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“New Jerusalem” – The Soul Messengerz
It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything on the Soul Messengerz, but “New Jerusalem” gives us that opportunity, even if the song was first introduced by the men about two years ago.
From Legacy to Global Impact: Inaugural bamX-Black Music Week Launches in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA (March 3, 2026) — Atlanta will take center stage this May with the launch of bamX — Black Music Week, a citywide cultural experience celebrating the legacy, global influence, and future of Black American music. Taking place May 25–June 2, 2026, the inaugural week coincides with Africa [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – March 2, 2026
With an old-fashioned gospel quartet name but a style that blends old- and new-school, the Echoaires introduce “I Promised Jesus” with an explosion of sound before the song settles into the quintessential quartet backbeat.
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“New Jerusalem” – The Soul Messengerz
It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything on the Soul Messengerz, but “New Jerusalem” gives us that opportunity, even if the song was first introduced by the men about two years ago.
From Legacy to Global Impact: Inaugural bamX-Black Music Week Launches in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA (March 3, 2026) — Atlanta will take center stage this May with the launch of bamX — Black Music Week, a citywide cultural experience celebrating the legacy, global influence, and future of Black American music. Taking place May 25–June 2, 2026, the inaugural week coincides with Africa [...]
JGM Pick of the Week – March 2, 2026
With an old-fashioned gospel quartet name but a style that blends old- and new-school, the Echoaires introduce “I Promised Jesus” with an explosion of sound before the song settles into the quintessential quartet backbeat.
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“Broken Habits” KamSam The Unstoppable Music (release date: December 16, 2025) By Robert M. Marovich Vulnerability, faith, and gratitude gush out of London-based gospel singer Patrice Tate-Samuel, aka KamSam, as [...]
Jonathan Nelson has inked a recording contract with Tyscot Records’ Tyscot Worship imprint.
When I heard the news that Richard Smallwood passed away today, it was as if church bells stopped tolling.
My Truth offers musical variety, simple messages of faith, bright singing, and authentic energy.
The Journal of Gospel Music was saddened to learn of the passing of quartet singer Jeffrey Newberry on December 14, 2025. He was 69 years old.
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Various Artists Gospel, Vol. 6: Female Gospel Groups 1940-1962 Fremeaux & Associes (2022) http://www.fremeaux.com By Robert M. Marovich If it weren’t for women, there might not be gospel music as we know it today. A gutsy statement, but accurate. For every Thomas Dorsey, Theodore Frye, and James Cleveland, there were dozens of women who, denied [...]
Various Artists Malaco 50th Celebration Malaco Music Group (release date: February 25, 2022) www.malaco.com By Robert M. Marovich The nearly two-hour Malaco 50th Celebration two CD set (and companion DVD) is one of the best releases thus far this year. Recorded live on July 12, 2018, at the record company’s golden anniversary gala at Thalia [...]
Dedicated Men of Zion The Devil Don’t Like It https://fatpossum.com/collections/bible-tire-recording-co (release date: March 3, 2022) By Robert M. Marovich On The Devil Don’t Like It, their follow-up to 2020’s Can’t Turn Me Around, the Dedicated Men of Zion quartet breathes new life into a handful of gospel classics by fitting them with arrangements that sound [...]
Maranda Curtis Die to Live Butterfly Works / Red Alliance Media / Fair Trade Services Release date: February 18, 2022 www.iammaranda.com By Robert M. Marovich Although his declaration doesn’t appear until several minutes into the album, Bishop John Francis essentially states the theme of Maranda Curtis’s new album Die to Live. After quoting John 12:24, [...]
Javon Jackson The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni Solid Jackson (release date: February 18, 2022) https://www.javonjackson.com https://nikki-giovanni.com By Robert M. Marovich The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni is a Black History Month treat from a jazz combo led by Javon Jackson, saxophonist and former member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and the iconic poet and [...]
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
Amy Hillis’ “Thousand Tongues” is a sweetly-sung song of praise with lithe piano backing and a heartwarming string arrangement that tenderly embraces the melody.
“God Won’t” Autumn Nelon feat. the Issacs Daywind Records (release date: April 18, 2025)
Although Washington, DC-based singer Keith Moore starts “I’m Better Now” quietly and cautiously, it’s not long before he’s singing the stuffing out of this gospel ballad on Jesus as the source of strength, overcoming, and personal victory.
Nearly dying from hypothermia while hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2019 infuses the message music of singer-songwriter Anya Lee.
“Jesus” Eldrick Rodgers feat. Michelle Prather Independent (release date: August 30, 2024)
Conversations with the Gospel Legends: Delores Scott
On our latest episode of "Conversations with the Gospel Legends," we talk with singer Delores Scott, member of the 'Ship, the Tommies, and an altogether integral part of Chicago's gospel community. Special thanks to Rev. Harold Bailey, Mr. Clarence McMillon, and the PCC Network for making this broadcast possible.
Conversations with the Gospel Legends – Rev. Dr. Stanley Keeble
On this episode of "Conversations with the Gospel Legends," the Reverend Dr. Stanley Keeble talks about his days as an accompanist, as part of the Fellowship M.B. Church music ministry, his Voices of Triumph group, his mentor Willie Webb, and the Chicago gospel scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Conversations [...]
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 Like Beatles and Bob Dylan purists, fans of gospel’s celebrated Clark Sisters know every harmony, every vocal ornamentation, and every nuance of every singer on every song by heart—almost better than the artists themselves. No pressure on Donald Lawrence, musical director of The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel. The biopic premieres [...]
By Bob Marovich From time to time, such as on major holidays or when the young people’s choir was singing, young Gloria Fowles and her family accompanied their grandmother to Abyssinian Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. At Abyssinian, they would listen to sermons from its pastor, the Reverend Raphus P. Means, and gospel music [...]
By Bob Marovich The sacred-secular divide in music is a uniquely modern conception, and it misses the point. Daddys favorite naked In West Africa, where most enslaved Africans came from, all music was sacred and all music was secular. There was no distinction…until the music came to America during the African Diaspora and distinctions based [...]
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Henry Jackson DMus--who transitioned from labor to glory on September 18, 2025 at age 80.
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.
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