Charlie Porter (trumpeter) explained

Birth Name:Charles William Porter
Genre:Jazz, classical
Instrument:Trumpet
Occupation:Musician, bandleader, composer, Music educator
Label:Origin Records, PHP Records
Years Active:1996-present
Website:Official website

Charles William Porter (born May 10, 1978 - Boynton Beach, Florida)[1] [2] known professionally as Charlie Porter is an American trumpeter, composer and music educator based in Portland, Oregon. Porter has been awarded a Grammy Award at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for his collaboration on the album Songplay, in 2020.[3] [4] He has recorded many albums as a side musician, and has released two albums as a leader.[5] [6] [7]

Biography

Charlie Porter was born in Boynton Beach, Florida. He studied trumpet at the Dreyfoos School of the Arts, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and was a Fulbright Scholar at the Paris Conservatory, conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Paris.[8] [9] His mentors include Wynton Marsalis, Mark Gould, Raymond Mase, Guy Touvron, and Laurie Frink.[10] [11] [12]

Career

Porter started in the New York jazz scene in the 1990s while studying classical music under the trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis at the Juilliard School.[13] He is a long-standing member of the Absolute Ensemble, directed by Kristjan Järvi, with which he has recorded nine albums, one of which Absolution was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002,[14] [15] and another Mix, Bach Reinvented which won the coveted German Critics Award in 2000.[16] Porter is currently known to be a frequent member of several ensembles, including the Charlie Porter Quintet, The Alan Jones Sextet and the Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra.[17] [18] He has toured as both a band-leader and a side-man as both a jazz and classical musician, as well as acting in the soloist and chamber music scene.[19] Porter was the first musician to ever be awarded 1st Prize in the National Trumpet Competition in both Jazz and Classical and he reached the semi-final round in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition hosted in Los Angeles.[20] In 2005, as a composer, Porter was the recipient of Chamber Music America and The Dorris Duke Foundation's New Works commissioning grant in 2005.[21] As a bandleader, he released his debut self-titled album, Charlie Porter, in 2018 under PHP Records, and Immigration Nation in 2019 under Origin Records, to critical acclaim in major publications, including DownBeat and Jazziz.[22] Porter currently is an adjunct professor of jazz trumpet at Portland State University.[23]

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Philip Glass

With Absolute Ensemble

With Paquito D'Rivera

With Tristan Murail

With Billy Martin

With Anthony Coleman

With Russ Spiegel

With Majid Khaliq

With Chuck Israels

With Alan Jones

With Derek Hines

With Various

With Joyce DiDonato[24]

Publications

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Charlie Porter Album Discography . AllMusic . en-us.
  2. Web site: Charlie Porter - Trumpet player . www.trumpetland.com.
  3. Web site: Charlie Porter . GRAMMY.com . en . 5 February 2020.
  4. News: Messman. Lauren. 2020 Grammy Winners: The Complete List. 2020-01-26. The New York Times. 2020-02-16. 0362-4331.
  5. Web site: Official Website of PHP Records . Mysite . en.
  6. Web site: Records . Origin . OA2 Records Review - Charlie Porter - Immigration Nation . originarts.com . en.
  7. Web site: Records . Origin . OA2 Records Review - Charlie Porter - Immigration Nation . originarts.com . en.
  8. Web site: Artist Spotlight: Charlie Porter at Montavilla Brew Works . Montavilla Jazz . 4 August 2019.
  9. Web site: Clark College Jazz Band to feature Charlie Porter at spring concert . clarkcountytoday.com . 21 May 2019.
  10. Web site: Erickson . Kira . Music camp instructors return to play jazz concert . The Northern Light . 30 October 2019 . en.
  11. Web site: CJC: Charlie Porter w David Rosenblatt (New York) . Aucklandnz.com . en-nz.
  12. Web site: Charlie Porter Quintet in an intimate house concert setting! . Meetup . fr.
  13. Web site: Charlie Porter, une nation d'immigrants . 10 November 2019 . . fr.
  14. Web site: Clark College Jazz Band to feature Charlie Porter at spring concert ClarkCountyToday.com . clarkcountytoday.com . 21 May 2019.
  15. Web site: Charlie Porter @ The 1905 . Bandsintown.
  16. Web site: Mat Fieldes . Rocktopia – On Tour This Spring!.
  17. Web site: LORI . CROUCH . ARTISTS TO DISPLAY WORKS IN PROGRESS . Sun-Sentinel.com. 23 February 1995 .
  18. Web site: Orchestra Member Bios . Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra.
  19. Web site: Kiwis join US trumpeter Charlie Porter in bringing 21st century jazz to Nelson. Stuff. 13 February 2020 . 2020-02-16.
  20. Web site: Charlie Porter member page on All About Jazz. Jazz. All About. All About Jazz. 2020-02-16.
  21. Web site: c Chamber Music America . www.chamber-music.org.
  22. Web site: Records . Origin . OA2 Records Review . originarts.com . en.
  23. Web site: Portland State College of the Arts: School of Music & Theater Music & Theater Faculty . www.pdx.edu . 2020-02-20 . 2019-08-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190815034625/https://www.pdx.edu/music/faculty-staff . dead .
  24. Web site: DISCOGRAPHY. Charlie Porter. 2020-02-16.
  25. Web site: Sound-World Duets: 10 Harmonic Duet-Etudes with Play-along Recording (digital download) . Porter House Press . en . 27 September 2015.
  26. Web site: 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition . Issuu . 6 December 2013 . en.
  27. Web site: Charlie Porter Quartet . Eventfinda . 27 February 2020 . en.
  28. Web site: Volume Five: What are five books that mean a lot to you? . jerryjazzmusician.com.

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