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Javon Jackson – The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni
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 national treasure who lent her name to the album’s title. The album came about after Jackson, a faculty member at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford and director of its Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, invited Giovanni to speak to his students. In [...]
Steven Chesne – Sapient: A Cantata of Peace
Steven Chesne Sapient: A Cantata of Peace Brahmasong Records (2017) http://www.chezworks.com/sapient.html By Bob Marovich The first thing to understand about television, film, and concert music composer Steven Chesne’s Sapient: A Cantata of Peace is that it cannot be defined as gospel music, or spirituals, or hymns, or anthems, or religious [...]
Jabari Johnson: “A Raphael Saddiq Who Sings Gospel”
By Bob Marovich It’s not unusual to hear how a gospel song touched someone’s life. Every now and then, you even hear about how a gospel song saved someone’s life. But what about when a song saves the life of its own creator? That is the story behind “Have Your [...]
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Javon Jackson – The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni
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 national treasure who lent her name to the album’s title. The album came about after Jackson, a faculty member at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford and director of its Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, invited Giovanni to speak to his students. In [...]
Steven Chesne – Sapient: A Cantata of Peace
Steven Chesne Sapient: A Cantata of Peace Brahmasong Records (2017) http://www.chezworks.com/sapient.html By Bob Marovich The first thing to understand about television, film, and concert music composer Steven Chesne’s Sapient: A Cantata of Peace is that it cannot be defined as gospel music, or spirituals, or hymns, or anthems, or religious [...]
Jabari Johnson: “A Raphael Saddiq Who Sings Gospel”
By Bob Marovich It’s not unusual to hear how a gospel song touched someone’s life. Every now and then, you even hear about how a gospel song saved someone’s life. But what about when a song saves the life of its own creator? That is the story behind “Have Your [...]
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“Twisted”Michelle Lang & StillwaterFrom the forthcoming CD Obnoxious (release date: August 2009)www.michellelang-stillwater.comFormed in 2000 and expecting to do a “one time…just outside of town” type of gig, Michelle Lang and [...]
J MossJust JamesVerity Gospel Music Group 2009www.verityrecords.comJames “J” Moss is one of the most exciting gospel artists of the decade. Of course, he hails from the Moss/Clark dynasty, as prodigious [...]
“Inna the Ghettio”Papa SanFrom the Habakkuk Music/Beloved Records album Higher Heights (in stores July 28) www.habakkukmusic.comBorrowing from Dave Withers’ 1971 hit single “Ain’t No Sunshine,” former Jamaican dance hall hitmaker, [...]
Special thanks to Shane Steward for passing along this article from Greg Garrison of the Birmingham News, and for making available these photographs.Mildred Howard, a member of the Original Gospel [...]
“No Turning Back,” “Righteous Highway,” “Carolina,” and “Carry Me”Danny BrooksFrom Live at the Palais Royale' / Soulsville 3 (release scheduled for September 2009)www.dannybrooksmusic.comTBGB has reviewed several projects by Canada’s Danny [...]
As TBGB reported earlier, John "Boots" Carter, member of Troy Ramey and the Soul Searchers, died last Sunday, July 11. Read Steve Visser's lovely article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution below. [...]
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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.
