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Regina Belle – My Colorful Christmas
Regina BelleMy Colorful ChristmasTashi3 Entertainment / Altavoz Distribution(release date: November 1, 2022) Visit Site By Robert M. MarovichMy Colorful Christmas, the first yuletide album from GRAMMY Awardee Regina Belle, and issued on her own imprint, Tashi3 Entertainment, traverses mostly familiar holiday fare. Traditional carols and more recently-composed Christmas songs receive bubbly jazz and R&B arrangements tagged with improvisatory, and sometimes downright evangelistic, codas.Indeed, the spiritual codas from Belle and her background vocalists are what distinguish this album from other Christmas collections by popular singers. For example, Belle tags the Latin-flavored “Silent Night” with a sobering allusion to Easter when she [...]
RIP Billie Barrett Greenbey, Member of the Barrett Sisters
By Bob Marovich It is with heavy heart that I report the passing of Billie Barrett Greenbey today. She was a member of the award-winning gospel trio the Barrett Sisters. She had been in the hospital recently, but had come home and reports were encouraging. Alas, she is now singing [...]
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Regina Belle – My Colorful Christmas
Regina BelleMy Colorful ChristmasTashi3 Entertainment / Altavoz Distribution(release date: November 1, 2022) Visit Site By Robert M. MarovichMy Colorful Christmas, the first yuletide album from GRAMMY Awardee Regina Belle, and issued on her own imprint, Tashi3 Entertainment, traverses mostly familiar holiday fare. Traditional carols and more recently-composed Christmas songs receive bubbly jazz and R&B arrangements tagged with improvisatory, and sometimes downright evangelistic, codas.Indeed, the spiritual codas from Belle and her background vocalists are what distinguish this album from other Christmas collections by popular singers. For example, Belle tags the Latin-flavored “Silent Night” with a sobering allusion to Easter when she [...]
RIP Billie Barrett Greenbey, Member of the Barrett Sisters
By Bob Marovich It is with heavy heart that I report the passing of Billie Barrett Greenbey today. She was a member of the award-winning gospel trio the Barrett Sisters. She had been in the hospital recently, but had come home and reports were encouraging. Alas, she is now singing [...]
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Tallie Rogers Try Jesus Overboard Records (2011) By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. Tallie Rogers, sister of quartet singer Pastor Tim Rogers (of Tim Rogers and the Fellas), [...]
Hart RamseyMy Next HeartbeatN-Coded Music (2011)www.hartramseymusic.comBy Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog.The popularity of jazz keyboardist Hart Ramsey’s debut CD, Charge It to My Heart, surprised even the artist [...]
“I Command My Soul”The Spring Into Praise Mass ChoirFrom the CD Under His Wingshttp://www.springintopraise.org/“Gospel music is alive and well in the Seventh-day Adventist Church,” exclaims National Gospel Announcers Guild chair [...]
“Sanctified Mabel”Rickie Byars BeckwithFrom the CD Let My Soul Surrender: Grace Notes of a Journeywww.letmysoulsurrender.comWhat most intrigues me about Rickie Byars Beckwith’s “Sanctified Mabel” is its Memphis soul mojo, Beckwith’s [...]
By Bob Marovich for The Black Gospel Blog. They don’t call the gospel highway a rough road to travel for nothing. Amber Bullock can attest to that. It hasn’t been [...]
“No Words”Valerie Woodard Whole Armor Recordings (2011)(available on iTunes, CD Baby & her website)www.ValerieWoodard.comShe can’t put it in words, but she must. To a mesmerizing Middle Eastern-meets-R&B-meets-African-percussion arrangement, Valerie Woodard [...]
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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.
