Getting into his groove
HOW apt that one of the headline acts at this year’s Guinness Jazz Festival is a certain Mr Porter. How apt also, that one of Guinness’ best-known slogans is “good things come to those who wait”.
Gregory Porter has waited almost half his adult life to become an overnight sensation. The 41-year-old jazz singer released his first album Water just two years ago and it created such a stir that, like a river in spate, it burst its banks, crossing many musical boundaries before reaching its blue water moment when it received a Grammy nomination.
