Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn : Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter Image
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn : Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter Image

Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter

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We revisit our conversation with Gregory Porter. He’s a Grammy winning jazz singer, the pride of Bakersfield California and, until his junior year of college, he was an aspiring football player. When he joined us in 2018, he had recently recorded an album of standards made popular by Nat “King” Cole. He’ll tell Jesse about his deeply personal connection to one of America’s most iconic voices. Plus, what it was like to grow up in Bakersfield, California and how that’s influenced his lyrics. Gregory Porter’s new album All Rise is out on April 16th.