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]
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)
