GREGORY PORTER
JUL 16 | 23:15
Gregory Porter voice / vocals
Tivon Pennicott tenor sax / tenor sax
Chip Crawford piano
Jahmal Nichols double bass / double bass
Emanuel Harrold drums / drums
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION | AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
# Grammy® “Best Vocal Jazz Album” 2014 ( Liquid Spirit )
#1 JazzFM Awards “Impact Award” 2016
#1 JazzFM Awards “International Jazz Artist of the Year” 2015
#1 JazzFM Awards “Live UK Show of the Year” 2013
#1 Jazz Journalists Association “Male Vocalist” 2013-2016
#1 JazzTimes Critics' Poll “Male Vocalist” 2013-2015
#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll “Male Vocalist” 2014, 2015, 2016
#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll “Jazz Artist of the Year” 2014
#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll “Rising Star Jazz Artist” 2013
#1 DownBeat Critics' Poll “Rising Star Male Vocalist” 2013
#1 JazzTimes Readers' Poll “Artist of the Year” 2015
#1 JazzTimes Readers' Poll “Male Vocalist” 2011, 2014
#1 JazzTimes Readers' Poll “New Artist” 2012
#2 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Male Vocalist" 2013
#2 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Male Vocalist" 2012
#2 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Blues Album of the Year" 2012 ( Be Good )
#3 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Rising Star Male Vocalist" 2012
#4 DownBeat Critics' Poll "Jazz Album of the Year" 2014 ( Liquid Spirit )
# 2014 Grammy® Nomination “Best R&B Song” (Hey Laura)
# Nomination for Grammy® “Best Vocal Jazz Album” 2012 ( Be Good )
# Nomination for Grammy® “Best Vocal Jazz Album” 2010 ( Water )
# Nomination for Jazz Journalists Association "Musician of the Year" 2014
# Nomination for the Urban Music Awards “Best Jazz Act” 2016
# Nomination for the Urban Music Awards “Best Male Act” 2016
# Nomination for BBC Music Awards "International Artist of the Year" 2016
Always faithful to the matrix of jazz, Gregory Porter adds varying doses of soul music, R&B and gospel to his music, always interpreting it with full understanding of the entire creative process, an irreproachable technique at all levels. and an emotional authority hard to match. Gregory Porter sings, in fact, with an open heart directly to all hearts that allow themselves to be opened to his music. Every time he passes a stage, an experience invariably more interesting than on record, results in a musical and emotional storm to which only stony ears and hearts of stone could remain indifferent.
With the support of a group of the highest stature, which includes pianist Chip Crawford , saxophonist Tivon Pennicott , bassist Jahmal Nichols and drummer Emanuel Harrold , Porter's singing manages to combine all the best ingredients of the great singers of soul music, including all that soul rooted in gospel, to an absolutely perfect jazz technique, in which the time in which each syllable is uttered is a constant surprise. One could even say that surprise is the greatest constant in the music of Gregory Porter, a singer capable of reinventing himself in each concert, without ever repeating himself, something that makes him, irrefutably, one of the most impressive musicians and performers. of jazz today.