Gregory Porter - All Rise (Deluxe) (2020) [Hi-Res]

With his sixth album, Gregory Porter delivers once more a perfect dose of jazz, soul, rhythm’n’blues, pop and gospel. In addition to being gifted with a voice of pure velvet (it’s clichéd, but it’s true), the Californian who knows Great Black Music like the back of his band is also a veritable writer. And in these present (troubled) times, his pen, often synonymous with hope and light, generates healing sounds akin to rejuvenating baths such as on Revival Song, a soft of neo-gospel hymn the embraces the soul and frees the body. A similar sense of wellbeing is also present when Porter dons his crooner lover suit such as on If Love Is Overrated or when he channels Marvin Gaye and George Benson on Faith In Love. Produced with class by Troy Miller (Laura Mvula, Jamie Cullum, Emili Sande), All Rise propels the American toward an increased world recognition and, on this album, Porter reaches audiences well outside the jazz sphere.