"Swinging in the new year, Porter style"

New York-based trumpeter and composer, Charlie Porter is equally at home in both jazz and classical music. Following Duke Ellington's philosophy that “there is only good music and bad music", Charlie has never allowed himself to become pigeonholed into any one category. A fan of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, and, of course, Duke Ellington but also of Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, and Toru Takemitsu --Porter takes an all-encompassing approach to music that's beginning to make a name for him on the local music scene as well as abroad. Charlie Porter's playing has been described by Wynton Marsalis as both “...fiery and intelligent..."

On Monday, January 2, 2006, The Charlie Porter Septet will be performing at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, in New York City. This debut performance at Jazz @ Lincoln Center's hip, smaller club venue, will serve as a prelude to an upcoming performance at Dizzy's, where Porter and his band will premiere an original composition commissioned by Chamber Music America and The Doris Duke Foundation. Charlie will be performing a mix of his own originals and standards as well as a sneak preview of a movement of his “Buddy Bolden Suite" (a work based on the life of the legendary New Orleans cornet player, considered to be the first exponent of jazz).

The Septet will perform two sets at 7:30 & 9:30pm. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola is located in the Time Warner Center, Broadway at 60th Street, on the 5th floor. Admission is $15, $10 for students.