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Birth name
  
Charles Thomas Potter

Genres
  
Jazz

Role
  
Musician

Name
  
Tommy Potter

Instruments
  
Double bass


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Born
  
September 21, 1918 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (
1918-09-21
)

Died
  
March 1, 1988, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Albums
  
The Imp, Dig - EP, These Foolish Things

Associated acts
  
Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Billy Eckstine

Similar People
  
Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Al Haig, Max Roach

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Charles Thomas "Tommy" Potter (September 21, 1918 – March 1, 1988) was a jazz double bass player, best known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's "classic quintet", with Miles Davis, between 1947 and 1950.

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Born in Philadelphia, Potter had first played with Parker in 1944, in Billy Eckstine's band with Dizzy Gillespie, Lucky Thompson and Art Blakey.

Potter also performed and recorded with many other notable jazz musicians, including Earl Hines, Artie Shaw, Bud Powell, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Max Roach, Eddie Heywood, Tyree Glenn, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Buck Clayton and Charles Lloyd.

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Discography

  • Tommy Potter's Hard Funk, (East-West, 1956)

    • As sideman

    With Gene Ammons

  • All Star Sessions (Prestige, 1950-55 [1956])

    • With Al Cohn

  • Al Cohn's Tones (Savoy, 1950 [1956])

    • With Tommy Flanagan

  • The Tommy Flanagan Trio (Moodsville, 1960)

    • With Jimmy Forrest

  • Out of the Forrest (Prestige, 1961)
  • Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest (Prestige, 1961)
  • Most Much! (Prestige, 1961)
  • Soul Street (New Jazz, 1962)

    • With Stan Getz

  • Stan Getz Quartets (Prestige, 1949-50 [1955])
  • The Complete Roost Recordings (Blue Note, 1950–54 [1997])

    • With Willis Jackson

  • Please Mr. Jackson (Prestige, 1959)
  • Cool "Gator" (Prestige, 1959)
  • Blue Gator (Prestige, 1959)
  • Together Again! (Prestige, 1959 [1965]) - with Jack McDuff
  • Together Again, Again (Prestige, 1959 [1966]) - with Jack McDuff

    • With Cecil Payne

  • Patterns of Jazz (Savoy, 1956)

    • With Freddie Redd

  • Freddie Redd in Sweden (1956)

    • With Sonny Stitt

  • Kaleidoscope (Prestige, 1950 [1957])
  • Stitt's Bits (Prestige, 1950 [1958])
  • Stitt in Orbit (Roost, 1962)

    • With Joe Williams

  • Together (Roulette, 1961) with Harry "Sweets" Edison

    • With Phil Woods

  • Four Altos (Prestige, 1957) - with Gene Quill, Sahib Shihab and Hal Stein

    • References

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