Jennifer Porter

Sun Come and Shine Redux

Overton Music

Jennifer Nichole Porter is an award-winning musician, actor and screenwriter best known for her movies “The Langoliers” (1995), “Mr. Barrington” (2003), “40 West” (2011), and “Ballad Of Ida And Doob” (1999). A musician’s musician blessed with a beautiful voice, Jennifer has performed a repertoire that spans from Jazz and Blues to Country and Opera. She has sung with Classical and Jazz Orchestras, including the world-famous Glenn Miller Orchestra. Jennifer however considers herself a roots musician and is still most at home singing at the piano while banging out an old blues tune in a red-hot 88 style. Jennifer has recorded ten albums to date. Her last, “Yes I Do”, was well received by media and radio and placed #1 on the Roots Music Report’s Jazzy Blues chart for over twenty weeks, and reviews were obtained internationally. Jennifer performed in the stage show “Always…Patsy Cline”, and also holds a second degree black belt in Tai Jujitsu.

Originally released in 2011, this version of “Sun Come and Shine” has been thoroughly enhanced. Opening with the title track her voice is truly beautiful, as she plays the B-3 organ. Her ensemble on the track and through out much of the recording includes George Naha, guitar; Miho Nobuzane, piano; Rob Paparozzi, harmonica; Wilbur Bascombe, bass; and Bernard Purdie, drums and percussion. Backing vocalists include Audrey Wheeler Downing, Layonne Holmes, and Kim Davis. “Sun Come and shine in my door, let your light creep gently cross the floor, ’til my thoughts don’t scare me no more”.

“Show Me Your Love” features Steve Jankowski, Flugelhorn; while Jennifer sings “Let it mingle, let it linger, let it sparkle, let it shimmer, let it shine around this broken-hearted singer, and show me your love”. On “When It’s All Been Said And Done”, Jennifer sings “For every love I’ve lived, I’ve formed a scar, sometimes I hurt so bad, I’ve gone too far, I should have told you you’re my rising sun, when it’s all been said and done”. “Satin Shoes”, includes the horns of Jankowski and Timko; with Dan Boone, bass; “She of almond eyes pleasing is such a sweet child, who is lost in the company of men steps out in her Irish shawl to smile over bottles of wine raising eyebrows in the company of men”.

“Stop Your Talkin'”, with the horns of Jankowski and Timko, and more harp from Paparozzi; “You’re talkin’, talkin’, talkin’, hardly pausing for your breath, didn’t your mother tell you, some things are better left unsaid”. On “In And Out With You” with the horns “Moi,et tres beau toi, strolling arm in arm down the Champs Elysees, then to the Seine, round the bend, everything’s OK, pause and stretch my bare legs to the sky, smile at all the people passing by, with you I do it’s true”. “Bitter New York Night” includes the tenor saxophone of Tom Timko, as once again we get to hear Jennifer’s beautiful voice, “And on that bitter New York night, I heard the buzz of neon lights, I felt your hand so warm and tight, and the snow falling down, it’s coming down”.

“You’re So Easy To Be With” with the horns and C.J. Chenier on Accordion “so easy to sink right in, to go with the flow the irrestible glow of your beautiful skin”. “Something On Your Mind” is the only cover, written by Dino Valenti, it features Christian McBride on Upright bass, “Yesterday, anyway you made it, was just fine, so you turned your days into nighttime, didn’t you know, you can’t make it without ever even trying, and something’s on your mind, isn’t it?”

On the closer “I’ll Be Here” featuring Cindy Cashdollar on Pedal Steel, and Angelo “Buddy” Savino, bass; Jennifer sings “When it’s night on the hill, you will find me here still, pacing restless as I have done for years, well as you go, so will I, ’til the day I die, just close your eyes and I’ll be here, Oh, you can turn around ’cause I’ll be here”.

Jennifer Porter’s “Sun Come And Shine Redux” documents her extraordinary talents as she is a great vocalist, musician and songwriter, these songs are poetic reflections of her experiences, and a change from the harder blues, we are accustomed to listening to these days. Poetry in motion.

Richard Ludmerer
Contributing Editor/Making A Scene

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