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“Grace and Mercy” – Jennifer Lynn
Christian singer-songwriter Jennifer Lynn’s “Grace and Mercy” sparkles with tenderness and authenticity.
JGM Pick of the Week: March 25, 2024
At first glance, Damon Little and Angie Stone make an odd singing couple, but they complement one another like they've sung together all their lives on the bouncy and eternally-optimistic “No Stressing.”
“Come Go With Me” – Betty Griffin Keller
“Come Go With Me” Betty Griffin Keller Enon Music Group (release date: March 15, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Betty Griffin Keller, a former Cleveland Singer, member of the Southern California Community Choir and GMWA Mass Choir, and a solo recording artist, is back with her version of Rudolph Stanfield’s [...]
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“Grace and Mercy” – Jennifer Lynn
Christian singer-songwriter Jennifer Lynn’s “Grace and Mercy” sparkles with tenderness and authenticity.
JGM Pick of the Week: March 25, 2024
At first glance, Damon Little and Angie Stone make an odd singing couple, but they complement one another like they've sung together all their lives on the bouncy and eternally-optimistic “No Stressing.”
“Come Go With Me” – Betty Griffin Keller
“Come Go With Me” Betty Griffin Keller Enon Music Group (release date: March 15, 2024) By Robert M. Marovich Betty Griffin Keller, a former Cleveland Singer, member of the Southern California Community Choir and GMWA Mass Choir, and a solo recording artist, is back with her version of Rudolph Stanfield’s [...]
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“Only One Way Home” Mississippi Mass Choir Malaco Music Group (release date: March 29, 2024)
By Robert M. Marovich JGM is saddened to learn of the passing of gospel singer, songwriter, and percussionist Sandra Elaine Crouch on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at age 81. Born [...]
Lead vocalist Shawn Cotterell delivers an earnest reading on the choir’s latest single, “God is Good,” a high-spirited mid-tempo gospel complete with false ending and polyrhythmic vamp.
Among today’s artists who work within the gospel jazz idiom are Elder Randall Ogans Sr. and his son Dorian Ogans. They jazz five old and new hymns on their EP, Jesus the Light of the World.
Stellar Award-winner Lucinda Moore will be recognized with her first BMI Award for her hit song, “Lord I Hear You” at this year’s BMI Trailblazers of Gospel Music Awards ceremony.
Warm, energetic, and with a longstanding passion for churchy gospel music, Bishop Neal Roberson injects each of these characteristics into his new single, “Keeps on Making a Way.”
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John Paul McGee A Gospejazzical Christmas Jazz Urbane (release date: November 16, 2023) Guest review by David McGee In A Gospejazzical Christmas, the first new recording we’ve heard from Dr. John Paul McGee, Ph.D., since his acclaimed 2022 release, Gospejazzical Vol. 1, the gifted pianist-songwriter-producer-vocal arranger (currently assistant chair of piano at the Berklee College [...]
For its sixth album and first in three years, gospel group Anthony Brown and Group TherAPy offers a battery of scripture-based affirmations on its album of the same name.
Jekalyn Carr Jekalyn New Day Entertainment (release date: October 20, 2023) By Robert M. Marovich Jekalyn Carr, gospel music’s queen of encouragement, returns with a self-titled album that captures her unconquerable energy even as the lyrics focus less on the power of positive thinking and action, and more on the power of praise, worship, [...]
Gaither Tribute is a big bouquet of roses for Bill and Gloria Gaither.
Live From New Orleans delivers marvelous singing, well-written songs, professional musicians, and all of it expertly curated. It’s a worship experience in a jewel case.
LATEST PICK OF THE WEEK – SINGLES
At first glance, Damon Little and Angie Stone make an odd singing couple, but they complement one another like they've sung together all their lives on the bouncy and eternally-optimistic “No Stressing.”
Warm, energetic, and with a longstanding passion for churchy gospel music, Bishop Neal Roberson injects each of these characteristics into his new single, “Keeps on Making a Way.”
“Live Your Best Life” Brent Jones JDI Records (release date: February 12, 2024)
Veteran singer CeCe Winans has the training, the talent, the experience, and the chops to put any song over. Her new single, “That’s My King,” is no exception.
“Have Mercy O Grace” Armstead Ford ft. God’s Harvesters Independent (release date: October 27, 2023)
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.
By Robert M. Marovich Take in a concert by The SteelDrivers and, in between songs like “Blue Side of the Mountain,” "Wearin' a Hole," and “Long Way Down,” you might hear a song or two from the canon of southern gospel music. But until yesterday, one could not find an entire album of gospel songs [...]
Produced by Brown, Gaither Tribute features Gaither compositions reinterpreted by stars like Reba McEntyre, Alabama, Hillary Scott, Jamey Johnson, CeCe Winans, and Ronnie Milsap. The album is slated for release by the Gaither Music Group (distributed by Capitol Christian Music Group and Universal Music) on Friday, August 25.
By Robert M. Marovich What if your music ministry provided songs for not one church, nor two, nor even three, but hundreds? That’s what King’s Collective does. King’s Collective is the artistic arm of King’s Cathedral & Chapels. From a First Assembly of God church of 100 members in Maui, Hawaii, to planting churches [...]
By Robert M. Marovich JGM is saddened to learn of the passing of gospel singer, songwriter, and percussionist Sandra Elaine Crouch on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at age 81. Born July 1, 1942, to Benjamin and Catherine Crouch, Sandra was the twin sister of Andrae' Crouch. As part of the COGICs--with Billy Preston ("the fifth [...]
Darrell Luster of Malaco Music Group informed the Journal of Gospel Music that Henry Green, a longtime member of the Williams Brothers gospel quartet, passed away on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at the age of 80.