Still Rising - The Collection

アイコニックな帽子とエモーショナルなヴォーカルで、デビュー以降人々を魅了し続ける現代最高峰のシンガー、グレゴリー・ポーター。本作はそんな彼の魅力を余すところなく詰め込んだ、キャリア初のベスト・アルバム!

ディスク1には2010年のデビュー作『ウォーター』から最新作『オール・ライズ』までのヒット曲を厳選してセレクトし、更に新曲5曲やカヴァー曲などの新録音を全9曲収録。そしてディスク2は、モービーやジェイミー・カラム、ナット・キング・コール、エラ・フィッツジェラルドといった錚々たるシンガーとのデュエット音源を集めたスペシャルな内容。
初めてグレゴリー・ポーターを聴く人から生粋のファンまで幅広い層に最適な、必携の作品!

■ジュエル・ケース仕様

Part career-spanning retrospective and part companion album to 2020s All Rise, 2021s Still Rising: The Collection brings together some of vocalist Gregory Porters most beloved and potent tracks with newly recorded songs. Along with many solo tracks, there is also a second disc showcasing his ebullient duets with singers like Lalah Hathaway, Renee Fleming, Dianne Reeves, and others. Of the new tracks featured on Still Rising, we get the gospel influenced I Will, the romantic piano ballad Bad Girl Love, and the kinetic pop anthem Dry Bones, the latter of which splits the difference between contemporary hits by Fitz & the Tantrums and the 80s new wave-infused work of Hall & Oates. Of the retrospective material, we get cuts like Illusion off Porters 2010 debut Water, No Love Dying off 2013s Grammy-winning Liquid Spirit, and his cover of the standard L.O.V.E. off 2017s Nat King Cole & Me. We also get fan favorite duets, including Insanity, his deeply soulful collaboration with Lalah Hathaway off 2016s Grammy-winning Take Me To The Alley, as well as Water Under the Bridges with Laura Mvula off Liquid Spirit. There are also several previously unreleased covers here, including a live version of Stings Its Probably Me and an infectious rendition of the R&B classic My Babe. Most of these tracks feature Porters longtime backing ensemble of pianist Chip Crawford, bassist Jahmal Nichols, drummer Emanuel Harrold, and saxophonist Tivon Pennicott. While in no way a standard greatest hits compilation, Still Rising: The Collection nonetheless manages to further illuminate Porters decade-long rise from buzzed-about jazz star to one of the most acclaimed and genre-defying vocalists of his generation. ~ Matt Collar