Bob Porter

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Bob Porter (born June 20, 1940 in Wellesley , Massachusetts , † April 10, 2021 in Northvale , New Jersey ) was an American record producer , discographer , author and radio presenter . He became known for the republication of numerous classic blues and jazz recordings; in 2009 he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame for this .

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Porter has produced over 200 albums of jazz and blues music since the 1960s, initially as a reissue producer for Savoy Records from 1975-80 , and from 1986-91 for Atlantic Records . He then worked for many other record labels . "The result of his meticulous efforts is the restoration of much of the indelible music of the 20th century, which has now been preserved for future generations and sounds better than ever," wrote the author of Allmusic .

In 1981 he began the radio series Portraits In Blue , a radio program with blues, rhythm & blues and soul , which ran at the WBGO station in Newark, New Jersey . In 1986 he received the WC Handy Award for his contribution to "keeping the blues alive on the radio". In total, he was nominated five times for a Grammy and won it in 1980 for his liner notes for the edition The Complete Charlie Parker at Savoy and in 1986 as producer of the re-release Atlantic Rhythm & Blues . He was also a member of the nomination committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and from 1990 one of the emcees at the Chicago Blues Festival . In 2007 he received the Willis Conover-Marian McPartland Award from the Jazz Journalists Association for outstanding performance in broadcasting.

As a writer, he has written for a number of magazines such as Down Beat and Cash Box , as well as liner notes for more than three hundred jazz and blues albums, such as Charlie Parker at Storyville . In 2016 he published Soul Jazz: Jazz in the Black Community, 1945–1975 . He also advised organizations such as the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bob Porter at AllMusic (English)
  2. ↑ Nate Chinen: Bob Porter, Eminent Producer, Broadcaster and Writer, and Pillar of WBGO, Has Died at 80. In: wbgo.org. April 10, 2021, accessed April 10, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b Portrait at Jazz88 FM ( memento from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ In the original: The result of his painstaking efforts is the restoration of much of the 20th century's most indelible music, now preserved for future generations and sounding better than ever before.
  5. ↑ a b Biographical information in the Blues Hall of Fame ( Memento from August 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ JJA Awards winner in the 2000s
personal data
SURNAME Porter, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz producer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellesley , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Northvale , New Jersey