| Genre | Unknown |
|---|---|
| Date (CEST) | 2012-02-21 21:13:30 |
| Group | OMA |
| Size | 143 MB |
| Files | 12 |
| M3U / SFV / NFO | |
Gregory_Porter--Be_Good-WEB-2012-OMA
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Tracklist (M3U)
| # | Filename | Artist | Songname | Bitrate | BPM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01-gregory_porter--painted_on_canvas-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Painted On Canvas | Unknown | Unknown |
| 2 | 02-gregory_porter--be_good_(lions_song)-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Be Good (Lion's Song) | Unknown | Unknown |
| 3 | 03-gregory_porter--on_my_way_to_harlem-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | On My Way To Harlem | Unknown | Unknown |
| 4 | 04-gregory_porter--real_good_hands-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Real Good Hands | Unknown | Unknown |
| 5 | 05-gregory_porter--the_way_you_want_to_live-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | The Way You Want To Live | Unknown | Unknown |
| 6 | 06-gregory_porter--when_did_you_learn-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | When Did You Learn | Unknown | Unknown |
| 7 | 07-gregory_porter--imitation_of_life-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Imitation Of Life | Unknown | Unknown |
| 8 | 08-gregory_porter--mothers_song-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Mother's Song | Unknown | Unknown |
| 9 | 09-gregory_porter--our_love-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Our Love | Unknown | Unknown |
| 10 | 10-gregory_porter--bling_bling-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Bling Bling | Unknown | Unknown |
| 11 | 11-gregory_porter--work_song-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | Work Song | Unknown | Unknown |
| 12 | 12-gregory_porter--god_bless_the_child-oma.mp3 | Gregory Porter | God Bless The Child | Unknown | Unknown |
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████ GENRE...[ Jazz CAT#....[ 233488 ████
████ LABEL...[ Motema ENCODER.[ Lame 3.98.4 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2012 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint-Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 62:05 min REL.DATE[ 02.21.2012 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 12 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 142,3 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Painted On Canvas 04:45 ████
████ 02 Be Good (Lion's Song) 06:27 ████
████ 03 On My Way To Harlem 07:40 ████
████ 04 Real Good Hands 04:51 ████
████ 05 The Way You Want To Live 04:25 ████
████ 06 When Did You Learn 04:19 ████
████ 07 Imitation Of Life 03:00 ████
████ 08 Mother's Song 06:59 ████
████ 09 Our Love 03:31 ████
████ 10 Bling Bling 06:00 ████
████ 11 Work Song 06:34 ████
████ 12 God Bless The Child 03:34 ████
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████ www.soulseduction.com ████
████ ████
████ 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. PorterÆs Water garnered a æBest Jazz ████
████ Vocal Æ Grammy« nomination (a rare feat for a ████
████ debut recording), rocketed to #1 on both ████
████ iTunes and Amazon in the UK, made significant ████
████ sales inroads and has soared on to be included ████
████ on an international array of year-end æBest ████
████ OfÆ lists for 2010 in several genres. The ████
████ happy result is that, in less than a year and ████
████ a half, these successes have created a ████
████ formidable draw for Porter as an international ████
████ touring artist. ████
████ ████
████ PorterÆs ascending star is viewed most ████
████ brightly in Europe, especially in the UK, ████
████ where he has performed on Jamie CullumÆs BBC ████
████ radio program, on Later with Jools Holland, as ████
████ a featured guest at the London Jazz Festival ████
████ and as one of two special guests on Carole ████
████ KingÆs 2011 BBC holiday television special. ████
████ UKÆs Jazz Wise magazine named Water the #1 ████
████ Jazz Album of 2011 (the first time a vocal ████
████ album has achieved this distinction.). ████
████ Meanwhile, across the channel in France and ████
████ Belgium press and radio have showered Porter ████
████ with incredible accolades, lauding him as the ████
████ new ôRoi of Vocal Jazz,ö in both jazz and ████
████ mainstream press outlets such as LÆExpress.ö ████
████ As his international reputation continues to ████
████ grow, ôBe Good,ö the title track from PorterÆs ████
████ forthcoming CDS, is being released as an ████
████ advance single to herald the much-anticipated ████
████ release. ████
████ ████
████ On the album Be Good, (out February 14, 2011 ████
████ on MotΘma), Porter has crafted a work that not ████
████ only meets, but is likely to surpass, the ████
████ heightened expectations of the jazz and soul ████
████ audiences eagerly awaiting his follow up to ████
████ Water. Featuring PorterÆs winning combination ████
████ of ôoutstanding original songs, erudite lyrics ████
████ and social comment, top drawer musicianship ████
████ and improvisation, and a voice to die forö ████
████ (Jazz Wise), Be Good is a musical compendium ████
████ of groove-driven delights, ranging from quiet ████
████ ballads to up-tempo burners, from romantic ████
████ charmers to powerful, blues-tinged anthems. Be ████
████ Good finds Porter surrounded by the core of ████
████ his powerhouse working band, with whom he ████
████ recorded his Grammy« nominated debut, and who ████
████ have performed with him for over three years ████
████ now: Chip Crawford on piano, Aaron James on ████
████ bass, Emanuel Harrold on drums, and Yosuke ████
████ Sato on alto sax. Under the sure hand of ████
████ producer Brian Bacchus, Porter and the band ████
████ rise to new heights on Be Good, which is ████
████ further fueled by richly emotional horn ████
████ arrangements by Kamau Kenyatta, who produced ████
████ Water and who continues to play an important ████
████ role in PorterÆs sound. Kenyatta also performs ████
████ on one track (ôPainted on Canvasö) and guest ████
████ instrumentalists Keyon Harrold on trumpet and ████
████ Tivon Pennicott on tenor sax are also featured ████
████ throughout. ████
████ ████
████ Porter tapped the prodigious talents of ████
████ veteran producer Brian Bacchus for Be Good. ████
████ Bacchus, whose A&R successes have included ████
████ Norah JonesÆ Grammy« -winning Come Away with ████
████ Me, as well as Cassandra Wilson, Gonzalo ████
████ Rubalcaba, Wild Magnolias, and Joe LovanoÆs ████
████ tribute to opera legend Enrico Caruso, Via ████
████ Caruso, has produced projects for acclaimed ████
████ jazz artists including Randy Weston, Lizz ████
████ Wright, Richie Havens, Ronny Jordan, and ████
████ Patricia Barber. Bachus first met Porter ████
████ through a mutual friend and the two ████
████ immediately recognized a shared sensibility, a ████
████ sense of musical camaraderie that resulted in ████
████ a strong in-studio collaboration. ████
████ ████
████ "Gregory is the real deal and a revelation in ████
████ terms of new male jazz singers, but I think ████
████ that his voice coupled with his songwriting ████
████ may be the thing that leaves most listeners ████
████ with their mouths open,ö says Bacchus. ôThere ████
████ have been many solid singer songwriters coming ████
████ from under the jazz umbrella of the last 10 ████
████ years that are mostly brimming with folk and ████
████ country influences. Gregory is the first that ████
████ IÆm hearing that is squarely coming out of a ████
████ real classic soul bag (i.e. Bill Withers, ████
████ Curtis Mayfield, Donny Hathaway) as a ████
████ songwriter, but with both feet firmly planted ████
████ in jazzÆs soil.ö ████
████ ████
████ A disarmingly sincere performer, with a groove ████
████ that never quits, a voice of incredible ████
████ virtuosity and a seemingly universal appeal as ████
████ a songwriter, PorterÆs lyrics often speak as ████
████ dreams do, in the languages of image and ████
████ emotion, communicating thoroughly though not ████
████ always directly. His objective as a ████
████ songwriter, he says, is ôto create a sincere ████
████ message about my feelings on love, culture, ████
████ family and our human joys and pain.ö Even in ████
████ conversation he leans toward the poetic: ôJust ████
████ like the song æPainted on CanvasÆ says, æIÆm ████
████ æmade of the pigment of paint that is put ████
████ uponÆ àtrying to be honest and organic in my ████
████ colors that I show.ö Be Good clearly attains ████
████ that goal, and also proves to have a wide ████
████ palette of colors to show. ████
████ ████
████ The CDÆs opening track, the song mentioned ████
████ above, masterfully primes the canvas of ████
████ PorterÆs sophomore release. Gentle as a ████
████ bedtime story-teller, his vocals weave ████
████ seamlessly in and around the warm tones ████
████ established by his core band, enhanced by the ████
████ sparkling threads of Kamau KenyattaÆs tenor ████
████ sax and Chip CrawfordÆs impressionistic ████
████ pianism. ôBe Good, (LionÆs Song)ö (the leading ████
████ single from the album) has been a favorite at ████
████ PorterÆs live shows for some time, here ████
████ finally making its much anticipated recording ████
████ debut. The upbeat tribute ôOn My Way to ████
████ Harlemö percolates with the vibrant cultural ████
████ energy of the Harlem renaissance figures that ████
████ once walked the streets near St. NickÆs Pub, ████
████ where PorterÆs working band came together and ████
████ where he finally solidified his conviction to ████
████ record his first record in 2010. ôI grew up in ████
████ California and now I live in Brooklyn,ö ████
████ explains Porter, ôbut even so, I feel that the ████
████ spirit of the artists that came out of Harlem ████
████ û from Duke Ellington to Langston Hughes - has ████
████ so influenced my work that Harlem is as much a ████
████ part of me as if I had lived there.ö ████
████ ████
████ The soulful spirit of the æ70s, epitomized by ████
████ such artists as Lou Rawls and the Chi Lights, ████
████ echoes forth in style on PorterÆs ôReal Good ████
████ Hands,ö a track that makes it clear that ████
████ Porter is a complete romantic at heart. On the ████
████ intriguing ballad, ôThe Way You Want to Live,ö ████
████ a song of dangerous personal choices that he ████
████ dedicated to Amy Winehouse during a ████
████ performance at the Blue Note in New York just ████
████ days after her untimely death, Chip CrawfordÆs ████
████ poignant touch on the keyboards is matched by ████
████ PorterÆs fervent delivery. Next up, the bandÆs ████
████ unassuming, solid rapport underscores the ████
████ tenderness of PorterÆs lyrics on ôWhen Did You ████
████ Learn?ö ████
████ ████
████ ôImitation of Life,ö the first of the three ████
████ tracks on Be Good not written by Porter, is ████
████ the title track from an Oscar-nominated 1959 ████
████ film starring Lana Turner and Sandra Dee. ████
████ Written by Paul Francis Webster and Sammy ████
████ Fain, who also penned the Academy ████
████ Award-winning ôLove Is a Many Splendored ████
████ Thing,ö and the Johnny Mathis hit, ôA Certain ████
████ Smile, ôImitation of Lifeö was originally ████
████ performed by Earl Grant and has seldom since ████
████ been recorded. ████
████ ████
████ Porter, the youngest of a family of six raised ████
████ in Bakersfield California by a single mother ████
████ who was also a minister, offers a show ████
████ stopping and inspiringly heartfelt tribute to ████
████ this clearly exceptionally woman in ôMotherÆs ████
████ Song,ö emphasizing the extraordinary impact ████
████ her love and fortitude has upon his life and ████
████ work. ôOur Loveö which takes as its theme ████
████ romantic love that succeeds despite the odds ████
████ and in spite of naysayers, sustains the CDÆs ████
████ mellow mood until Porter shakes things up ████
████ completely with the scat-inflected, high ████
████ energy ôBling Bling.ö Next, Porter delivers ████
████ perhaps one of the hottest and grittiest ████
████ versions ever of Nat AdderlyÆs classic, ôWork ████
████ Song,ö a hard driving blues and jazz standard ████
████ that has been recorded by vocalists as ████
████ disparate as Nina Simone, Bobby Darin, Sammy ████
████ Davis, Jr. and Johnny Rivers. Porter closes ████
████ the proceedings with an a cappella version of ████
████ ôGod Bless the Child,ö that is as understated ████
████ as a prayer and as comforting as a lullaby. ████
████ ████
████ In review after review, critics are inspired ████
████ to comment on Porter as a new ôkingÆ of jazz,ö ████
████ and a ôleader of the pack,ö a performer of ████
████ extraordinary presence who has been compared ████
████ with the greatest of the greats, such as Joe ████
████ Williams, Nat Cole, Donny Hathaway, and Marvin ████
████ Gaye. As musically solid as his recordings are ████
████ and as powerful and honest as PorterÆs ████
████ magnificent voice is, it may just well be the ████
████ brilliance of his poetry and the unguarded ████
████ depth of his emotional delivery that is most ████
████ fueling his rapid rise to fame. While fans ████
████ will certainly be tempted to interpret deeply ████
████ autobiographical messages amid the stories of ████
████ love and loss that Porter has composed for Be ████
████ Good, Porter is quick to point out that he is ████
████ more painter than photographer. ôMy songs may ████
████ start from a place of personal experience,ö he ████
████ explains, but he uses his poetic license ████
████ freely. ôI try not to impose any particular ████
████ perspective on the music. I want listeners to ████
████ be affected each in his or her own way, and ████
████ moved as much by what can be read in between ████
████ the lines as what the lyrics say.ö ████
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