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Charlie Porter - Charlie Porter (2018)

Charlie Porter - Charlie Porter (2018)

BAND/ARTIST: Charlie Porter

  • Title: Charlie Porter
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: Porter House Press
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 01:04:09
  • Total Size: 148 mb | 348 mb
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Tracklist:

01. Prologue
02. Mel Smiles
03. Rondo for Sticky
04. New Beginnings
05. A Lover Scorned
06. Brown Study
07. Messenger
08. Skain Train
09. Morning Glory
10. Anthem
11. Epilogue

Personnel:

Charlie Porter - trumpet
John Nastos - alto and soprano saxophones
David Evans - tenor saxophone
John Moak - trombone
Majid Khaliq - violin
Christopher Woitach - guitar
David Goldblatt - piano
Greg Goebel - piano
George Colligan - piano
Dan Gaynor - piano
Tim Gilson - bass
Cary Miga - bass
Jon Lakey - bass
Chuck Israels - bass
Bill Athens - bass
Alan Jones - drums
Michael Raynor - drums
Christopher Brown - drums
Mel Brown - drums
Tim Rap - drums

Trumpeter and composer Charlie Porter exhibits his innovative spirit and his brilliant musicianship on his self-titled debut as a leader. Working with a rotating cast of Portland (Oregon) area musicians, Porter performs ten of his originals and one cover with a refreshingly unique style and captivating spontaneity.

Similar in concept to tenor saxophonist Benny Golson's Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Argo, 1961), Porter's release starts off with the unaccompanied trumpet piece "Prologue" that quotes motifs from the other tunes on the recording. Porter then adds an instrument per track until the intricately constructed and dramatic "Brown Study," that features a sextet. Here the similarity with Golson ends as Porter goes back down to smaller and smaller ensembles until his solo, the baroque tinged, "Epilogue."

The album goes from the effervescent to the cinematic and from the whimsical to the haunting. "Mel Smiles," for instance, is a boppish duet with drummer Mel Brown. Porter's vibrant and sonorous phrases alternate with and overlap Brown's energetic polyrhythms. In contrast Porter's dialogue with pianist George Colligan, "Anthem," is melancholic and endowed with a western classical romanticism. The exchanges of the horn's warm lilting tones and the keyboard's bright crystalline cascades are reminiscent of pianist Jelly Roll Morton and cornetist Joseph "King" Oliver's classic 1924 recordings.


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