Take Me to the Alley
| Take Me to the Alley | ||||
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| Released | May 6, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | September 28 – October 1, 2015 | |||
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 51:18 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.6/10 |
| Metacritic | 81/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz | |
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| The Guardian | |
| Irish Examiner | 4/5 |
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| The National | |
| Pitchfork | 6.7/10 |
| PopMatters | 9/10 |
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."