JGM Pick of the Week – April 1, 2024
“I’m Redeemed” Beloved St. John Evangelistic Church Music and Fine Arts Ministry Independent (release date: October 6, 2023)
RIP: Morris Chapman, gospel and CCM singer-songwriter
By Bob Marovich The Journal of Gospel Music has learned that gospel and CCM singer-songwriter and worship leader Morris Chapman passed away on May 2, 2020, at age 82. Born February 26, 1938, in Camden, Arkansas, Chapman moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1957 and married in 1959. He didn't [...]
JGM Music Hour – Episode 125
Click on the image to stream the show. Playlist for Episode 125: I'm determined - Bemeche' God has kept me - Wardlaw Brothers Now I'm on my way - Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir If God - Casey J Forever - Jason Nelson [...]
Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir – I Am Reminded
Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir I Am Reminded Brooklyn Tabernacle Music (release date: April 6, 2018) www.brooklyntabernacle.org By Bob Marovich Recorded live at Brooklyn Tabernacle in New York, I Am Reminded is the 30th album by the multicultural and multiple Grammy Award-winning Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. It features the choir’s time-honored majestic harmonies [...]
Bishop Andrew Merritt & the Straight Gate Mass Choir – Saturate Us
Bishop Andrew Merritt & The Straight Gate Mass Choir Saturate Us Bajada Records (release date: December 22, 2015) www.saturateus.com By Bob Marovich The praise and worship choir, which one could argue was pioneered in the 1980s by Carol Cymbala and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, tempers the soul-stirring sounds of the [...]
Genesis of a Gospel Song: “I Can Go to God in Prayer” – Calvin Bridges
Calvin Bridges as told to JGM's Bob Marovich Looking back, I think God set me up to be in gospel music. In the neighborhood where I grew up, on the West Side of Chicago, there was the Holloway Community Choir. I lived around the corner from them. I would go [...]
Caleb Collins – Caleb Collins Christmas
Caleb Collins Caleb Collins Christmas Caleb Collins Music (2015) www.calebcollins.com By Bob Marovich Singer-songwriter Caleb Collins of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir hits a long ball home run with Caleb Collins Christmas. Evoking modern day crooners Michael Buble’ and Harry Connick Jr., Collins sails with verve through lushly orchestrated versions of [...]
Pastor Waverly B. Bumbrey Sr. Presents “Seasons” Live
Pastor Waverly B. Bumbrey Sr. Presents Refuge Temple Cathedral Voices “Seasons” Live www.refugetempledetroit.org By Bob Marovich One might surmise from its title (and the image of a red bow on the cover) that “Seasons” Live is a Christmas CD. Indeed, the strains of “O Come All Ye Faithful” seep through [...]
JGM Music Hour: Episode 92
Playlist (in order of appearance): Let me lean on you - Gospel Angels On the other side of through - Prez Blackmon Wanna be - Wincey I am free - Ladell Cole Something big - Jekalyn Carr Just because - Robert E. Person No not [...]
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