Gregory Porter, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2013

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Gregory Porter performs at the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival

Adam Kissick for NPR

Here's the next great male jazz singer. He's got a booming delivery straight from vintage soul. He writes original tunes packed with metaphor and delivers authoritative versions of standards. It's little wonder Blue Note Records signed him for a new album this fall. The forthcoming Liquid Spirit is great, but he's even better live, surrounded with a long-running band that knows what he's after and enables it splendidly. As he suggests on the title track: Clap your hands now.

Personnel

• Gregory Porter, voice
• Yosuke Sato, alto saxophone
• Chip Crawford, piano
• Aaron James, bass
• Emanuel Harrold, drums

Set List

• "Painted On Canvas" (Porter)
• "On My Way to Harlem" (Porter)
• "No Love Dying" (Porter)
• "Liquid Spirit" (Porter)
• "Be Good" (Porter)
• "Work Song" (Nat Adderley)
• "I Fall In Love Too Easily" (Jules Styne)
• "1960 What" (Porter)