Take Me to the Alley

Take Me to the Alley
Studio album by
Gregory Porter
ReleasedMay 6, 2016
RecordedSeptember 28 – October 1, 2015
Studio
GenreJazz
Length51:18
LabelBlue Note
Producer
  • Gregory Porter
  • Kamau Kenyatta
Gregory Porter chronology
Issues of Life: Features and Remixes
(2014) 		Take Me to the Alley
(2016) 		Nat King Cole & Me
(2017)
Singles from Take Me to the Alley
  1. "Don't Lose Your Steam"
    Released: 2016
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.6/10[1]
Metacritic81/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz[3]
AllMusic[4]
The Telegraph[5]
Exeposé[6]
The Guardian[7]
Irish Examiner4/5[8]
The Irish Times[9]
The National[10]
Pitchfork6.7/10[11]
PopMatters9/10[12]

Take Me to the Alley is the fourth studio album by Gregory Porter, released on May 6, 2016, through Blue Note Records. It earned Porter a 2017 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.[13]

The album was recorded in Hollywood and New York City between September and October 2015.[14] Porter worked alongside producer Kamau Kenyatta, with whom he first worked in the mid-1990s when he was a student at San Diego State University. Porter observed: "Kamau has been most instrumental in taking what I have and refining it... he's been great at offering encouragement to what I already have artistically."[15]

  1. ^ "Gregoy Porter: Take Me to the Alley". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  2. ^ "TAKE ME TO THE ALLEY by Gregory Porter". Metacritic. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  3. ^ Bilawsky, Dan (April 10, 2016). "Gregory Porter: Take Me To The Alley". All About Jazz. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Gregory Porter: Take Me to the Alley". Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  5. ^ McCormick, Neil (May 6, 2016). "Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley, review – the sweet sound of an old soul". The Telegraph. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  6. ^ Keat, Sam (May 7, 2016). "Album Review: Gregory Porter – Take Me To The Alley". Exeposé. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  7. ^ Petridis, Alexis (May 5, 2016). "Gregory Porter: Take Me to the Alley review – genre-straddling true grit". theguardian.com. Retrieved December 6, 2016 – via The Guardian.
  8. ^ O'Riordan, Alan (March 23, 2016). "Album Review: Gregory Porter – Take Me to the Alley". Irish Examiner. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  9. ^ Larkin, Cormac (May 18, 2016). "Gregory Porter: Take Me to the Alley review – enough jazz attitude to keep in with the in-crowd". The Irish Times. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  10. ^ Garratt, Rob (May 22, 2016). "Album review: Gregory Porter's Take Me to the Alley is ear pleasingly beautiful". The National. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  11. ^ Moore, Marcus J. (May 11, 2016). "Gregory Porter Take Me to the Alley". Pitchfork. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  12. ^ LAYMAN, WILL (May 10, 2016). "Gregory Porter: Take Me to the Alley". PopMatters. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
  13. ^ "2017 Grammy Awards: Complete list of nominees". latimes.com/. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
  14. ^ "Take Me to the Alley – Gregory Porter – Credits – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  15. ^ "Take Me To The Alley – Releases". Blue Note Records. Retrieved December 6, 2016.