Issues of Life: Features and Remixes
Compilation album by
Gregory Porter
ReleasedSeptember 15, 2014 (2014-09-15)
Genre
Length68:53
Label
  • Membran
  • Must Have Jazz
Gregory Porter chronology
Liquid Spirit
(2013)		 Issues of Life: Features and Remixes
(2014)		 Take Me to the Alley
(2016)

Issues of Life: Features and Remixes is a compilation album by American jazz musician and singer Gregory Porter.

Issues of Life: Features and Remixes was released after Grammy-winning Liquid Spirit (2013). The album brings together disparate tracks recorded prior to signing contract with Blue Note Records and "displays much of what has made him such a jazz superstar".[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Financial Times[2]
The Guardian[3]
The Irish Times[4]

Jazz critic John Fordham from The Guardian highlighted a "muscular, horn-heavy" version of Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'", described "Be My Monster Love" as "soulful and coolly bass-walking" and "Hope Is a Thing with Feathers" as a "smokily wondering immigant-song". He added that it was recorded with David Murray, describing him as a "post-Coltrane tenor-sax supremo".[3]

Jazz critic Mike Hobart from Financial Times called Issues of Life: Features and Remixes a "terrific introduction to the Porter aesthetic".[2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Moanin' (Radio Edit)" (Gregory Porter, Paul Zauner's Blue Brass)3:32
2."Be My Monster Love" (Gregory Porter, David Murray Infinity Quartet)8:01
3."Issues of Life" (Gregory Porter, Zbonics)5:26
4."About the Children" (Gregory Porter, David Murray Infinity Quartet)7:48
5."Just in Time" (Gregory Porter, Zbonics)4:53
6."Hope Is a Thing with Feathers" (Gregory Porter, David Murray Infinity Quartet)7:16
7."Nowhere to Run" (Gregory Porter, Zbonics)3:50
8."She Danced Across the Floor (Automart Remix)" (Gregory Porter, Zbonics)3:55
9."1960 What? (Opolopo Kick and Bass Rerub)" (Gregory Porter)8:24
10."Army of the Faithful (Joyful Noise)" (Gregory Porter, David Murray Infinity Quartet)6:18
11."She's Gone" (Gregory Porter, Zbonics)5:16
12."Song of the Wind" (Gregory Porter, M1, Brian Jackson, The New Midnight Band)4:14
Total length:68:53

References

  1. 1 2 Matt Collar. "Gregory Porter – Issues of Life: Features and Remixes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  2. 1 2 Mike Hobart (October 17, 2014). "Gregory Porter: Issues of Life – review". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  3. 1 2 John Fordham (2014-09-18). "Gregory Porter Issues of Life: Features and Remixes review – an absorbing chronicle". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
  4. ↑ Cormac Larkin (Oct 10, 2014). "Gregory Porter: Issues of Life - Features & Remixes". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
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