Mahalia Jackson is having a moment, half a century after her death in 1972.
contains the song “Mahalia,” written about the legendary gospel singer. One of the year’s best jazz albums, James Brandon Lewis’sreworks some of Jackson’s best songs into extended instrumental improvisations.one of the best music films in recent memory. The movie had many great moments, but the picture’s high point was the duet between Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples.
But Jackson’s influence has soaked into many more musicians than just Staples. Duke Ellington featured Jackson’s voice on the milestone 1958 album,and later wrote a tune called “Portrait of Mahalia Jackson.” Aretha Franklin recorded several of the songs Jackson made famous and sang at her role model’s funeral. Nearly every vocalist in the gospel or soul-gospel fields owes a debt to Jackson.
Even in those versions where it’s just her and a pianist, a rocking rhythm takes over, as if that syncopation were the secret to dislodging boulders from the path. When the stones roll away, that same pulse becomes a happy dance down the aisle of the church—or maybe down the golden carpet of heaven—as she sings, “I’m gonna wear a diamond garment in that New Jerusalem.”
The muscular bottom end of the arrangements helps explain why Lewis built the Red Lily Quintet around the cello and double bass. The two string instruments vibrate with one another in mutually reinforcing ways. Jackson belonged to the Baptist Church all her life, but she admitted that she put her musical faith in the sanctified church down the street from her childhood home in New Orleans. In that holy-roller congregation, as the wild, push-and-pull music built to a climax, worshippers were apt to dance in the aisles, speak in tongues and fall out in ways that the middle-class Baptists didn’t approve of.
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