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Gregory Porter's "Real Good Hands" Selected as iTunes Single of the Week
Soulful Track from Grammy Nominated Vocalist's Second CD on Motema Music, Released February 14, Available for Free Download “Real Good Hands," a track from Be Good, internationally acclaimed vocalist Gregory Porter's sophomore release on Motema Music, has been selected by iTunes as its Single of the Week for the week of February 14. “Real Good Hands," ...
Gregory Porter: Be Good
by Dan Bilawsky
Debut albums often serve as fine introductions to the work of fledgling artists with potential for greater things, but that wasn't the case with Gregory Porter's Water (Motéma, 2010). Porter's debut, which was nominated for a Grammy Award, presented a vocal soul-jazz juggernaut that seemingly materialized out of thin air as a fully matured musical entity. ...
Vocalist Gregory Porter Will Tour To Support Release Of "Be Good"
Sophomore Release from Grammy Nominee Will Be Released on Motema Music on February 14, 2012 East Coast Shows Scheduled For Boston, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh From March 15 Through April 3 In the short fifteen months since Gregory Porter exploded onto the international music scene with his debut CD, Water (Motema Music, 2010), he ...
Acclaimed Vocalist Gregory Porter Offers Up Another Round of Soulful Jazz on Be Good
Sophomore Release from Grammy® Nominee Will Be Released on Motéma Music on February 14, 2012 In the short fifteen months since Gregory Porter exploded onto the international music scene with his debut CD, Water, he has racked up a continuing stream of accolades and awards. Porter's Water garnered a 'Best Jazz Vocal ' Grammy® nomination (a ...
Rapidly Rising Star Gregory Porter Releases New Video & Remixes of "1960 What?," The Indendiary Track From His Grammy Nominated Debut, "Water"
Remixes by Opolopo, Peas, and Wicked Jazz Sounds Available Digitally on October 25 Gregory Porter, whose 2010 Motema Music debut, Water, was nominated in the 2011 54th Annual Grammy Awards as Best Jazz Vocal Album, will release a powerful cinematic treatment of one of the CD's most powerful and popular tracks, “1960 What?." The video, which ...
Jazz Radio Returns a Second Time! Lydia Liebman's Reeds & Deeds II is back!
'Reeds & Deeds II' is returning for a second full year on WECB! The jazz radio program that made a big splash on the internet airwaves is back with more exclusive content, brand new tracks and exciting interviews. Lydia Liebman's radio program ran from September to May last year on Emerson College's internet radio station, WECB. ...
Georgia Mancio's ReVoice! Festival returns to the Pizza Express, London: October 2011
Nine days, 37 artists, one celebration of International Jazz Voices curated by award-winning vocalist, lyricist and producer, Georgia Mancio. A performer of pure class and integrity; a true improviser with a big imagination, Mancio has proved herself one of the UK's most important new artists having worked alongside jazz luminaries such as Bobby McFerrin, Sheila Jordan ...
Gregory Porter: Water
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando un cantante presenta come sua principale influenza Nat King Cole, un biglietto da visita eloquente come quello di Wynton Marsalis (che non esita a definire l'artista in questione «un fantastico giovane cantante») e nei crediti dell'album d'esordio include James Spaulding, sassofonista e flautista già al fianco di Sun Ra, Max Roach, Wayne Shorter, non è ...
Gary Giddins on Ignored Black Jazz Writers
by Greg Thomas
In the first essay for the Race and Jazz column, I gave a first-person account of how my love and appreciation of certain “white" saxophonists served to safeguard me from the temptation of racism back in college during the early-to-mid-'80s. My second essay privileged culture over race, and told the story of how attorney and constitutional ...
Inntoene Festival: Diersbach, Austria, June 10-12, 2011
by Sebastian Scotney
Inntoene Festival 2011 Diersbach, Austria June 10-12, 2011 I overheard a conversation at the Inntoene Festival in Austria. In a mock-incredulous tone, one New York musician was asking another: “Straight up. You're telling me. That this whole farm place. Is owned. By a trombonist?!“ Cue laughter and the ...
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