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Martha Munizzi – Best Days
Martha Munizzi Best Days Martha Munizzi Music (release date: July 29, 2021) www.marthamunizzi.com By Robert M. Marovich Martha Munizzi’s latest live album, Best Days, is a well-orchestrated worship service that focuses on the reasons to celebrate, not worry, in the midst of today’s uncertainty. The paradox of joy in the midst of a raging storm permeates the project—after all, the album was recorded in November 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. It’s also the ultimate test of faith, Munizzi teaches, in songs that are energetic and pop-inflected with beefy instrumental flourishes. She assumes pastoral authority, exhorting during songs, encouraging [...]
Pastor Bobby Cohen & Men of God – Dream Come Alive
Pastor Bobby Cohen & Men of God Dream Come Alive Cohen Records Available at digital music outlets By Bob Marovich “Born Again,” the drive-tempo opening selection on Pastor Bobby Cohen & Men of God’s Dream Come Alive, signals that the album is a traditional-leaning project. And it is, though the quartet smooths some [...]
Long-Awaited Aretha Franklin “Amazing Grace” Documentary Makes World Debut at 2018 DOC NYC
NEW YORK, NY, November 5, 2018 – Amazing Grace, a long-awaited documentary featuring Aretha Franklin’s signature performances at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, will make its world debut at the 2018 DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival. It was announced today that the film will be [...]
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Bob Marovich of the Journal of Gospel Music interviews gospel recording artist Lil Prince.
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Martha Munizzi – Best Days
Martha Munizzi Best Days Martha Munizzi Music (release date: July 29, 2021) www.marthamunizzi.com By Robert M. Marovich Martha Munizzi’s latest live album, Best Days, is a well-orchestrated worship service that focuses on the reasons to celebrate, not worry, in the midst of today’s uncertainty. The paradox of joy in the midst of a raging storm permeates the project—after all, the album was recorded in November 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. It’s also the ultimate test of faith, Munizzi teaches, in songs that are energetic and pop-inflected with beefy instrumental flourishes. She assumes pastoral authority, exhorting during songs, encouraging [...]
Pastor Bobby Cohen & Men of God – Dream Come Alive
Pastor Bobby Cohen & Men of God Dream Come Alive Cohen Records Available at digital music outlets By Bob Marovich “Born Again,” the drive-tempo opening selection on Pastor Bobby Cohen & Men of God’s Dream Come Alive, signals that the album is a traditional-leaning project. And it is, though the quartet smooths some [...]
Long-Awaited Aretha Franklin “Amazing Grace” Documentary Makes World Debut at 2018 DOC NYC
NEW YORK, NY, November 5, 2018 – Amazing Grace, a long-awaited documentary featuring Aretha Franklin’s signature performances at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, will make its world debut at the 2018 DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary film festival. It was announced today that the film will be [...]
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From Grammy.com: here are the 52nd Annual Grammy Awardees in the gospel categories:Best Gospel Performance:“Wait On The Lord”Donnie McClurkin Featuring Karen Clark SheardTrack from: We All Are One (Live In [...]
“I Want the World to See”Seon ThompsonFrom the Just Wait Recordings CD I’m Out (2009)www.seonthompson.comSeon Thompson is the pastor from Flint, Michigan who looks as if he walked right out [...]
Alisa CameronSeasonsIndependent Release 2008www.alisacameron.comGospel vocalist Alisa Cameron of Racine, Wisconsin, a metropolitan area just south of Milwaukee, has garnered sufficient praise over the years to have gone from a member [...]
From the superb journalist Lee Hildebrand, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle. A great story about that sadly dying breed, the independent record store, and specifically the independent gospel record [...]
“Keep Trying”Angelia RobinsonFrom the CD Lessons in Love (2010)www.angeliarobinson.comAngelia Robinson grooved on a variety of musical styles while growing up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. “Keep Trying,” her [...]
"He Will Not Change”John WilsonTopline Productionswww.toplinepd.comJohn Wilson of Mt. Vernon, NY has worked with artists from Rev. James Cleveland and the New York Community Choir to Elton John and Patti [...]
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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.
