Porter Kilbert

Porter Kilbert (* 10. June 1921 in Baton Rouge ; † 23. October 1960 in Chicago ) was an American jazz - and Rhythm & Blues - saxophonist .

Live and act

Porter Kilbert began his career as a swing musician when he was a member of Benny Carter's big band from 1943 to 1945 . In 1946 he played with Roy Eldridge , from autumn 1946 in Red Saunders Combo, which had an engagement in the New York jazz club Kelly's Stables . In December 1946 he took part in recordings of Coleman Hawkins , Hank Jones , Fats Navarro J. J. Johnson and Max Roach ( Bean and the Boys ). With Saunders he returned to Chicago and appeared in his big band from May 1947 at Club DeLisa . Kilbert was Saunders' lead alto saxophonist until January 1952 and participated in his recordings. He also took on in December 1947 as the Porter Kilmer Orchestra as a backing band for Clarence Samuels for Aristocrat Records .

In the early 1950s Kilbert was alto saxophonist in the Horace Henderson band, which had an engagement in the Trianon Ballroom in 1954; radio recordings were made of the performances. As his Johnny Hodges- influenced alto saxophone style began to decline in popularity in the R&B scene, Kilbert switched to the tenor saxophone. In November 1954 he took part in recordings of the Dave Shipp Quintet for Vee-Jay Records , in which the pianist Andrew Hill can be heard. In 1955 he replaced Wallace Burton in the Duke Groner Quintet, which played in the Roberts Show Club . From 1955 to 1957 he performed at the C&C Lounge in Battles of the Saxes with Tom Archia . In 1956 Kilbert suffered a stroke that interrupted his career. In his only session under his own name for Ping Records , where he played alto saxophone again, a. also Hobart Dotson , Eddie Calhoun and Vernel Fournier with. In 1958 he led the house band at the Roberts Show Club , where he performed again with Red Saunders in July 1958.

In 1959 Kilbert had only a few engagements; he worked in New York on studio recordings of Sunnyland Slim and Roosevelt Sykes for the label Bea & Baby . In the summer of 1960 he went on a European tour with the Quincy Jones Big Band , with which his last recordings were made before his death ( Q Live in Paris ). Shortly after his return to the United States, Kilbert suffered another stroke and died in Chicago in October 1960; he was 39 years old.

Kilbert participated in 65 recording sessions in the course of his career from 1943 to 1960, in addition to the aforementioned also with Savannah Churchill , Duke Ellington , Illinois Jacquet , Carmen McRae and the Memphis Seven around Jump Jackson and Truck Parham . He is the composer of the title Riffin the Jive .

Web links

• Porter Kilbert at Allmusic (English)
• Porter Kilbert at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait at Satchmo.com (June 10) ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ With Kilbert played together in 1943 in the Carter Band a. a. Max Roach, Henry Coker , Al Gray , JJ Johnson, Joe Albany, and Curly Russell ; see. David Dicaire: Jazz Musicians of the Early Years , p. 206
3. ↑ Teddy Doering: Coleman Hawkins. His life, his music, his records. Oreos, Waakirchen 2001, ISBN 3-923657-61-7 , p. 163
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Robert L. Campbell and Leonard J. Bukowski: The Ping Records Discography ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Tom Lord discography
6. ^ Library of Congress. Copyright Office: Catalog of copyright entries: Musical compositions, Part 3 , p. 10634