Music CD - Mahalia Jackson: Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns

	Music CD: Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns Artist: Mahalia Jackson List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $14.08 Your Save: $ 5.90 ( 30% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks: 1. Didn't It Rain 2. My God Is Real (Yes, God Is Real) 3. Walk Over God's Heaven 4. If I Can Help Somebody 5. Come On Children, Let's Sing 6. What A Friend We Have In Jesus 7. I Found The Answer 8. It Is Well With My Soul 9. Great Gettin' Up In The Morning 10. You Must Be Born Again 11. Elijah Rock 12. Jesus Met The Woman At The Well 13. A Satisfied Mind 14. Keep Your Hand On The Plow 15. Roll, Jordan, Roll 16. Calvary 17. In My Home Over There 18. I Will Move On Up A Little Higher
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0074646559420 Format: Box set Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Sony Release Date: 1998-08-18 Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: What a Voice Comment: This is a great collection of songs and the arrangements are so great. Didn't it Rain is one of my favorites since I was a kid and no one can sing it like Mahalia! Love the piano on this album too! Customer Rating: Summary: Mahalia Jackson Comment: I do not regret the purchase of Gospels, Spirituals, and Hymns. Sometimes we need to hear frm those whose shoulders we stand on. We need to hear the word of the Lord from one who preaches through song, someone like Sister Mahalia Jackson. I highly recomend this set for your music library. Customer Rating: Summary: The One and Only Comment: Well, if you are into Gospel (or just into great singing, for that matter), you need look no further; simply put, I don't see how you could do without this collection. Provides a great selection from Jackson's repertoire, and rare gems. Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome Comment: The music is great and the singer is phenomenal. All in all a great purchase. Customer Rating: Summary: Listen to the piano bass line! Comment: Listen to the piano bass line in "Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho." I can listen to that alone and rejoice! Then, there is Mahalia Jackson's voice, a little rougher than Ella Fitzgerald but there is a child-like joy as she sings these gospel songs. For this evidence, listen to, "If I Can Help Somebody." The recording is superb as if I were listening to the album on vinyl. Superb stuff! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: If the bazillion packagings and repackagings of Mahalia Jackson's music confound you and you don't know where to start, this expertly compiled, carefully annotated double-disc box set is for you. Jackson wasn't just gospel music's first international superstar--she was among its earliest adherents and inventors. Working with the great composer and former blues singer Thomas A. Dorsey in the late 1930s, Jackson gave a distinctly blues-trained, jazzy sass and grace to Dorsey's material and the other hymns and spirituals she sang. More than any other performer, she helped to define gospel music itself as a transcendent, rootsy, melismatic, and heady spiritual sound. Culled from her sides for Columbia in the 1950s and 1960s, some of the arrangements in the set are not ideal and may sound quite a bit dated, but that voice shines and soars and dives straight to the center of your heart. Whether backed by a simple organ or piano or with full studio accompaniment, Jackson's booming, instantly recognizable contralto is indescribable, exciting, and forever a wonder to behold. And if you think that's an exaggeration, you don't own this record. --Mike McGonigal