The most potent and impactful tenor saxophonist of his era, Potter made an enormous splash along with his 2020 lockdown album, There Is a Tide, recorded at residence with him taking part in all of the devices himself. Here Potter joins bassist Scott Colley, pianist Craig Taborn, and drummer Marcus Gilmore earlier than an energized viewers at NYC’s hallowed Village Vanguard. On the 14-minute opener, a funk-jazz re-imagining of Mississippi Fred McDowell’s “You Got to Move” (famously coated by the Rolling Stones on 1971’s Sticky Fingers), Potter pulls out his technically sensible Brecker-ian chops in a Herculean show of tenor virtuosity. The intricate and hypnotic 12/8 car “Nozani Na,” an Amazonian people tune transcribed by Brazilian classical composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, supplies a launching pad for some heated exchanges between tenorist and drummer. The quartet brings issues right down to a sublime hush on Billy Strayhorn’s darkly stunning “Blood Count,” then it’s off to the races on an uptempo swinging rendition of Charlie Parker’s “Klactoveedsedstene.” Potter’s unrestrained wailing right here, together with Gilmore’s rapid-fire exchanges with the chief, is scintillating. The title monitor, a gospel blues from 1929, is one more showcase of Potter’s breathtaking command of his instrument.

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