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3 unusual facts about Tommy Potter


Bird Gets the Worm

This composition appears on Cool Bird, a compilation of 1947 recordings featuring Bird accompanied by Miles Davis (trumpet), Duke Jordan (piano), Tommy Potter (bass) and Max Roach (drums), all of whom have a solo on this track.

Bouncing with Bud

Powell played the theme under the debut title "Bouncing with Bud" on 9 August 1949 at the Blue Note Jazz Club with Sonny Rollins, Fats Navarro, Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes, for a recording which is often wrongly thought to be the original.

Tommy Potter

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



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