Don Byron New Gospel QuintetLove, Peace, and SoulSavoy Jazz (2012)http://www.donbyron.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Jazz and gospel music are only a razor-thin line away from one another musically. At least they used to be. They were during the era of Thomas A. Dorsey and Roberta Martin. That is [...]
Andrea HelmsMoving ForwardMusic World Gospel (2012)www.musicworldgospel.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Moving Forward is the seven-track debut CD of BET Sunday Best Season 4 first runner-up Andrea Helms. Produced by H. Doobie Powell and released earlier this month, the album is a compilation of the contemporary gospel and P&W [...]
Congratulations to the McDonald Sisters, who recently won the Blockbuster Gold Cup Award at the Florence Civic Center on March 9, 2012! The group has also been asked to be a special guest for the 50th Birthday Celebration of Cedric Bailey of Rejoice Musical Soulfood.
“We Worship You”Cheneta JonesFrom the forthcoming CD Transformed (release date: May 22, 2012)www.realtalentmg.com“We Worship You” is another quietly breezy and melodic urban P&W single from Cheneta Jones, the emerging gospel singer-songwriter from St. Louis who some may know from her role as lead background singer for Tye Tribbett. To rumbling [...]
“One”Take 6From the Shanachie Entertainment CD One (2012)http://www.shanachie.com/Gymnastic. Youthful. Complex. Rhythmic. Playful. These are just a few descriptors for the iconic harmonies of Take 6, but let's face it: you know them when you hear them. Or, to borrow one of the group's metaphors from its new gospel single, “One:” “I don’t know [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog."What is it you think you see, when you see me?”This is the question Mary Mary, aka Tina and Erica Campbell, asks in their hit song, “God in Me.” It might as well be the theme for the sisters’ new reality [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.In 2002, Sipokazi Nxumalo, a young woman living in South Africa, had recently graduated from high school with plans to attend university.There was one problem: Sipokazi's mother was a single parent and, although she had supported her thus far, she did not have the [...]
“Somehow”Jermet “J.Cee” CampbellFrom the J-Musik CD Nah Compromise (2011)http://www.sonicbids.com/JCeeTo an invigorating Jamaican/African fusion beat with ringing guitar licks, Jermet “J.Cee” Campbell sings this song of encouragement to herself. “I know my breakthrough is on its way,” J.Cee sings, raps, and shouts like a reggae-flavored evangelist. She encourages others to jump [...]
Stephen HurdO That Men Would WorshipHurd the Word (Release date: March 20, 2012)www.hurdthewordmusic.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.O That Men Would Worship is urban P&W minister Stephen Hurd’s sixth CD but his first for his own label, Hurd the Word. The album is more than an assembly of [...]
“Awesome God”Maurette Brown ClarkFrom the AIR Records CD The Sound of Victory (2011)www.malaco.com“Awesome God” is a dramatic, emotional and slow-boiling P&W ballad from hitmaker Maurette Brown Clark (“It Ain’t Over”). The single belongs as much to the background vocalists as to Maurette because their harmonies go from sweet to commanding [...]
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