We’d tell you\u00a0Gregory\u00a0Porter is back, but you probably already knew. You probably felt the earth rumbling, announcing the man’s bone-deep baritone, or you felt the air change as the warmth of his sound filled the atmosphere like a hug from above.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All Rise<\/span><\/i>, Porter\u2019s Grammy\u00ae-nominated sixth studio album, marks a return to original songwriting\u2014heart-on-sleeve lyrics imbued with everyday philosophy and real-life detail, set to a stirring mix of jazz, soul, blues, and gospel. It follows 2017’s\u00a0<\/span>Nat King Cole & Me<\/span><\/i>, a Grammy\u00ae-nominated collection of songs performed or inspired by the legendary Cole. The Grammy\u00ae-stacking star\u2014who’s dined with Stevie Wonder and sung for the Queen of England\u2014remains blue-collar by blood. One of eight siblings raised by a minister mother in a poor part of Bakersfield, the young Porter found his voice both by singing in church and by studying his mother\u2019s Nat King Cole records at home.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Though Porter had an acclaimed role in the original 1999 Broadway cast of\u00a0<\/span>It\u00a0Ain’t\u00a0Nothin’\u00a0But\u00a0the Blues<\/span><\/i>\u2014and staged his own\u00a0<\/span>Nat King Cole & Me<\/span><\/i>\u00a0musical in 2004\u2014it was inevitable that he’d became known for his songs. That was made abundantly clear when both of Porter’s indie albums\u20142010’s\u00a0<\/span>Water\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and 2012’s\u00a0<\/span>Be Good<\/span><\/i>\u2014received Grammy\u00ae nominations, paving the way for his world-beating 2013 Blue Note debut,\u00a0<\/span>Liquid Spirit<\/span><\/i>, which won the Grammy\u00ae for Best Jazz Vocal Album. He hasn’t let down his legion of fans since, whether collaborating with Disclosure on\u00a0\u201cHolding On,\u201d\u00a0scoring another Grammy\u00ae for\u00a0<\/span>Take Me to the Alley<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(2016), or\u00a0telling his life story through Cole’s songbook.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’d tell you\u00a0Gregory\u00a0Porter is back, but you probably already knew. You probably felt the earth rumbling, announcing the multiple Grammy\u00ae winner’s bone-deep baritone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[27],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Scottsdale Center For The Performing Arts","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsdaleperformingarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}