JGM Pick of the Week – January 9, 2023
“All Things Are Working” Joe Pace feat. Callie Day Pace Music Group (release date: November 18, 2022)
“All Things Are Working” Joe Pace feat. Callie Day Pace Music Group (release date: November 18, 2022)
It is with deep sadness that we join the family of Kevin Lemons in announcing his transition early this morning. Kevin Lemons was not only an extraordinary, highly respected songwriter, artist and choir director, he was a devoted and loving husband, a trusted leader of his music ministry and a pillar of gospel music’s vital choir scene.
(Las Vegas, NV) Power 88.1 FM announced that Grammy and Stellar Award-winning recording artist Brent Jones is joining Las Vegas’ top-ranked urban radio station starting January 8 as the host of the newly-minted “The Brent Jones Show.”Reaching more than 2.7 million listeners in the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area, Power [...]
Backed by a ferocious troupe of musicians, indie blues performers Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger cover classics from a certain gritty guitar evangelist and also offer newly-composed tunes on their eleven-track Revelation.
The Christmas anthem – Gregory G. Pearson Noel – Sylvia Fedrick
Picks: “Step Back and Watch Him Work,” “When All God’s Children (Mom’s Song)” (bonus track)
Christmas spirit filled the air when the McDonald’s Inspiration Celebration Gospel Tour: Homecoming Edition hit Houston, Texas, on December 2.
Building Your Music Business Basic FoundationHenry HarrisSpiritmedia LLC (release date: September 25, 2022)By Robert M. MarovichBuilding Your Music Business Basic Foundation is a brief primer written by music industry veteran and educator Henry Harris. He shares practical general knowledge, gained over years of experience, to help independent artists learn the [...]
Johnny Ruffin Jr.Just Johnny (EP)JBP Music (release date: July 23, 2022)By Robert M. MarovichAlthough the EP Just Johnny is a solo outing for North Carolina’s Johnny Ruffin Jr., it has a quartet sensibility to it. Ruffin has a quartet lead singer’s vocal intensity, complete with growls, evangelistic shouts, and flights [...]
Nineteen years ago, Suzanne Mallare Acton, music director and conductor of Too Hot to Handel: The Gospel Messiah, was in a real jam. Her pianist, Detroit jazz legend Harold McKinney, pulled out of the jazz-gospel interpretation of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah just days before opening night. Needing a musician who could read a score and improvise, she picked up the phone and called the one pianist she knew could fill both bills: Alvin Waddles.