Gregory Porter
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Gran Teatro Geox
Via Tassinari,1
Nov 4, 2020
9:15 PM GMT+1
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Gregory Porter è il cantante soul americano che coii suoi album ha conquistato il mondo. Già Best Jazz Vocal Album ai Grammy con Take Me To The Alley, ha ricevuto anche due nomination coi suoi album Water e Be Good. Nato a Los Angeles, cresciuto a Bakersfield; un’infanzia difficile, sostenuta però dalla passione per la musica e per la voce di Nat King Cole, Gregory Porter esordisce nel 2010 con il disco Water che gli valse la prima nomination ai Grammy come “Best Jazz Vocal”, fatto eccezionale per un disco d’esordio. I singoli 1960 What? e Illusion, scalano le classifiche in America e in Europa, mentre il New York Times sigilla così tale successo: “Gregory Porter has most of what you would want in a male jazz singer, and maybe a thing or two you didn’t know you wanted”. Water conteneva già quel senso di maturità senza tempo caratteristico dei giganti del blues, del gospel e del soul che hanno influenzato la carriera di Porter. La consacrazione arriva nel 2012 con il secondo album Be Good, con cui si aggiudica la seconda nomination ai Grammy, questa volta come “Best Traditional R&B Performance”. Con una voce che sa essere carezzevole o decisa, calda o incoraggiante, Gregory Porter è stato definito da Wynton Marsalis, con cui si esibisce spesso a New York, “un giovane cantante fantastico”. Progetto più maturo e variopinto, Be Good è una raccolta di dodici pezzi in gran parte inediti scritti dallo stesso Porter più alcuni standard come Work Song, God Bless the Child e Imitation of Life. Questo secondo album consente alla personalità di Gregory Porter di eccellere in svariati ambiti musicali, sorretto da un ottimo nucleo di musicisti. La splendida voce dalla naturale propensione melodica hanno condotto Porter verso un luminoso futuro in ambito internazionale. Tra i nomi di coloro che Porter cita come propri punti di riferimento ci sono Nat King Cole, Joe Williams e Donny Hathaway. Lo stile vocale di Porter è stato di certo plasmato dall’esempio di tali cantanti, ma la sua personale visione del mondo carica tutti i brani di una tale intensità emotiva da rendere ogni esecuzione estremamente potente. Padova è pronta per ospitare un artista che è già assoluto riferimento della scena Jazz mondia La data: 4 mnovembre Padova, Gran Teatro Geox
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Anne-Marie
August 23rd 2024
We flew from St Louis to Denver just for the Gregory Porter Show at the Denver Botanic Garden. From start to finish just a perfect night. We had our picnic meal. We rented chairs at the venue. We enjoyed the opening act of Gabriel (like the Angel, he told us) Royal (like royalty). A cellist who composes his music in the NY subways. A delight.
The transition to Gregory Porter’s band was smooth. And then Gregory Porter made his entrance striding in wearing a dazzling white suit and his trademark Kangol. He stayed with his set list and there was no encore (it was a long walk from the stage to the Green Room so when he left the stage, you knew that was it). But each member of the band was featured and Gregory Porter was just great. There were several songs you wished he had included but you enjoyed the songs included. A beautiful night. We flew home the next day.
Denver, CO@Denver Botanic Gardens
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With his customary class, elegance, and sophistication, GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter Gregory Porter today announces his first-ever Christmas album, to be released on November 3 via Blue Note/Decca Records. Entitled Christmas Wish it is a loving tribute to his favorite time of year – and to great songwriters, singers, and interpreters including Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Gaye, Dinah Washington, and Nat King Cole. In addition to this list of world class names, Porter himself has added to the Christmas songbook with three original tracks, soon to be favorites for the festive season, including the first single “Everything’s Not Lost” which is out now.
Backed by his long-time band and produced by repeat collaborator Troy Miller, the album features inspired interpretations of carols, standards, and soulful sixties deep-cuts including “Silent Night,” “Little Drummer Boy,” Marvin Gaye’s “Purple Snowflakes,” Stevie Wonder’s “Someday At Christmas,” and Frank Loesser’s “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?,” which features a special guest appearance by GRAMMY-winning vocalist Samara Joy.
The theme of sharing and caring at Christmas, and the sense of renewal and revival that comes when the year draws to a close, is all here in Porter’s most personal contribution – his trio of new, self-penned songs, “Christmas Wish,” “Heart For Christmas,” and “Everything’s Not Lost,” an elegant piano ballad that is Porter’s persuasive plea to remember those less fortunate than ourselves. “I'm always thinking of balance” he explains. “That has been instilled in me and it keeps coming up in a lot of my music. At your highest, at your greatest, at your most pleasant time, don't forget about other people who are suffering.”
Christmas Wish features Porter’s longtime pianist Chip Crawford on piano, Emmanuel Harrold on drums and percussion, Gregoire Maret on harmonica, Jahmal Nichols on bass, Ondre Pivec on Hammond organ, Tivon Pennicott on flute, soprano saxophone, and tenor saxphone, and backing vocals by Stephanie Fisher-Alvarenga, Chris Ashley Anthony, and Sheherazade Holman with orchestral contributions from the Kingdom Orchestra. The album was recorded between Sear Sound Studio in New York City and London’s Crossways Studio and Abbey Road Studios.
Read MoreBacked by his long-time band and produced by repeat collaborator Troy Miller, the album features inspired interpretations of carols, standards, and soulful sixties deep-cuts including “Silent Night,” “Little Drummer Boy,” Marvin Gaye’s “Purple Snowflakes,” Stevie Wonder’s “Someday At Christmas,” and Frank Loesser’s “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?,” which features a special guest appearance by GRAMMY-winning vocalist Samara Joy.
The theme of sharing and caring at Christmas, and the sense of renewal and revival that comes when the year draws to a close, is all here in Porter’s most personal contribution – his trio of new, self-penned songs, “Christmas Wish,” “Heart For Christmas,” and “Everything’s Not Lost,” an elegant piano ballad that is Porter’s persuasive plea to remember those less fortunate than ourselves. “I'm always thinking of balance” he explains. “That has been instilled in me and it keeps coming up in a lot of my music. At your highest, at your greatest, at your most pleasant time, don't forget about other people who are suffering.”
Christmas Wish features Porter’s longtime pianist Chip Crawford on piano, Emmanuel Harrold on drums and percussion, Gregoire Maret on harmonica, Jahmal Nichols on bass, Ondre Pivec on Hammond organ, Tivon Pennicott on flute, soprano saxophone, and tenor saxphone, and backing vocals by Stephanie Fisher-Alvarenga, Chris Ashley Anthony, and Sheherazade Holman with orchestral contributions from the Kingdom Orchestra. The album was recorded between Sear Sound Studio in New York City and London’s Crossways Studio and Abbey Road Studios.
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