Chris Potter (b. 1971) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He played his first professional jazz gig on alto sax ar age thirteen and has now released over 15 albums as a leader and performed as a sideman on more than 150 CDs with many leading musicians including Red Rodney, Pat Metheny, Marian McPartland, Patricia Barber, Kenny Wheeler and many more. In the December, 2014 issue of Down Beat, which featured the results of the annual readers poll,…
Chris Potter (b. 1971) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist. He played his first professional jazz gig on alto sax ar age thirteen and has now released over 15 albums as a leader and performed as a sideman on more than 150 CDs with many leading musicians including Red Rodney, Pat Metheny, Marian McPartland, Patricia Barber, Kenny Wheeler and many more. In the December, 2014 issue of Down Beat, which featured the results of the annual readers poll, Potter was named the number one tenor saxophonist in the world. May 2015