Chris Potter! No, no not the actor! . Chris Potter is an American jazz saxophonist 🎷🎶, composer,🎤🎼🎹🎶 and multi-instrumentalist. His main instrument is tenor sax, but he also performs on soprano and alto saxes, bass clarinet, flutes, guitar🎸, and piano.Potter came to prominence as a sideman with trumpeter Red Rodney, before stints with drummer Paul Motian, bassist Dave Holland, trumpeter Dave Douglas and others.

He played his first professional jazz gig on alto sax at age thirteen✨🎷. He developed a devoted local following while performing with Johnny Helms and Terry Rosen. After leaving Columbia upon his graduation from Dreher High School, Potter attended college in New York City, first at the New School and later at the Manhattan School of Music🎷✨💕. In New York he began performing with Red Rodney.His 2006 album Underground, on which he records with an electric, more “groove”-based ensemble featuring Craig Taborn on keyboard 🎹, Wayne Krantz or Adam Rogers on guitar🎸; and Nate Smith on drums, was followed by Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard with Rogers on all six of its tracks.

He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for his work on the Joanne Brackeen album Pink Elephant Magic. His 2004 album Lift: Live at Village Vanguard was named one of the year’s ten best jazz recordings by Fred Kaplan of Slate.Potter has appeared the Down Beat Critic’s and Reader’s Polls and named Rising Star for Best Tenor Saxophonist ✨in 2004,2005, 2006 and 2007. He was honored as Tenor Saxophonist ✨of the Year 2013 by the Jazz Journalists Association.

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