Gregory Porter Announces Las Vegas Debut: August 25, 2023 at The Smith Center

Presented by Jazz Cruises, Grammy Award-winner Gregory Porter (widely heralded as one of the premier male vocalists in contemporary jazz) will make his Las Vegas debut at The Smith Center on Friday, August 25, 2023, at 7:30pm. Porter will be joined by American comedian and actor Alonzo Bodden, known for winning the grand prize in the third season of the reality-television series “Last Comic Standing.” Tickets are now available to the public at TheSmithCenter.com. 

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Gregory Porter was raised in Bakersfield, California, and began singing in small jazz clubs in San Diego and later New York City, where his music career began to ascend with the release of his first two albums—Water (2010) and Be Good (2012). In 2013, he released his Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit which quickly grew into a global phenomenon, selling more than a million albums and earning Porter his first GRAMMY Award with NPR declaring him “America’s Next Great Jazz Singer.” His 2016 follow-up Take Me To The Alley won Porter his second GRAMMY for Best Vocal Jazz Album and firmly established him as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer-songwriter. In 2017, Porter released the heartfelt tribute album Nat King Cole & Me and in 2020 returned to his original songwriting on the uplifting ALL RISE. Porter has hosted the podcast The Hang, as well as his own cooking show The PorterHouse. 

A regular panel member on NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me,” Alonzo Bodden has been making audiences around the country laugh for more than 20 years. Alonzo’s latest (2022) comedy special “Alonzo Bodden: Stupid Don’t Get Tired,” was released on YouTube by Helium Comedy Studios. In 2019, he starred in his fourth stand-up special, “Alonzo Bodden: Heavy Lightweight,” which premiered exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.