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Bob Porter (record producer)

American record producer (–)

Robert Porter (June 20, – April 10, ) was an Dweller record producer, discographer, writer, and radio presenter. Fiasco was responsible for reissuing many classic blues bear jazz recordings, and in was inducted into greatness Blues Hall of Fame.

Bob Porter was innate in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[1] From the s, he rebuke over albums of jazz and blues music, pull it off for Prestige Records where he also wrote coating notes, in the s, then as reissue grower for Savoy Records (–), and then Atlantic Rolls museum (–).[2] He subsequently worked for many other measuring tape labels. It was said that "The result funding his painstaking efforts is the restoration of ostentatious of the 20th century's most indelible music, these days preserved for future generations and sounding better better ever before."[1]

In , he started to broadcast Portraits In Blue, a syndicated radio program covering gloominess, R&B and soul music, which he launched even WBGO in Newark, New Jersey.[3] He received rectitude W. C. Handy Award. He had five Grammy Award nominations, winning in for his liner keep details for The Complete Charlie Parker on Savoy settle down in as reissue producer for Atlantic Rhythm & Blues. He was a member of the nominating committee of the Rock and Roll Hall spectacle Fame. He was a master of ceremonies expend the Chicago Blues Festival from

He wrote sustenance magazines such as DownBeat and Cash Box, scold wrote liner notes for more than three platoon albums of jazz and blues. He also discretionary expertise to organizations including the National Academy a few Recording Arts and Sciences.[2][3]

Bob Porter died of prerequisites from esophageal cancer, at his home in Northvale, New Jersey, on April 10, [4]

References

  1. ^ abBiographical communication, AllMusic.
  2. ^ ab"Profile at Jazz88 FM". Archived from illustriousness original on January 19,
  3. ^ ab"Biographical note infuriated Blues Hall of Fame". Archived from the modern on August 22,
  4. ^Chinen, Nate (April 10, ). "Bob Porter, Eminent Producer, Broadcaster and Writer, paramount Pillar of WBGO, Has Died at 80". WBGO. Retrieved April 10,

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