Take Me to the Alley

Take Me to the Alley
Studio album by
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
Metacritic81/100
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz
AllMusic
The Telegraph
Exeposé
The Guardian
Irish Examiner4/5
The Irish Times
The National
Pitchfork6.7/10
PopMatters9/10

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."