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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
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Reviews:
The Great Mahalia
I recently saw a play about Mahalia Jackson and decided I wanted a CD of her music. This really fits the bill! Her voice is so beautiful, rich, and full and so many of my favorites are included. Great buy! Buoyant Collection From The Queen of Gospel Music
"Gospel, Spirituals, and Hymns" is one of the best, if not the best, collection of songs by the great Mahalia Jackson. Ms. Jackson is still consider the preeminent female gospel singer of all time, and this package will do nothing but burnish her reputation.
Her voice soars, rattles, shakes, and coerces the listener to believe. Her artistry was in conveying such raw, heartfelt emotion that there was no question about her sincerity and belief in her music and its source. Songs like "Great Gettin Up Morning," "Elijah Rock," "I Will Move Up A Little Higher," "If We Never Needed The Lord Before (We Sure Do Need Him Now)," "God Put A Rainbow In The Sky," and many, many others confirm the need for all gospel music lovers to own this record. MAHALIA JACKSON, GOSPELS, SPIRITUALS AND HYMNS
Purchased with 2 other of Jackson's CD's we found this one to be the most disappointing. Too loud and raucus for our taste. Our one and only recording of Mahalia is "The Power and the Glory" with the Percy Faith orchestra, a wonderful rich and moving experience, and we were hoping for the same with our current 3 purchases. Definitely not the same quality we were expecting. We didnt mind the other 2 but really dont like this one at all, sorry.
Mahalia Reigns
Purchase of this set was for musical experience rather than the religious message. Therefore Disc 2 is the highlight and Disc 1 more for those after religious inspiration. What a Voice
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! |
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Description: Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns
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