Brooklyn-born, Harlem-based vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Allan Harris returns with a stirring, singularly personal paean to Harlem and in particular his Aunt Kate's popular diner, Kate's Home Cooking, immortalised in the famous Francis Wolff cover shot for Jimmy Smith's classic 1959 Blue Note album, Home Cookin'. Situated in close proximity to the Apollo Theatre, and much frequented by many of the legendary musicians who performed there, the inexorable force of album opener ‘I Grew Up’ celebrates the diner where Harris spent most Sunday afternoons as a child, evoking an era when ‘Nina, Sarah and Ella, Duke and Basie would swing that's a fact’. Other standouts include Harris's glowing, soulful reworking of the title track from his album Open Up Your Mind and the powerful ‘Shallow Man’ in which his keen songwriter's ear for narrative detail comes strongly to the fore. Harris's ballad singing has always been especially striking, and this is evidenced here with ‘Autumn Has Found You’, a song which announces itself as a future standard. Penned by Harris in response to the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, the modern-day protest song ‘Run Through America’ brings this exceptional album to a close with a call to “take to the streets and shout out their names”. Produced by Kamau Kenyatta, and with each song imbued with personal meaning, the world-class credentials of Harris' band are evident from the get-go, with every horn flourish, drum fill and solo serving the song in the most empathetic way possible.