Ryan Porter

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Ryan Porter at the INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018

Ryan Porter (* 1979 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz and funk musician ( trombone , arrangement ).

Live and act

Porter learned the trombone when he became interested in jazz music at the age of ten. During his high school years he had music lessons, played in a marching band and in a jazz ensemble around his school friend Kamasi Washington . One of his mentors (alongside Roy Hargrove ) was Billy Higgins , who brought him to jazz workshops and jam sessions . On a scholarship, he went to New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music , where he had lessons with David Taylor and Steve Turre .

After completing his studies in 2001 Porter returned to Los Angeles, where he soon established himself in the music scene; u. a. he worked with Snoop Dogg , Stevie Wonder , Rihanna , Kanye West , Nick Cave , and as a musician in TV shows such as American Idol and The Voice . Porter also played in the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra , on whose albums Live at MCG (2004) and Dear Mr. Sinatra (2005, with John Pizzarelli ) he was involved. In the following years he worked with Ben Dowling , Stix Hooper , Henry Franklin and with West Coast Get Down , a group of jazz, hip-hop and funk musicians such as Kamasi Washington ( The Epic ), Cameron Graves ( Planteary Prince , 2010) and Miles Mosley ( Uprising ). During these sessions he created three productions that he presented under his own name, The Optimist (2017), Spangle-Lang Lane (2018) and Force for Good (2019); at Spangle-Lang Lane he combined classic children's songs and rhymes with jazz, soul and R&B-influenced arrangements . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 2004 and 2017.

Discographic notes

  • Kamasi Washington and The Next Step: Live at 5th Street Dick's (2005), with Miles Mosley, Teris Martin, Robert Miller, Stephen Bruner, Brandon Coleman, Cameron Graves, Rickey Washington
  • The Ryan Porter Jazz Quintet: Anaya (2008), with Edwin Livingston, Miles Mosley, Aaron Haggerty, Robert Miller, Tony Austin, Brandon Coleman, Cameron Graves, Kamasi Washington, Jumaane Smith
  • Spangle-Lang Lane (World Galaxy, 2017)
  • The Optimist (World Galaxy Records, rec 2008/09, ed. 2018)
  • Force for Good (2019)
  • Ryan Porter & the West Coast Get Down: Live at New Morning, Paris (2020)

Web links

Commons : Ryan Porter  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trombonist Ryan Porter is For the Children in Bandcamp daily
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 23, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Porter, Ryan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trombone, arrangement)
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles