Chris Potter will toy with you: He'd transcribed and memorized Parker's work by age 13
San Diego Reader
By DAVE GOOD
Imagine the world Chris Potter saw when he stepped into the role of Next New Jazz Tenor Saxophonist. He was 18 when he broke out in New York and by then there was virtually no note left unplayed, no idea left undeveloped, no melodic or harmonic structures that had yet to be explored. His predecessors, a mostly male fraternity, were some of the brightest creative minds that jazz music has ever seen, and they themselves had spent countless hours toiling away at creating a new jazz saxophone language — names like John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins and Michael Brecker.
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