JGM Music Hour – Episode 169
This episode includes music reviewed on JGM between mid-December 2022 and early February 2023.
“We Sound Crazy” Show Set to Premiere on Howard University Radio Network February 17
We Sound Crazy’s premiere broadcast will air Friday, February 17 at 8PM EST, followed by weekly airings Mondays and Fridays at 8PM EST.
RIP: Tyrone Porter, Member of the Christianaires, President of the GMWA Quartet Division
By Robert M. Marovich Tyrone Porter, member of the Christianaires gospel quartet and president of the GMWA Quartet Division, went on home to be with the Lord on February 14, 2023, after an extended battle with illness. Homegoing arrangements will be posted here when known. Meanwhile, here is a brief [...]
JGM Pick of the Week: February 13, 2023
“I Wanna Say Thank You” James Grear & Company feat. Maurette Brown Clark Blacksmoke Music Worldwide (release date: October 7, 2022)
“It Is Well” – Kergyma Community Choir
The Kergyma Community Choir’s “It Is Well” is inspired by and has the same message, but is not the same piece as, the classic nineteenth-century hymn that begins, “When peace like a river…”
“Lamb of God” – Brenda Jefferson feat. Stephen Hurd
The muscular-voiced Hurd who leads the call-and-response with the background vocalists on this rhythmically undulating song of praise.
JGM Pick of the Week: February 7, 2023
“He Brought Me Out” Quinten Simon Independent (release date: January 20, 2023)
Maverick City Music, Kirk Franklin Nearly Sweep 65th GRAMMYs in Gospel/Christian Categories
Here are the 65th Grammy winners in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian categories.
Animated Video Focuses on Gospel Aspect of Historic Wattstax Benefit Concert
Craft Recordings created an animated video of an Eric Mercury track “I Shall Not Be moved (Live From Wattstax).” The video focuses on the gospel aspect of the historic Wattstax Benefit Concert in Los Angeles on August 20, 1972. Created in conjunction with the annual Watts Summer Festival to commemorate [...]
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