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Charlie Porter
Birth nameCharles William Porter
GenresJazz, classical
Occupation(s)Musician, bandleader, composer, Music educator
InstrumentTrumpet
Years active1996-present
LabelsOrigin Records, PHP Records
WebsiteOfficial 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

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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

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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

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As leader

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  • Charlie Porter (PHP, 2018)
  • Immigration Nation (Origin, 2019)

As sideman

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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

With Anthony Coleman

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]

Publications

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  • Sound-World Duets, 2015[25]

Awards

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  • 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

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