Free Air and Dance Tunes

by Sam Comerford

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1.	Garrett Barry's Favourite; The Gander at the Prattie Hole; Banish Misfortune (jigs) 05:20	buy track
2.	My Lagan Love (air); Unnamed (T. Potts) (reel) 05:11	buy track
3.	The Drunken Sailor (hornpipe) 06:55	buy track
4.	The Moving Clouds (reel) 06:02	buy track

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The music of traditional Irish fiddle player Tommie Potts (1912-1988) has been a great inspiration for many years. Having grown up playing traditional music, only to leave it aside to focus on jazz and improvised music for more than 10 years, I felt compelled to return to his music, which I had always loved, but never fully explored, at the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.

The music documented in this live recording takes Potts' already radical interpretations of traditional tunes as its point of departure, and was spontaneously interpreted and improvised with in the moment.

It is the first recorded documentation of the beginnings of a return to tradition, to my past and future. There is so much in the music of Potts, and in the traditions I love, to explore, and this is only the very beginning.

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released September 30, 2022

Sam Comerford - tenor saxophone

Recorded live at Werkplaats Walter, Brussels, 20th April 2022 by Christophe Albertijn
Mixed by Sam Comerford
Saxophone setup and mouthpiece by Georg Pfister at La Soufflerie
Photograph of Sam Comerford by Chloë Delanghe

Thanks to Tommie Potts for all the music, Neil O'Loclainn, Christophe Albertijn, Werkplaats Walter, and Chloë Delanghe for all the love and support.

With support from The Arts Council of Ireland's COVID-19 Response Award

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