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“Too Hot to Handel” Indescribable, Says Pianist Alvin Waddles: “You Have to Experience It”
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.
Jason Williams Drops New Single “Out of This”
Sponsored Post: "Out of This" is the latest single from singer-songwriter Jason Williams. This song is a beautiful deeply personal and introspective ballad that appeals to listeners across all genres. Produced by Gospel Music Super Producer Derrick Stevenson, the song features the talented Jazmin Crumley and Tamara Lloyd on background [...]
Isaac Carree – No Risk No Reward
Isaac Carree No Risk No Reward Shanachie Entertainment Group (release date: March 20, 2020) www.shanachie.com By Bob Marovich Isaac Carree has bestowed upon his first solo album in seven years a very accurate title. And in so doing, he has scored his best solo recording to date. No Risk No [...]
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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“Too Hot to Handel” Indescribable, Says Pianist Alvin Waddles: “You Have to Experience It”
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.
Jason Williams Drops New Single “Out of This”
Sponsored Post: "Out of This" is the latest single from singer-songwriter Jason Williams. This song is a beautiful deeply personal and introspective ballad that appeals to listeners across all genres. Produced by Gospel Music Super Producer Derrick Stevenson, the song features the talented Jazmin Crumley and Tamara Lloyd on background [...]
Isaac Carree – No Risk No Reward
Isaac Carree No Risk No Reward Shanachie Entertainment Group (release date: March 20, 2020) www.shanachie.com By Bob Marovich Isaac Carree has bestowed upon his first solo album in seven years a very accurate title. And in so doing, he has scored his best solo recording to date. No Risk No [...]
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“Hannah’s Song”Bettie Murphy DraperFrom the Faith Walker Records CD Making Me Over (2011)http://www.taxi.com/faithwalkerVicksburg, Mississippi’s Bettie Murphy Draper delivers “Hannah’s Song” as a traditional gospel blues. While the lyrics are gospel, [...]
“Everything”Kezia AlfordFrom the CD Proverbs 31 (2011)http://www.keziaalford.com/To a light jazz piano combo, Greenville, Mississippi native Kezia Alford pulls on her life experience to assure us, in a smoky delivery, that [...]
Rev. Stef and JubilationJust Like Sunday Mornin’!http://www.jubilationinc.com/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.Rev. Stefanie Minatee and Jubilation have been around for a while but they earned national recognition in [...]
Chicago's storied Gospel Fest will return to normal size in 2012. See the story below.Gospel Fest back in 2012 - Chicago Sun-TimesThe story notes Pilgrim Baptist Church as the birthplace [...]
Spring Into Praise Mass ChoirUnder His WingsSpring Into Praise Publishing (2010)http://www.springintopraise.org/By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.When you think of denominations that front big, robust gospel choirs, the Seventh-day [...]
Rev. Joe Williams (Sons of the Birds, Dixie Hummingbirds) informed TBGB today that legendary quartet lead singers Clarence Fountain and Roscoe Robinson are interested in forming a new group of [...]
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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.
