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12 Jun 11 - 01:45 PM (#3169380) Subject: Black Gospel singing with piano? From: GUEST,Tunesmith I'm looking for cds featuring black gospel singing with very audible piano accompaniment. Ideally, I would love just one voice and piano. I've been searching for such recordings and I'm surprised that there aren't lots out there when you consider that so many great blues/soul artists had a background in gospel. Lots of them played the piano, too. e.g. Ray Charles, Dinah Washington and Aretha Franklin. |
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12 Jun 11 - 01:58 PM (#3169387) Subject: RE: Black Gospel with piano? From: Stringsinger Mahalia Jackson with Mildred Falls, accompanist. |
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13 Jun 11 - 03:20 AM (#3169708) Subject: RE: Black Gospel with piano? From: GUEST,Tunesmith Stringsinger: Thanks for that. |
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13 Jun 11 - 06:12 AM (#3169763) Subject: RE: Black Gospel with piano? From: Fred McCormick Take a listen to Arizona Dranes, a wonderful sanctified black pianist, who recorded quite a lot of stuff for OKEH in the 1920s. Her entire output has been reissued on the Document label and I can tell you, it's pretty steaming. |
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13 Jun 11 - 08:04 AM (#3169806) Subject: RE: Black Gospel with piano? From: Jerry Rasmussen THere's a lot of black gospel with piano accompaniment, but other than Mahalia and Arizona (who is definitely an acquired taste,) no individual singers accompanied by just a pianho come to mind. Gospel music is much more of a group creation. Even Mahalia's stripped down recordings often had drums and a stand-up bass playing with the piano. Her recordings are still the best suggestion I can think of. |