard more musical back and forth. But your comment reminds me of a Lee Konitz date I heard years ago, with a young local backup trio that was more inspired by the modal stylings of McCoy and Trane. That was a very bad fit, and didn't gel at all.