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RIP: Dr. James Abbington: Black Sacred Music Scholar, Musician, Music Minister, Author, Editor
JGM reports yet another significant loss to the gospel music community and, for me, the loss of a friend: the passing of Dr. James Abbington on September 27, 2025.
JGM Pick of the Week: August 4, 2025
“Soul War” Gerren Lavey Independent (release date: July 25, 2025)
Dorinda Clark-Cole and Vincent Bohanan Set to Host Stellar Nominee Pre-Show Dinner and Awards at the National Museum of African American Music
RADIO AWARDS HOSTED BY LONNIE HUNTER; PRE-SHOW RED CARPET HOSTED BY META WASHINGTON & RIZZO SPECIAL PERFORMANCES AND GUEST APPEARANCES BY: ERICA CAMPBELL, MICAH LEE, TASHA PAGE LOCKHART, LISA KNOWLES-SMITH, EVVIE MCKINNEY, DOE, LUCINDA MOORE, MARTHA MUNIZZI, TED & SHERI AND MORE (July 29, 2025) Nashville, TN - The 40th [...]
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Recent Posts
RIP: Dr. James Abbington: Black Sacred Music Scholar, Musician, Music Minister, Author, Editor
JGM reports yet another significant loss to the gospel music community and, for me, the loss of a friend: the passing of Dr. James Abbington on September 27, 2025.
JGM Pick of the Week: August 4, 2025
“Soul War” Gerren Lavey Independent (release date: July 25, 2025)
Dorinda Clark-Cole and Vincent Bohanan Set to Host Stellar Nominee Pre-Show Dinner and Awards at the National Museum of African American Music
RADIO AWARDS HOSTED BY LONNIE HUNTER; PRE-SHOW RED CARPET HOSTED BY META WASHINGTON & RIZZO SPECIAL PERFORMANCES AND GUEST APPEARANCES BY: ERICA CAMPBELL, MICAH LEE, TASHA PAGE LOCKHART, LISA KNOWLES-SMITH, EVVIE MCKINNEY, DOE, LUCINDA MOORE, MARTHA MUNIZZI, TED & SHERI AND MORE (July 29, 2025) Nashville, TN - The 40th [...]
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Although Mississippi quartet maven and radio host Isaac Lindsey goes solo on “Glad to be in the Service,” he stays not only “in the service” but solidly in the quartet mode.
The Atlanta-based but South Carolina-born worship leader Quianna Crute returns with another single, “I Am Your Music.”
“There Wouldn’t Be a Me” Shonda English Gospel Diva Music (release date: January 23, 2024)
Clocking in at less than ten minutes, OMARI is an affectionate love letter, wrapped in swaddling Christian pop and R&B, from a first-time father to his son.
Congratulations to the 2025 GRAMMY Awards nominees in the Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music Group
“Never Turn Back” Gregory G. Pearson feat. Angelena Starks Inner Court Music (release date: September 15, 2023)
LATEST 5 STAR REVIEWS
Various Artists Motown Christmas Motown Gospel (2014) www.motowngospel.com By Bob Marovich Motown Christmas is the best yuletide album I have listened to in years. Gifted executive producer Aaron W. Lindsey (who also plays, writes, and sings on the album) seamlessly blends the old and the new with the sacred and secular to create an overall [...]
Bessie Jones with the Georgia Sea Island Singers and Others Get In Union: Recordings by Alan Lomax 1959-1966 Tompkins Square (released, October 28, 2014) www.tompkinssquare.com By Bob Marovich Students of ethnomusicology and folk music enthusiasts fortunate enough to hear the two or three LPs of Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers can tell [...]
Lecrae Anomaly Reach Records (2014) www.reachrecords.com By Bob Marovich Lecrae’s new CD, Anomaly, is Christian music’s most incisively honest, but at the same time most bravely hopeful, project this year. To Lecrae, being an anomaly, being an outsider, is both an advantage and disadvantage. On one hand, anomalies are outcasts who don’t fit in. At [...]
Evangelist Nelson Larkins & God’s Posse The Kind of God We Serve: Live in Chicago TREWWORKS Music Group/Deznell Music Group (2011) www.cdbaby.com/cd/nelsonlarkinsgodsposse By Bob Marovich It is always a pleasure to hear a live gospel quartet album that truly captures the excitement of a group having church. Such an album is The Kind of God [...]
Various Artists The Best of Revelation Records: 1959-1962 Narro Way Records (released September 16, 2014) www.cityhallrecords.com www.gospelfriend.com By Bob Marovich Mention the name Bobby Robinson to popular music historians, and you will hear how he founded a number of New York-based record labels, including Whirling Disc, Fury, Enjoy, and Red Robin, and released classic hits [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
“Do You Know the Man” | Harlem Gospel Travelers | Colemine Records (release date: October 18, 2022)
“Jesus I’ll Never Forget” | Zak Williams & 1/Akord feat. Lowell Pye | Enon Music Group (release date: October 7, 2022)
“View the City REMIX” | RiZen | DAF Entertainment Group (2022)
“Believer” Jenise La Vonne Independent (release date: August 26, 2022) www.jeniselavonne.com By Robert M. Marovich “Believer” is indie gospel artist Jenise La Vonne’s best single to date. It has it all: a powerful open, sturdy vocals, compelling lyrics, solid song structure, and chart-quality production. To a loping rhythm, Jenise declares freedom from sin and her [...]
“Holy” Grant Allison IV One Nation Under God Records (release date: July 31, 2019) www.grantallisoniv.com By Robert M. Marovich Once again, JGM digs deep into Chicago worship pastor Grant Allison’s catalogue and comes up with “Holy.” The atmospheric P&W outing is based on Philippians 2:10 and Hebrews 13:8. Its simple melody, singable chorus, and dramatic [...]
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Robert Marovich
In A City Called Heaven, gospel announcer and music historian Robert Marovich shines a light on the humble origins of a majestic genre and its indispensable bond to the city where it found its voice: Chicago.
By Bob Marovich In 1970, Evangelist Myrna Summers burst on the gospel music scene on the strength of “God Gave Me a Song,” a composition she wrote and performed with the Interdenominational Youth Choir of Washington, DC and Maryland. It was so popular, Atlantic Records handed her a recording contract. The song earned a Grammy [...]
Last week, Deitrick Haddon spoke with Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music about his new album, Masterpiece, which Entertainment One will release this Friday, November 6. JGM: Masterpiece, the album, is being described as sort of a musical maturation on your part. Is that a fair assumption? DH: Absolutely. It definitely reflects where [...]
Photo Credit: Getty Images By Bob Marovich When tragedy struck Regina Love, it hit hard. She lost her son, father, and mother back to back. In 2014, a nephew committed suicide. That’s when a “still, small voice” within her—“I knew it was God,” she told the Journal of Gospel Music—persuaded her to renew [...]
JGM announces the passing of gospel quartet singer and group leader Robert Dixon of the Salem Travelers.
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn of the transition of gospel singer Ms. C. Ashley Brown-Lawrence.
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