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      • 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.
      The album was recorded in Hollywood and New York City between September and October 2015. 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."


      Reception


      Writing for The Guardian, Alexis Petridis said:

      ... for all its easiness on the ear, – and there are moments when listening Take Me to the Alley feels like being mugged by a syrup sponge pudding – there’s something weirdly uncompromising about Porter’s music. He doesn’t bother with glossy production: Take Me to the Alley sounds fantastic, but that’s down to the warm spontaneity of an album that seems to have been recorded in six days. Nor does he dabble in radio-friendly pop covers – no scat-singing interpreter of the Coldplay songbook he. His own compositions proudly display his gospel roots – not the first genre you’d think of flaunting were you desperate for mainstream success. The title track offers up a parable about the second coming of Christ, its sternness at odds with the pacific piano playing and Alicia Olatuja's pillowy backing vocals; "In Heaven" undercuts the small hours loveliness of its muted trumpet with a lyric by Porter's cousin about death and redemption.


      Track listing


      All songs written by Gregory Porter, except where noted. Arrangements by Porter, Chip Crawford and Kamau Kenyatta, horns arranged by Kenyatta and Keyon Harrold.


      = Deluxe edition bonus tracks

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      = DVD bonus tracks

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      "Take Me to the Alley" (EPK) – 6:33
      "Don't Lose Your Steam" (Official Video) – 3:17
      The Making of "Don't Lose Your Steam" – 2:04
      "Don't Lose Your Steam" (1 Mic 1 Take) – 3:28
      "Holding On" (1 Mic 1 Take), featuring Kem – 4:10
      Don Was Interview (#"Take Me to the Alley") – 19:31


      Personnel


      Voice – Gregory Porter
      Piano – Chip Crawford
      Bass – Aaron James
      Drums – Emanuel Harrold
      Alto saxophone – Yosuke Sato
      Tenor saxophone – Tivon Pennicott
      Trumpet – Keyon Harrold
      Organ – Ondřej Pivec
      Voice – Alicia Olatuja
      Production
      Producers – Gregory Porter, Kamau Kenyatta
      Recording engineer – Jay Newland (at Sear Sound, NYC), Charlie Paakkari (at Capitol Studio B, LA)
      Assistant engineers – Grant Valentine and Richie Kennon (at Sear Sound)
      Mixing – Jay Newland (at Capitol Studio B)
      Additional musicians on Deluxe Edition's bonus tracks
      Guest vocals – Kem ("Holding On"), Lalah Hathaway ("Insanity")
      Bass, keyboard – Demetrius Nabors ("Holding On")
      Guitar – Darrell Crooks ("Insanity")
      Remix – Rex Rideout ("Insanity"), Fred Falke ("Don't Loose Your Steam")
      DVD
      Piano trio at Capitol Studio A on tracks 4 and 5 – Chip Crawford, Jahmal Nichols (bass), and Emanuel Harrold
      Guest vocals on 5 – Kem
      Video directors – Ali Muhammad (1), Nayip Ramos (2, 3), Possum Hill (4–6)
      Video producers – Thoro NYC (1), Decca Records France (2, 3), Daylan Williams (4–6)


      Charts




      References

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