Gregory Porter: Take Me to the Alley review – genre-straddling true grit

The jazz singer finds pop success by resolutely following his own pathThere’s something striking about the press reviews of singer-songwriter Gregory Porter’s third album, Liquid Spirit (2013). They’re all written by specialist jazz critics, full of references to the singer’s rhythmic phrasing, the tasty call-and-response between bass and vocals and the steady eighth-note strut in the right hand of the title track’s piano solo. Nothing wrong with that, of cours...

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