Jazz Articles about The Blind Boys of Alabama

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SFJAZZ Fall Season Kickoff 2025

by Ronald Davis
October 5, 2025

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The Blind Boys of Alabama at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
September 14, 2025

Blind Boys of Alabama w/Cory Henry Miner Auditorium San Francisco, California September 7, 2025 It was the kind of Sunday afternoon that settles on a room like a benediction. Folks looked as if they'd come straight from church--pressed jackets, careful shoes, a woman down front wearing a black sweater stitched with the word “FAITH," the letters bright with sequins that caught every glint of stage light. The musicians would add the rest.

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The Blind Boys of Alabama: Spirit Of The Century and Higher Ground

by James Nadal
May 28, 2016

The experience of spiritual jubilation has taken The Blind Boys of Alabama far and wide from their southern roots. For over seventy years they have maintained their unwavering commitment to only sing in praise and service of the Lord, and they have succeeded on that. They take their role as guardians and bearers of the gospel tradition so serious, that it has been their solitary mission. Having recorded over sixty albums since their beginning as glee club singers at the ...