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Ralph Carmichael Big Band: Ralph Carmichael and Friends Live / Big Band Christmas
by Jack Bowers
Ralph Carmichael, one of America’s most prominent born–again bandleaders, has abundant faith in big bands and in their capacity to help deliver a Christian–centered message of love, peace and redemption. Friends Live was recorded at Southern California College in Costa Mesa, 50 years after Carmichael’s graduation, class of ’47. As the song titles — “The Savior Is Waiting,” “His Eye Is on the Sparrow,” “Just a Closer Walk with Thee,” “Be Still My Soul” and so on — make clear, ...
read moreBrentwood Jazz Quartet: The Best Of
by Jack Bowers
Talk about self–effacement. The members of the Brentwood Jazz Quartet aren’t even listed by name on this anthology of the quartet’s most appealing work. The music, too, has a faceless quality about it, albeit with a twist — everything the quartet plays is gospel–oriented, as such titles as “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” and “All Creatures of Our God and King” make abundantly clear. If any Christian–centered radio stations employ a “lite ...
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