Charlie Porter (trumpeter)
Charlie Porter | |
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Birth name | Charles William Porter |
Genres | Jazz, classical |
Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader, composer, Music educator |
Instrument | Trumpet |
Years active | 1996-present |
Labels | Origin Records, PHP Records |
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 has recorded nine albums, one of which Absolution was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002,[14][15] and another Mix, Bach Reinvented which one 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
- Kundun: Music from the Original Soundtrack (Nonesuch, 1997)
- Aguas Da Amazonia (Orange Mountain, 2017)
With Absolute Ensemble
- Chamber Symphonies: Adams, Schoenberg (CCn'C, 1999)
- Absolute Mix (CCn’C, 2000)
- Absolution (Enja, 2000)
- Absolute Fix (Enja Nova, 2002)
- Absolute Zappa (2007)
- Absolute Zawinul (Intuition, 2009)
- Arabian Nights: Live at Town Hall NYC (Enja, 2011)
- Bach Re-Invented (Sony Classical, 2013)
With Paquito D'Rivera
- Habanera (Enja, 2000)
With Tristan Murail
- Winter Fragments (æon, 2006 )
With Billy Martin
- Starlings (Tzadik, 2006)
With Anthony Coleman
- Pushy Blueness (Tzadik, 2006)
With Russ Spiegel
- Transplants (Ruzztone, 2009)
With Majid Khaliq
- The Basilisk (2010)
- Sound of a Flower (2018)
With Chuck Israels
- Joyful Noise (Soulpatch, 2015)
- Garden of Delights (Dot Time, 2016)
- Concerto Peligroso (Dot Time, 2017)
- Bass Intentions (Soulpatch, 2019)
With Alan Jones
- Storyline (2015)
With Derek Hines
- The Long Journey Home (2017)
With Various
- Babylon Berlin Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (BMG, 2017)
With Joyce DiDonato[24]
- Songplay (Erato, 2019)
Publications
- Sound-World Duets, 2015[25]
Awards
- 1st Place in Juilliard Quadrennial Trumpet Concerto Competition, 1996[26]
- 2nd Place The International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition, 1998, 1999
- 1st Place The National Trumpet Competition, Classical Solo Division, 1999[27]
- 1st Place The National Trumpet Competition, Jazz Division, 2000[28]
- 2019, Grammy Award for Songplay
References
- ^ "Charlie Porter | Album Discography". AllMusic.
- ^ "Charlie Porter - Trumpet player". www.trumpetland.com.
- ^ "Charlie Porter". GRAMMY.com. 5 February 2020.
- ^ Messman, Lauren (2020-01-26). "2020 Grammy Winners: The Complete List". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- ^ "Official Website of PHP Records". Mysite.
- ^ Records, Origin. "OA2 Records Review - Charlie Porter - Immigration Nation". originarts.com.
- ^ Records, Origin. "OA2 Records Review - Charlie Porter - Immigration Nation". originarts.com.
- ^ "Artist Spotlight: Charlie Porter at Montavilla Brew Works". Montavilla Jazz. 4 August 2019.
- ^ "Clark College Jazz Band to feature Charlie Porter at spring concert". clarkcountytoday.com. 21 May 2019.
- ^ Erickson, Kira. "Music camp instructors return to play jazz concert". The Northern Light.
- ^ "CJC: Charlie Porter w David Rosenblatt (New York)". Aucklandnz.com.
- ^ "Charlie Porter Quintet in an intimate house concert setting!". Meetup (in French).
- ^ "Charlie Porter, une nation d'immigrants" (in French). France Musique.
- ^ "Clark College Jazz Band to feature Charlie Porter at spring concert | ClarkCountyToday.com". clarkcountytoday.com. 21 May 2019.
- ^ "Charlie Porter @ The 1905". Bandsintown.
- ^ "Mat Fieldes". Rocktopia – On Tour This Spring!.
- ^ LORI, CROUCH. "ARTISTS TO DISPLAY WORKS IN PROGRESS". Sun-Sentinel.com.
- ^ "Orchestra Member Bios". Chuck Israels Jazz Orchestra.
- ^ "Kiwis join US trumpeter Charlie Porter in bringing 21st century jazz to Nelson". Stuff. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- ^ Jazz, All About. "Charlie Porter member page on All About Jazz". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- ^ "c | Chamber Music America". www.chamber-music.org.
- ^ Records, Origin. "OA2 Records Review". originarts.com.
- ^ "Portland State College of the Arts: School of Music & Theater | Music & Theater Faculty". www.pdx.edu.
- ^ "DISCOGRAPHY". Charlie Porter. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- ^ "Sound-World Duets: 10 Harmonic Duet-Etudes with Play-along Recording (digital download)". Porter House Press. 27 September 2015.
- ^ "2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition". Issuu.
- ^ "Charlie Porter Quartet". Eventfinda.
- ^ "Volume Five: What are five books that mean a lot to you?". jerryjazzmusician.com.