Pocket City
1992 studio album by Art Porter Jr.
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Pocket City is the debut album by the American musician Art Porter Jr., released in 1992.[1][2] Porter Jr. supported the album by touring with Lisa Stansfield.[3] Pocket City made Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.[4]
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| Released | May 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
| Studio | JHL Sound, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Smooth jazz/fusion | |||
| Label | Verve Forecast Records/PolyGram | |||
| Producer | Jeff Lorber | |||
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Production
The album was produced by Jeff Lorber.[5] Porter Jr. composed eight of its songs.[6] A video was shot for the title track.[7]
Critical reception
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "a suave, cool delight from finish to end, full of breezy and uptempo tunes as well as dreamy, romantic-type ballads."[10] The Washington Post wrote: "After a couple half-hearted attempts at ballads, Porter comes up with the likable 'Passion Sunrise', but Porter and his backing band never really let loose, save on an upbeat cover of Maxi Priest's 1990 hit, 'Close to You'."[11]
Track list
- Pocket City
- Inside Myself
- Unending
- Passion Sunrise
- Texas Hump
- Close to You
- Little People
- KGB
- Broken Promise
- Meltdown
- L.A.
Personnel
- Art Porter: alto and soprano saxophones
- Buzz Feiten: guitar
- Paul Pesco: guitar
- Oliver Leiber: guitar
- Mark "Breeze" Shapiro: guitar
- Alec Milstein: bass guitar
- Paulinho Da Costa: percussion
- Guy Eckstine: percussion
- Brigitte McWilliams: backing vocals
- Valerie Davis: backing vocals