Issues of Life: Features and Remixes

Issues of Life: Features and Remixes
Compilation album by Gregory Porter
Released	September 15, 2014 (2014-09-15)
Genre	Vocal jazz jazz, R&B
Length	68:53
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
Source	Rating
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.	Title	Length
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. Matt Collar. "Gregory Porter – Issues of Life: Features and Remixes". AllMusic . Retrieved May 22, 2021.
2. Mike Hobart (October 17, 2014). "Gregory Porter: Issues of Life – review". Financial Times . Retrieved May 22, 2021.
3. John Fordham (September 18, 2014). "Gregory Porter Issues of Life: Features and Remixes review – an absorbing chronicle". The Guardian . Retrieved May 22, 2021.
4. Cormac Larkin (October 10, 2014). "Gregory Porter: Issues of Life - Features & Remixes". The Irish Times . Retrieved May 22, 2021.

External links

• Helmut Heuer (November 24, 2014). "Gregory Porter Issues Of Life – Features & Remixes". Jazz thing & blue rhythm. Retrieved May 22, 2021.