Porter Records
Encyclopedia
Porter Records is a United States
record label
that specializes in jazz, hiphop, electronic, world, and experimental music. Its catalog is self-described as "music for the eclectic listener", with albums by artists Henry Grimes
, Joe Chambers
, Heikki Sarmanto
, Chll Pll, and Mason Lindahl
, among others.
United States
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record label
Record label
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that specializes in jazz, hiphop, electronic, world, and experimental music. Its catalog is self-described as "music for the eclectic listener", with albums by artists Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes
Henry Grimes is a jazz double bassist, violinist, and poet.After more than a decade of activity and performance, notably as a leading bassist in free jazz, Grimes completely disappeared from the music scene by 1970...
, Joe Chambers
Joe Chambers
Joe Chambers is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre...
, Heikki Sarmanto
Heikki Sarmanto
Heikki Veli Uolevi Sarmanto is a Finnish jazz pianist and composer.Sarmanto started playing jazz in the 1960s. He studied first at the Sibelius Academy and later in Berklee College of Music in Boston...
, Chll Pll, and Mason Lindahl
Mason Lindahl
Mason Lindahl is a guitarist and songwriter from Sacramento, California. Prominently known for his unique fingerstyle of guitar playing. Mason has been compared guitarist and songwriters such as John Fahey, Leonard Cohen and James Blackshaw...
, among others.
External links
- Official Site
- "A Collector's Rewards" feature about Porter Records by AllAboutJazz.com
- Stereo Subversion Interview with Zach Hill of Chll Pll about "Aggressively Humble"
- DRAM listing