Alexey Popov is a Russian musician from St. Petersburg, saxophonist, composer and arranger. He is one of the leading jazz saxophonists in Russia, as well as the leader of the bands Doo-Bop Sound, Lera Gehner Band, Lera Gehner – Alexey Popov project, SPb Funk Alliance feat. Pyotr Ivshin, Four & More, and Alexey Popov Quartet.

Popov is the winner of the 42^nd Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland, 2008) with the band Doo-Bop Sound, and a winner at jazz festivals in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Estonia, as well as a number of Russian festivals.

Born on September 8^th, 1970 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), he graduated from Children's Musical School in the clarinet class and from Leningrad Music School named after Mussorgsky in the saxophone class (1993, class of Master G. L. Holstein). With the New Band, he worked for a year on the American cruise liner Commodore Hotel, which was located in St. Petersburg as a hotel. Since 1994, he began playing in various jazz bands in St. Petersburg. From 1994 to 1996, he collaborated with Natalia Platitsina and the band 07. In 1996, he played in the punk rock band NOM, participated in the recording of the CD called "Vo Imya Razuma" (In the Name of the Reason), and had a two-month European tour.

The first acid jazz band Flip Fantasia was organized by Popov in 1995 together with bass guitarist and like-minded musician Boris Mazhorov. In 1997, Alexey Popov organized the acid funk band Doo-Bop Sound, with which he toured many Russian and foreign jazz festivals, in particular in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and Switzerland. From 2000 to 2007, 4 CDs were recorded with this band.

From 1998 to 2003, he studied at St. Petersburg University of Culture and Arts, from which he also graduated. He worked at this university as a saxophone teacher from 2005 to 2019.

In 2002, together with singer Lera Gehner, he created the project Lera Gehner Band (Popov was the author of all original arrangements of the album), with which he also toured many festivals in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, as well as in Hungary and Finland. The first CD, Today I'm Part of You, Dear… (2004), received a great response from the audience.

In 2003, Alexey Popov created the mainstream jazz project Four & More and began performing with it at club venues in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

In 2004, the first CD of Alexey Popov and Four & More was released, and in 2007, the DVD Live In Surgut from the Surgut Jazz Festival was released.

He participated in D. Kramer's (Russian jazz keyboardist and composer) project Snezhny Jazz (Snow Jazz) in 2006. The following year, he participated in a tour with Lera Gehner Blues Band in Siberia.

In 2008, at the invitation of keyboardist Alexey Podymkin, he took part in the Russian-American project Band Burrage with American drummer Ronnie Barrasch and participated in a tour of Russia.

At the invitation of Claude Nobs, on July 4^th and 5^th, 2008, he participated with the Doo-Bop Sound band at the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland).

In 2009, he produced and wrote all the music and arrangements for the new CD Flora & Fauna of St. Petersburg singer Lera Gehner.

Alexey Popov repeatedly participated as a soloist in A. Kalvarsky's symphonic jazz projects (2007, 2009, 2011), and performed on a Russian club tour with the Dutch-American blues project Mama's Bad Boys.

In 2010–2011, he recorded a solo album "All Inclusive," which includes his original compositions from many years.

In 2010, Popov played with Randy Brecker in the project of Andrei Kondakov at the Hermitage Festival in St. Petersburg.

In May 2010, the last tour of the Doo-Bop Sound band took place in Murmansk.

In 2011, he took part in the organization of the jazz part of the celebration of St. Petersburg's Anniversary, and performed with the American trumpeter Arturo Sandoval.

In July 2011, Alexey participated with Lera Gehner in the Black Sea Jazz international jazz festival in Batumi (Georgia), where he performed on the same stage with Macy Gray, Yellowjackets, and DJ Logic.

In 2013, at the invitation of Leonid Vintskevich (Russian jazz keyboardist and composer), together with Lera Gehner, he took part in the Ural tour of closed cities Jazz Territory.

In 2014, he began working on Lera Gehner's original album Look Into My Soul, for which he wrote the music and arrangements. The album was released in 2017.

In 2015, together with Lera Gehner, he was invited to the Saaremäe Opera Festival (Estonia), where he took part as a member of the Dream Big Band.

In August 2015, he took part in the Velikiy Novgorod Jazz Festival.

In 2018 and 2019, there were presentations of the "Look Into My Soul" program at the Alexey Kozlov Club and Forte club in Moscow, as well as a performance at the Usadba Jazz Festival.

In 2019, Alexey Popov created the arrangements of Russian Civil War songs "Krasnye Ritmy" (Red Rhythms). In 2021, the Moscow company Art-Beat released Alexey Popov's CD "Proletarian Jazz Orchestra 'Red Rhythms.'"

In July 2019, he performed as a member of a trio at the "Jazz at the Old Fortress" festival in Novokuznetsk. In September, he took part in the Rostov-on-Don Jazz Festival along with Lera Gehner.

2021 — new CD release "Red Rhythms" from the Art Beat Music label.

2022 — new double CD release "Doo Bop Sound – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival."

2022 — new CD release "Affordable Luxury."

2022 — Yaroslavl Jazz Festival.

2022 — Sochi Jazz Festival.

2023 — Jazz festival in Velikiy Novgorod.

2024 — I St. Petersburg Jazz Festival.

2025 — II St. Petersburg Jazz Festival.

2025 — Jazz Province Festival (Kursk).

2025 — concerts at Esse Jazz Club (Rostov-on-Don).