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Come Sunday: Crosscurrents
by C. Michael Bailey
American roots music can be divided into four broad genres: blues, jazz, country and gospel. A Venn diagram of the relationship of these four would reveal an area of intersection of all these musical elements. It is in this area that the jazz-gospel group Come Sunday achieves its durable yet delicate goal of divining these spirits in equal measure. Come Sunday's name is derived from the Duke Ellington song of the same name, made famous in his ...
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Something Else!
It's a given that show tunes and Tin Pan Alley songs have provided plenty of fodder for jazz interpretations, especially in the decades before there were enough quality standards written specifically for jazz to fill up a fake book. There's long been another, almost forgotten, source for great jazz treatments, and that's the sturdy old spirituals still being heard in thousands of churches across the country every first day of the week. On this topic, I always think of Grant ...
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Chicago's Come Sunday Mixes Gospel & Jazz on Debut CD "Crosscurrents"
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Terri Hinte Publicity
The Chicago septet Come Sunday melds jazz form and gospel tradition on their striking debut CD Crosscurrents, due for release May 3. Taking their name and inspiration from Duke Ellington's groundbreaking 1958 collaboration with gospel queen Mahalia Jackson, Come Sunday reinterprets time-honored spirituals and gospel classicsplus one Stevie Wonder tune and, of course, Ellington's Come Sunday"in musically innovative, emotionally uplifting ways. The arrangements, by the group's guitarist Mike Allemana, brim with melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic surprise. They smartly balance gospel ...
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"Come Sunday: Inspiration for Living with Heart" by Paul C. Stomper
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All About Jazz
What do Aspiring Jazz Musicians, Athletes and Coaches, and Cancer Victors Share with Every Person? Come Sunday: Inspiration for Living with Heart By Paul C. Stomper M.D. With Karen A. Walker Infinity Publishing 2006/ISBN 0-7414-3415-6 $17.95 259 pages
Come Sunday: Inspiration for Living with Heart is a journey of stories and quotes of inspiration and faith that were shared by a cancer doctor and patients over 25 years; ...
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