Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting With Mahalia Jackson

Description: Sunday Morning Prayer Meeting With Mahalia Jackson Product Overview Format: Audio CD, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, June 19, 2001 Maybe it was because she was born in New Orleans, the first city of
jazz, that Mahalia Jackson brought so much ornamentation to the traditional
gospel songbook, stretching her phrases with the grace of a horn and
fracturing single syllables into many-noted chromatic melodies. Or maybe it's
because she was born with so profound a vocal gift that she would have been
among the greatest singers in any style she chose. At any rate, her
accomplishments in American spiritual music remain unequaled. During the last
20 years of her life, when Jackson recorded for Columbia, her voice was the
defining sound of gospel. She cut hundreds of songs during that period and
became an inspirational figure in the Civil Rights movement: performing
alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C. and singing at his
funeral, championing black education, and running her own chain of
restaurants. Now Columbia follows the fine Jackson box set, Gospels,
Spirituals, & Hymns, with three CDs that mark her 90th birthday.In Concert
Easter Sunday, 1967 and Recorded Live in Europe During Her Latest Concert Tour
are reissues with some additional tracks. The new Sunday Morning Prayer
Meeting compiles studio and live cuts from 1955 to 1965. All three are good,
yet only Live in Europe is essential. It is Jackson at her peak in her most
common setting, singing standards with only longtime piano accompanist Mildred
Falls. Jackson runs her cool-water voice in torrents that spin anywhere she
chooses, improvising breathless whispers, soaring crescendos, and additional
choruses and verses, ignoring or stretching the rules of rhythm with her
phrasing--all as the spirit moves her, which it did deeply and often in this
clarion performance. Slightly more ornate orchestrations accompany Jackson for
some of the Easter concert, but her performance is subdued, perhaps due to the
heart trouble that sidelined her for the previous three years and eventually
killed her in 1972. Although the compilation is an excellent sampler of
Jackson in the studio and onstage, its unreleased tracks--including a live
"Elijah Rock," which also appears on the two other discs--add nothing to her
already well-preserved legacy. --Ted Drozdowski Details Language ‏ : ‎ English Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.33 inches; 3.84 ounces Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2001 Run time ‏ : ‎ 54 minutes Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 11, 2007 Label ‏ : ‎ Sony Legacy Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1 Best Sellers Rank: #302,940 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl) #306 in Traditional Gospel #738 in Contemporary Gospel Music #11,954 in Blues (CDs & Vinyl) Quality Products This will be shipped securely Returns must be within 30 days - item EXACTLY as it was sent. Must have tracking number. Email us with any issues/questions. Thanks for looking! Fast and Free Shipping Shipping is free for this item. We get your order shipped out and delivered to your doorstep as quickly as possible. Commitment We are committed to making sure that you leave this transaction satisfied. That means having access to real people that get your questions and concerns answered quickly. Give us a shot and we will make sure that you will look to us again!