Bobby Porcelli
Roberto "Bobby" Porcelli (born December 16, 1937 in New York City ) is an American jazz saxophonist and flutist, whom TS Monk described as one of the most underrated alto saxophonists of all time .
Live and act
Porcelli was promoted to salsa trombonist Barry Rogers after high school . He took flute lessons from Harold Bennett, studied at Columbia University in New York and - influenced by Paul Desmond - initially played the alto saxophone . At the beginning of his career he was a member of the tenor saxophonist Hugo Dickens ' band , which played jazz, Latin and R&B and which also included Pete LaRoca and Larry Gales . He then worked in the New York Latin jazz scene a. a. with Sabu Martinez (with whom the first recordings were made in 1960), from 1963 with Tito Rodríguez and from 1965 with Machito . The following year he began his thirty-year association with Tito Puente , and also worked with Thelonious Monk , Sabu Martinez, Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Celia Cruz , Mongo Santamaría , Eddie Palmieri , Chico O'Farrill , Willie Colón , George Benson (1969), Joe Henderson , Cedar Walton and Bobby Watson .
In the 1970s he worked with trumpeter and arranger Don Sickler on the publication of two songbooks with transcriptions of the solos of John Coltrane and Joe Henderson. In the 1980s he recorded two albums under his own name for the Italian label Splas (h) ( Bursting 1986 and Rising 1989), on which the trumpeter Flavio Boltro also participated; from the 1990s he worked with TS Monk. In the field of jazz he was involved in 76 recording sessions between 1960 and 2013, among others with Charli Persip , Kevin Mahogany , Don Sickler, The Bronx Horns around Ray Vega, Mark Murphy , Cecila Coleman and Tina May . In 1988 he worked as a session musician with the Talking Heads ( Naked ). In 2002 he recorded the album Hope Is in the Air - The Music of Elmo Hope ( Origin Records ) with the New Stories Trio .
Web links
- Bobby Porcelli at Allmusic (English)
- Bobby Porcelli at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.local802afm.org/2014/06/music-in-his-blood/
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 17, 2014)
- ↑ http://originarts.com/artists/artist.php?Artist_ID=83
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Porcelli, Bobby |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Porcelli, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |