Books/articles about spirituals?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

You could do a lot worse than play some Charles Kynard on the programme, Ghost, particularly side 1 of "Where it's at", which is all church material. Kynard was a regular church organist, as well as jazz musician, and his stuff has a lot of the right feel.

Professor Herman Stevens (on Savoy) and Rev Maceo Woods (On Vee-Jay) made a lot of Gospel organ records which influenced jazz organists.

MG

[AllenLowe]

yes, yes, yes, for Deena Epstein - essential - also, any Document collection of old religious recordings, particularly from the 1920s and 1930s - truth is, contemporary gospel/jazz/syntheisis is too damn slick for me -

and don't forget the first gospel pianist, Arizona Dranes -

[ghost of miles]

Howdy GOM,

I only just found this thread...

I don't know nuthin' about spirituals, but a lady I know who just retired is a member of a singing group in the Denver area called "The Spirituals Project."

Here's their website:

http://spiritualsproject.org/

Yes! I came across that website while I was working on the show & plan to link to it on the info page for the program.

Simon, thanks for the rec. MG, I've already taped the program, but I had so much material that I plan to do a followup next year & will take that Charles Kynard into account.

[alocispepraluger102]

yes, yes, yes, for Deena Epstein - essential - also, any Document collection of old religious recordings, particularly from the 1920s and 1930s - truth is, contemporary gospel/jazz/syntheisis is too damn slick for me -

and don't forget the first gospel pianist, Arizona Dranes -

amen, brother. slick, or sickening?

[alocispepraluger102]

with ayler and trane and duke alone, you could do a 3 months of shows.

[AllenLowe]

well, let's just say it sounds to me like pop-gospel - (referring to my previous post about the slick) -

Edited March 30, 2007 by AllenLowe

[ghost of miles]

Howdy GOM,

I only just found this thread...

I don't know nuthin' about spirituals, but a lady I know who just retired is a member of a singing group in the Denver area called "The Spirituals Project."

Here's their website:

http://spiritualsproject.org/

Perhaps they could be of help somehow...

Good luck!

Here's another good site (multimedia version/relative of site above? Probably the same project, as they're both coming out of Denver) that I found & forgot to mention... will be linking to this one as well.

Edited April 4, 2007 by ghost of miles