Bob Porter, Jazz Producer and Broadcaster, Dies at 80
Hundreds of albums bore his name, notably reissues of classic material. And he helped make WBGO the biggest jazz radio station in the New York area.
Bob Porter at a 2018 Jazz at Lincoln Center event for the Newark radio station WBGO. He had been heard on the station since it first went on the air in 1979.Credit.Jacob Blickenstaff for The New York Times
April 22, 2021, 5:53 p.m. ET
Bob Porter, who as a record producer guided the reissue of vast swaths of the classic jazz canon, and who as a broadcaster helped build WBGO into the largest jazz radio station in the New York City area, died on April 10 at his home in Northvale, N.J. He was 80.