For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new
acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic
muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers
of ECM s many recordings from New York over the past decade:
keyboardist David Virelles, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus
Gilmore, who each shine in addition to the leader on multiple horns. The
Dreamer Is the Dream features Potter on tenor saxophone the instrument
that has made him one of the most admired players of his generation in
the striking opener Heart in Hand and such album highlights as
Yasodhara, as well as on soprano sax (Memory and Desire) and bass
clarinet (the title track). Potter is an artist who employs his
considerable technique in service of music rather than spectacle, says
The New Yorker, and his composing develops in texture and atmosphere
with every album. Along with his previous ECM releases, Imaginary Cities
and The Sirens, he has appeared on some of the label's most acclaimed
discs, including Paul Motian's classic Lost in a Dream and Dave
Holland's Grammy Award-winning What Goes Around.
