Mahalia Jackson - Legend: The Best of Mahalia Jackson

Artist:

Jackson, Mahalia

UPC:

5014797296091

See Also:

Cooke, Sam Brown, James Duke Ellington & His Orchestra/Duke Ellington/Mahalia Jackson - Black, Brown and Beige

Description:

Liner Note Author: Alan Robinson .
Recording information: 1937-1954.
Mahalia Jackson is rightly remembered as the definitive African-American gospel singer. Legend, Music Club`s double-CD tribute compilation, presents 50 titles from her pre-Columbia period. Forty-eight of these originally appeared on the Apollo label, to which she was signed from 1946 to 1954. "Oh, My Lord" and "God`s Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares," two 1937 Decca sides from the dawn of her recording career, close out the second disc of this excellent if chronologically jumbled "best-of" album. How exciting to hear what Mahalia Jackson was like in her twenties! Young and feisty, she sounds a bit like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who began her own recording career a few months later in 1938. Uneasy with Mahalia Jackson`s boisterously black persona, the people in charge at Decca decided that she had insufficient commercial potential, and she wasn`t able to record again until nine years later. This overview of her Apollo recordings will enable the listener to bask, baste and marinate in the majesty of Mahalia Jackson`s early maturity. Those who really love this woman`s voice and spirit (is there a difference?) will also want to track down some of her later material, including a live performance at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and most importantly her exquisite collaboration with Duke Ellington on the Black, Brown and Beige album, also recorded in 1958. Mahalia Jackson`s music is rooted in the legacies of Blind Willie Johnson, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Her powerful influence is clearly detectable across a broad spectrum of later musicians, including Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin and Albert Ayler. ~ arwulf arwulf

Track Listing:

DISC 1:

1. Go Tell It on the Mountain
2. Amazing Grace
3. How I Got Over
4. Didn`t It Rain?
5. It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
6. His Eye Is on the Sparrow
7. Move on Up a Little Higher, Pt. 1
8. Move on Up a Little Higher, Pt. 2
9. Dig a Little Deeper
10. Nobody Knows the Trouble I`ve Seen
11. Hand of God
12. I`m on My Way to Canaan
13. In the Upper Rooms, Pts. 1-2
14. Consider Me
15. It Pays to Serve Jesus
16. I`m Glad Salvation Is Free
17. City Called Heaven
18. No Matter How You Pray
19. What Then?
20. I Walked into the Garden
21. Just as I Am
22. Do You Know Him?
23. It`s Real
24. Jesus Is with Me
25. Lord`s Prayer, The

DISC 2:

1. What Could I Do?
2. Just Over the Hill (Part 1)
3. Just Over the Hill (Part 2)
4. I Can Put My Trust in Jesus
5. Prayer Changes Things
6. Last Mile of the Way, The
7. There`s Not a Friend Like Jesus
8. I Believe
9. Bless This House
10. I`m Getting Nearer My Home
11. Just as I Am
12. Even Me
13. Walking in Jerusalem (Up in Jerusalem)
14. My Story
15. Come to Jesus
16. Tired
17. I Have a Friend
18. Get Away Jordan
19. (I`m Going To) Wait Until My Change Comes
20. Since the Fire Started Burning in My Soul
21. I Gave Up Everything to Follow Him
22. God Spoke to Me
23. He`s My Light
24. God`s Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares
25. Oh, My Lord

Album Information

Release Date:

09/04/2006

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Gospel

Subgenre:

Classic Gospel

Label:

Music Club Records

Catalog Number:

MCCD 609

Original Release Year:

2006

# of Discs:

2

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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