Jazz Articles about LD Frazier

LD Frazier with Scott Stroman and The Eclectic Voices: I Was There When The Spirit Came

by Samuel Chell
March 4, 2008

LD Frazier I Was There When The Spirit Came 33 Jazz 2006

Even before Ray Charles blended gospel music and American pop, pianist-composer Horace Silver had composed and recorded “The Preacher," followed in short order by the jubilant, infectious sounds of gospel music on jazz recordings by fellow bandleaders drummer Art Blakey ("Moanin'"), saxophonist Cannonball Adderley ("'Dis Here"), and bassist Charles Mingus ("Better Git It In Your Soul"). The undiluted source music, moreover, was ...