Steve Potts is an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 saxophonist, younger cousin of tenor saxophonist Buddy Tate

Buddy Tate

George Holmes "Buddy" Tate was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. He has been counted as one of the great tenor saxophonists of his generation and was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.He began on alto saxophone, but quickly switched to tenor making a name for himself in bands like...

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Potts studied architecture in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 and took lessons by Charles Lloyd. Afterwards he went to New York where he was student of Eric Dolphy

Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy was an American jazz alto saxophonist, flutist, and bass clarinetist. On a few occasions he also played the clarinet and baritone saxophone. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the 1960s...

 and performed with Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .- Biography :Ayers...

, Richard Davis, Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...

, Reggie Workman

Reggie Workman

Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....

, and Chico Hamilton

Chico Hamilton

Chico Hamilton , is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.-Early life through 1960s:Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California. He had a fast-track musical education in a band with Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso...

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1970 he moved to Europe to live in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. He performed with Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon

Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...

, Johnny Griffin

Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.- Early life and career :Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax...

, Slide Hampton

Slide Hampton

Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton is an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.He was a 1998 Grammy Award winner for "Best Jazz Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist", as arranger for "Cotton Tail" performed by Dee Dee Bridgewater...

, Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

, Ben Webster

Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster , a.k.a. "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young...

, Hal Singer

Hal Singer

Harold Joseph "Hal" Singer is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist.-Biography:Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Singer studied violin as a child but, as a teenager, switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice...

, Christian Escoudé

Christian Escoudé

Christian Escoudé is a jazz guitarist from France. He grew up in Angoulême and is of Romani people descent on his father's side. His father was a guitarist too and influenced by Django Reinhardt. Christian became a musician at 15 and starting in 1972 he worked in a trio with Aldo Romano. By the...

, Boulou Ferré, and Oliver Johnson. Around 1973 he met Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....

 and played in his groups for 30 years. Potts produced also film scores.

As leader

• Great Day in the Morning with Jessye Norman
  Jessye Norman
  Jessye Norman is an American opera singer. Norman is a well-known contemporary opera singer and recitalist, and is one of the highest paid performers in classical music...
  
  , 1982
• Cross Roads, 1979
• People, 1986
• Thank You for Being, 1995
• Mukta, 1998
• Pearl, 1990
• Wet Spot, 2000

As sideman

With Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....

• Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet
  Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet
  Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron and soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy released on the French America label in 1972...
  
  (America, 1972)
• The Gap (America, 1972)
• The Crust (Emanem, 1973)
• Scraps (Saravah, 1974)
• Flakes (RCA Vista, 1974)
• Dreams (Saravah, 1975)
• Raps (Adelphi, 1977)
• Follies (FMP, 1977)
• The Owl (Saravah, 1977)
• Points (Chant Du Monde, 1978)
• Stamps (Hathut, 1978)
• Troubles
  Troubles (Steve Lacy album)
  Troubles is the second album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint label. It features performances of five of Lacy's compositions by Lacy, Steve Potts, Irene Aebi, Kent Carter and Oliver Johnson.-Reception:...
  
  (Black Saint, 1979)
• The Way (Hathut, 1979)
• Tips (Hathut, 1979)
• Songs (Hathut, 1981)
• Ballets (Hathut, 1981)
• Blinks (Hathut, 1983)
• Prosepectus (Hathut, 1983)
• Futurities (Hathut, 1984)
• The Condor (Soul Note, 1985)
• The Gleam (Silkheart, 1986)
• Morning Joy (Hathut, 1986)
• Flim-Flam (Hathut, 1986)
• Live in Budapest (West Wind, 1987)
• Momentum
  Momentum (Steve Lacy album)
  Momentum is the first album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Arista Novus label. It was released in 1987 and features six of Lacy's compositions with texts by Giulia Niccolai, Herman Melville, and Brion Gysin performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson and...
  
  (Novus, 1987)
• The Window
  The Window (album)
  The Window is an album by Steve Lacy which was released on the Italian Soul Note label in 1988. It features six of Lacy's compositions, one featuring text by the poet Mary Frazee, performed by Lacy, Jean-Jacques Avenel and Oliver Johnson.-Reception:...
  
  (Novus, 1988)
• The Door
  The Door (Steve Lacy album)
  The Door is the second album by Steve Lacy to be released on the RCA Novus label. It was released in 1989 and features four of Lacy's compositions and one each by Monk, Bud Powell, Duke Ellington and George Handy performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson and...
  
  (Novus, 1989)
• Anthem
  Anthem (Steve Lacy album)
  Anthem is an album by Steve Lacy released on the Arista Novus label in 1990. It features five of Lacy's compositions with texts by Osip Mandelstam and Mary Frazee performed by Lacy, Bobby Few, Steve Potts, Jean-Jacques Avenel, John Betsh, Sam Kelly, Glenn Ferris, La Velle and Irene...
  
  (Novus, 1990)
• Itinery (Hathut, 1990)
• Live at Sweet Basil (Novus, 1991)
• We See (Hathut, 1992)
• Clangs (Hathut, 1992)
• Vespers
  Vespers (album)
  Vespers is an album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "lots of interesting tone colors and harmonies and consistently stimulating solos.....
  
  (Soul Note, 1993)
• Revenue
  Revenue (album)
  Revenue is an album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Chris Kelsey awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This music is a fine example of what happens when a visionary musician makes something extending and...
  
  (Soul Note, 1993)

External links

• http://www.stevepotts.net/