Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Experience is at the heart of professionalism; life at the very centre of a good story or lyric and understanding the very point of music; bring all those facets of a person’s ability together and what the result might look like is Gregory Porter. It certainly won’t sound like the one of the Jazz/Soul greats of the modern age for nobody can be as remarkably clear and beautifully astute as him and in his new album, Take Me To The Alley, all that refinement, class and specialist insight comes rushing out to greet the listener in all its abundant glory.