Issues of Life: Features and Remixes
2014 compilation album by Gregory Porter
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Issues of Life: Features and Remixes is a compilation album by American jazz musician and singer Gregory Porter.
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| Released | September 15, 2014 | |||
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| Length | 68:53 | |||
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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
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |