Chris Potter / Dave Douglas / James Genus “The Ghost“

The Quartet started with the intention of performing books of contemporary jazz “tunes“ -- new “standards“ for improvisers by composers such as Steve Coleman, Michael Moore, Henry Threadgill, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Don Byron and others. After establishing a repertoire of these pieces, it became clear how difficult it would be to find a common ground among the many voices. Another difficulty was to perform them with one small ensemble with a fixed instrumentation. Original pieces eventually overwhelmed th