If you don’t know Mahalia Jackson, you don’t know gospel music. If you’ve come in contact Jackson along the way, perhaps as she told you about that great gettin’ up morning, you’ll be thrilled to listen to the 22 tracks on this superb new Mahalia Jackson album, Moving On Up A Little Higher.
That’s right. A NEW Mahalia Jackson album. As her glorious contralto was silenced in 1972, at the age of 59, and with the abundance of Jackson collections that have been released over the years, who knew that an entire album worth of her performances, from her artistic peak, was waiting to be heard?
Later generation singers like Whitney Houston are routinely called “The Voice.” As good as Houston was, only Mahalia Jackson could claim that title.
If you could combine the fervor of Tamela Mann with the earnest delivery of Shirley Caesar and the power and polish of CeCe Winans into one singer, you’d have someone who may have been able to be Mahalia Jackson’s opening act.
Martin Luther King, Jr. may have said it best: he said a voice like Mahalia’s comes along only once in a millennium. She was that good, and her God-given gifts are on full display on this new CD.
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SUPERB, PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD MAHALIA JACKSON RECORDINGS JUST RELEASED was originally published on praisecleveland.com
