Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Little left California to attend Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota. Upon graduating with a degree in political science and French, Little moved across the river to Minneapolis and cofounded the successful jazz sextet, The Motion Poets. He has recorded three CDs with that ensemble and has been featured as a soloist on numerous recordings for other groups including I.C.E. (Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble) and Big Walter Smith blues band.     Besides being an elite saxophonist, Little is also an excellent composer. In 1998, Little was the youngest recipient and only jazz artist selected by The American Composers Forum to receive the prestigious McKnight Fellowship. In 1999 he was awarded a State Arts Board Fellowship. Little has toured to major jazz venues and festivals throughout the United States including The Knitting Factory (New York), Blue Room (Kansas City), Cafe 290 (Atlanta), Discover Jazz Festival (Vermont), Hot House (Chicago), The San Jose Jazz Festival (California), and many more. As a guest artist, he has taught master classes from coast to coast including at Oberlin Conservatory, Northern Illinois University, University of Missouri, Drake University, and Amherst College. Since 1996 he has also been director of The Motion Poets Summer Jazz Workshop, a program that teaches jazz and small group improvisation skills to aspiring young musicians. This successful program has been awarded grants by both the Minneapolis Office of Cultural Affairs and The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council.