TAKE ME TO THE ALLEY (Blue Note) 8/10 Gregory Porter’s singing and song-writing may have been spawned by a love of jazz, but r&b elements have grown ever stronger until Marvin Gaye now seems at least much of a precursor as Nat King Cole. The lavishly romantic streak present in…
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ATMOSPHEROS (Move) 8.5/10 What a sound! If a boa constrictor could sing it might sound something like Christopher Young’s bass clarinet. Often this instrument is moody or demur, but in Young’s mouth – and on this reverb-laden recording – it becomes monstrous, boasting an urgency that continually blisters the music’s…
The Basement, September 28 8.5/10 Ears are almost too small to accommodate this voice. In fact it seems to transcend the auditory sense altogether, having the sort of solidity you usually associate with objects: with big, physical things. Hell, Donald Trump could build his crazy wall out of Gregory Porter’s…