whatever happened to Roy Porter?
RedAdder2
Parker's "Moose the Mooche", "Yardbird Suite", "Tunisia" etc..?
Did he fade into semi-obscurity or what?
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Matt Snyder
Porter helmed a highly-regarded bebop big band in Los Angeles in
1948-49, which featured, among others, the young Eric Dolphy and Art
Farmer.
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Lee M. Cohen
RedAdder2 wrote:
> Whatever came of this drummer after he dropped those wonderful bombs on Charlie
> Parker's "Moose the Mooche", "Yardbird Suite", "Tunisia" etc..?
>
> Sad to say, he passed away a few months ago in Los Angeles. Read his
> autobiography, some rare and true stories about Bird in LA.
Cheers!
Lee
Ed Rhodes, Jr.
>Whatever came of this drummer after he dropped those wonderful bombs on Charlie
>Parker's "Moose the Mooche", "Yardbird Suite", "Tunisia" etc..?
>
>Did he fade into semi-obscurity or what?
Actually, he wrote an autobiography. Among other things, it describes
what he did after all those late 40's records. Good background and
detail on the 40's LA scene; a must read for anyone interested in that
place and time.
Porter, Roy, "There and Back", Louisiano State University Press, 1991.
Ed Rhodes
RedAdder2
>Charlie
>>Parker's "Moose the Mooche", "Yardbird Suite", "Tunisia" etc..?
>>
>>Did he fade into semi-obscurity or what?
>>/ To a mouse, a bat looks like an angel./
>>
>
>Porter helmed a highly-regarded bebop big band in Los Angeles in
>1948-49, which featured, among others, the young Eric Dolphy and Art
>Farmer.
Are recordings of this band available? Label, etc. . ?
Matt Snyder
>>Porter helmed a highly-regarded bebop big band in Los Angeles in
>>1948-49, which featured, among others, the young Eric Dolphy and Art
>>Farmer.
>
>Are recordings of this band available? Label, etc. . ?
According to the discography on Alan Saul's Dolphy site:
>Roy Porter's 17 Beboppers
>Los Angeles, California, 2 sessions,19 January and 23 February 1949
>Art Farmer, Robert Ross, Eddie Preston, James Metlock (tpt); William Wiginton, Jimmy Knepper, Danny Horton (tbn); Eric
>Dolphy, Leroy 'Sweetpea' Robinson (as); Joe Howard, Clifford Solomon (ts); Clyde Dunn (bars); Joe Harrison (pno);
>Addison Farmer , Roger Alderson (bass - Farmer in February, Alderson in January); Bennie White (gtr); Roy Porter (dr); Alvy
>Kidd (conga, bongos, perc); Paul Sparks (vcl).
>Howard's Idea [2:58], Minor Mode, Gassin' the Wig [2:44], Little Wig [2:34], This is You [2:50], Love is Laughing at Me
>[2:49], Pete's Beat [2:36], Sippin' with Cisco [4:50], Phantom Moon [2:55], plus 3? unknown titles
>According to S&T, a couple of these tunes were released by Savoy (944, a 78 with the Wig tunes, and MG9026, a sampler
>with Pete's Beat). I have these on "Black California", Savoy SJL 2215 (and EMI-Electrola (G)1C148-61390/391), a two
>record set of various artists, one side of which is this stuff (except for Minor Mode, which is unissued). The two altos trade
>licks on Sippin' with Cisco, and one gets an idea of how Eric's sound developed and relates to Sweetpea Robinson, who Roy
>Porter once told me was a fantastic player but who died young, I believe in an auto accident. Simosko swears it is Dolphy on
>the Wig tunes. Roy Porter now has an autobiography out in which he agrees with Simosko.