Roy Porter (musician)

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Roy Porter (born July 30, 1923 in Walsenburg , Colorado , † January 25, 1998 in Los Angeles ) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader, who is mainly remembered for his California session with Charlie Parker in 1946.

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Porter comes from the coal mining region of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and grew up in Colorado Springs . He attended Wiley College in Texas, which was also attended by trumpeter Kenny Dorham at the time. Influenced by Gene Krupa and Chick Webb , he played in rhythm and blues bands as a teenager . At the age of 19 he played in New York's Apollo Theater with the Milt Larkin Orchestra and T-Bone Walker . In 1944 he moved to Los Angeles, where he played in Teddy Bunn's Spirits of Rhythm Band before joining the Howard McGhee Quintet in 1945 . In California he worked from the mid-1940s on recordings of Dexter Gordon , Sonny Criss , Wardell Gray , Teddy Edwards and Charlie Parker; On March 28, 1946, Porter participated in his dial session , which resulted in titles such as A Night in Tunesia , Yardbird Suite, Ornithology or Moose The Mooche . He played u. a. with Benny Carter , Little Richard , Joe Liggins Honey Drippers ; in 1948/49 he also led the 17-piece big band Roy Porter's Seventeen Beboppers , in which Chet Baker , Teddy Edwards, Herb Geller , Harold Land , Eric Dolphy , Jimmy Knepper , Eddie Preston and Art Farmer played. In 1949 the single Don't Blame Me was created under his own name on the Rex label , coupled with The Story Of Love by the Charles Mingus Bigband, in which Porter also played.

In the 1950s he worked for a while on the San Francisco jazz scene with Hampton Hawes and Sonny Criss, then with Earl Bostic , Louis Jordan and Pérez Prado . In the 1960s he was employed as a session musician and occasionally as a songwriter ; he also had a jazz band in which Joe Sample played briefly . 1971 and 1975 two more albums appeared on small labels; In 1978 he retired from the music business for health reasons, but continued to teach workshops, ran a music publishing company for a time and wrote an autobiography There And Back .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary (English)
  2. ↑ Eric Dolphy Discography
  3. ^ Art Pepper Discography
personal data
SURNAME Porter, Roy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Walsenburg , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1998
Place of death los Angeles