Album Review: Gregory Porter - Take Me to the Alley

4/5

Gregory Porter has come a long way since he worked as a chef in his brother’s Brooklyn restaurant, just over a decade ago. His arrival among the not-so-swelled ranks of genuinely popular jazz singers was sealed in 2014, when his album Liquid Spirit, on Blue Note, won a Grammy.

It sold 100,000 copies in the UK alone, such transatlantic popularity explaining his double dates at the Olympia next week. May sees the release of Porter’s latest album Take Me to the Alley.