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Charlie Porter

Charlie Porter is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, educator, and classical performer whose catalog joins small-group jazz with concert études.

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Career Overview

About Charlie Porter

Porter’s official biography traces his trumpet training through Juilliard, Paris study, New York freelance work, and a later Portland base. It documents parallel careers in jazz groups, classical ensembles, composition, recording, and education.[1]

His leader discography begins with Charlie Porter and Immigration Nation and later expands through Hindsight, Live at Blue Llama, Portland Sketches, Cipher, and archival recordings of his trumpet études. The catalog keeps performance and written pedagogy in the same artist-led practice.[1][2][3]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Charlie Porter leader groups

Porter’s quartets and larger small groups provide the main setting for his original albums and commissioned Buddy Bolden Suite.[1][2]

Trumpeter

Absolute Ensemble

Porter’s long association with Kristjan Järvi’s ensemble includes international touring and nine recordings across contemporary and cross-genre projects.[1][2]

Composer, author, and educator

Trumpet études and education

Porter teaches jazz trumpet and has issued archival recordings of his lyrical and concert étude collections alongside an extensive video curriculum.[1][2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2018 · PHP Records

Charlie Porter

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Porter’s self-titled leader debut established the original-music catalog documented on his official discography.[1][2][3]

Release details

2019 · PHP Records

Immigration Nation

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

The second leader album extends Porter’s small-group writing through a program organized around migration and identity.[1][2]

Release details

2024 · Blue Llama Records

Live at Blue Llama

Leader and trumpeter

The live release preserves Porter’s group in a club setting within his growing PHP and Blue Llama catalog.[2]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp catalog

Stream Porter’s leader albums and current artist-authorized releases with complete credits.

Official discography

Browse Porter’s leader, classical, ensemble, and sideman recordings with dates and labels.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

No current Jazz DateBook dates are listed for Charlie Porter. The career guide remains available while the calendar changes.

Evidence-Based Connections

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official extended biography and ensemble history

    Charlie Porter

  2. [2] Official leader and sideman discography

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  3. [3] Artist-authorized leader catalog

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