Dave Potter Sextet - The music of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Drummer Dave Potter leads a stellar sextet playing the music of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, featuring Miguel Alvarado on tenor saxophone, Desmond Ng on trombone, Dr. Andrew Sioberg on trumpet, Daniel Kuk on piano and Rob "El Ton" Linton on bass. After honing his skills for more than 10 years with Jason Marsalis, Potter took to the road as a leader with his own ensemble with a new project featuring Jazz-flavored arrangements of modern classics. A native of North Carolina, Dave began performing with many of his elders in the RDU area at the age of 16. After relocating to Tallahassee to attend Florida State University, Dave quickly sought out Marcus Roberts as a musical mentor, an important relationship that endures today. Dave has performed with Roberts, Ellis Marsalis, Marcus Printup, Russell Gunn, Takana Miyamoto, Greg Tardy, and many others.
American jazz drummer and bandleader Art Blakey (1919 – 1990) made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine and then worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, an archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s, which he led for the next 35 years. The group was formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including numerous famous artists such as Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Donald Byrd, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw and more. Blakey was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1981. Posthumously, he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 and 2001. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

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