He’s played alongside Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, George Benson, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Ray Brown and Wynton Marsalis just to name a handful of the great musicians who have recognised the man’s enormous talent.
Australian jazz musician James Morrison has recently released his Gospel Collection featuring 12 classic gospel tracks and a couple of new songs he wrote especially for the album. As well as playing trumpet, the instrument that he’s most recognised for, he plays trombone, saxes, flugel horn, piano and organ. The Idea of North provide the gospel choir and vocalists Emma Pask and Neilsen Gough are outstanding. Down by the Riverside, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Amazing Grace, His Eye is on the Sparrow and The Old Rugged Cross all get the jazz treatment.
James and the others on the album have been sensitive enough with these old standards to remain true to the originals, while giving them enough new life to let you hear them all as fresh and alive.
I have the immense pleasure of spending some time with James Morrison this Sunday night at 7:15 and Monday night at 8:30 Perth time. If you want to hear from James and sample one of the tracks from his new album, listen in by tuning your radio to 98.5 Sonshine FM. If you’re not in the Perth area, click here and follow the links to listen on-line.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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You lucky, lucky, lucky man. You must *love* your job!!! BTW bit of Trivial Pursuit for you – did you know Dizzy was a Baha’i?
NO FAIR!!!!
(crawls under her desk to sulk)
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