Gregory Porter: Soul Man, Pt II

Our previous interview with jazz/soul singer/songwriter Gregory was surely one of our best shows of 2012, and this second one picks up where the first left off. We talked about his precocious taste for jazz, performing gospel in church, the influence of his minister mother and her message of love even in the face of hate, turning life into song, and his seemingly meteoric – but actually long-in-the-making – rise on the jazz scene. We listened to some of Gregory's recorded music and some that hasn't been recorded (at least not until now), including his first original song, composed at the age of six.