Gregory Porter review — this old-school, jazzy entertainment is hard to beat
Gregory Porter is the quintessential Jools Holland guest. The accessible jazz and soul, the good cheer, the smooth professionalism … everything about the 53-year-old Californian's Royal Albert Hall show exuded the kind of musical charm that goes down a storm on Later. He sticks to a people-pleasing template, but then Porter is just so good at pleasing people that it's hard to be cynical about it.
'We're honoured to be in the house with these beautiful people,' he announced during the appropriately named Revival: this opening song was pure soul revivalism, like Otis Redding at a supper club. 'Every song is ultimately about love,' he said before If Love Is Overrated, but he wasn't talking about the tangled realities of relationships. He
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