Singers Make Their Mark At Newport Jazz Festival
Gregory Porter, José James, Jazzmeia Horn, Charenée Wade, Andra Day, Alicia Olatuja Tell Stories Through Song August 3 - 5
Newport, RI , July 17, 2018 – For the past six decades, the Newport Jazz Festival has been the premier showcase for jazz’s most supremely loved vocalists, from Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, to Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. And, this year’s edition of the festival continues in that hallowed tradition.
Whether he’s channeling the message music of Gil Scott-Heron or Joe Williams’ upsouth urbanity, the two-time, Grammy Award-winning Gregory Porter’s emergence on the scene in the last decade confirms that he is one of the coolest and most compelling vocalists of his generation. In a Marvin Gaye minute, this California-born crooner can deliver a lyric that spans from the profound question “What’s Goin’ On” to the provocative proclamation “Let’s Get it On.” And, when Porter takes to the Fort Adams stage on Sunday, August 5, he’ll give the audience more of that sweet sound heard on his 2017 Nat King Cole tribute CD, sonically shaped by Porter’s silken, syncopated soul and vivid vocals.
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