ROY PORTER
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A combination of circumstance, inclination and ability conspired to ensure that even if Roy Porter did not go on to fulfil the full promise of his early years in music, he would be remembered for his historic contribution to the development of bebop, in the shape of his contributions to Charlie Parker's famous (and, in one case, infamous) recordings for Dial Records in Los Angeles in 1946.
Porter was born in a small mining town, but moved to Colorado Springs with his mother at the age of 8, following the death of his father. He was brought up there, and subsequently attended Wiley College in Texas, where the trumpeter Kenny Dorham was one of his fellow students.
His early influences on drums were the swing era giants Gene Krupa and Chick Webb, and he began playing in rhythm and blues bands as a teenager. He moved to Los Angeles in 1944, where
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