Gregory Porter

In the organizer's words:

The world star live at the Lüneburg Kultursommer

Gregory Porter is one of the indispensable greats of contemporary jazz. His stunning voice, which is equally at home in soul, blues and gospel, immediately turns every song into a Porter song, regardless of whether it is an original composition or a song by someone else. As a songwriter, he also succeeds effortlessly in combining all these genres into his own unmistakable 'Gregory Porter Sound'. His profound lyrics are deliberately universal and exclude no one - and thus speak to almost everyone from the soul.

The global success of the two-time Grammy award winner from Bakersfield, California, is therefore anything but surprising: his albums Liquid Spirit and its successor Take Me To The Alley have been showered with precious metal awards. After Nat King Cole & Me, his no less successful, wonderful tribute to the music of Nat King Cole, Gregory Porter released All Rise in 2020, an album full of his own compositions, "Is there really no limit to this man's talent?" asked the British Jazz Journal when it presented Gregory Porter's album "All Rise". "The phenomenon that is Gregory Porter is getting bigger and better. [...] This is more than a good album - it's a great one." In other words, the four long years that Porter fans have been waiting for an album of new originals from the singer since "Take Me To The Alley" have paid off in full. The Californian star's songwriting has become even better, more pointed and at the same time more varied. "You could say I've gone the whole hog here," says the 48-year-old proudly. And it is unmistakable at every moment how comfortable he felt doing it. Like a contemporary Marvin Gaye, he blurs the dividing lines between jazz, soul, gospel, rhythm'n'blues and pop on "All Rise" and strings together catchy tunes of captivating quality.