Alive With Ghosts Today

by Chris Potter

Alive With Ghosts Today cover art

Recorded during a intensive three-day session in March 2025, the album highlights the saxophonist's mastery of extended improvisational structures. The arrangements favor a tight quartet dynamic, allowing for spontaneous interplay between the woodwinds and the polyrhythmic foundations provided by the rhythm section. It serves as a meditation on the persistence of musical legacy and the 'ghosts' of past jazz innovators influencing modern technical standards.

Genres

  • Neo-Bop
  • Post-Bop

Tracklist

  1. Alive With Ghosts Today 1
  2. Osawatomie Brown
  3. The Heavens In Scarlet
  4. Sister Annie
  5. This Earth Would Have No Charms For Me
  6. Into Africa
  7. Mine Eyes
  8. Alive With Ghosts Today 2