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Where soul is really at today is pop music. It emanates from the rumble of gospel chords and the plaintive cry of the blues. It is compounded of raw emotion, pulsing rhythm and spare, earthy lyrics?all suffused with the sensual, somewhat melancholy vibrations of the Negro idiom. Always the Negro idiom. LeRoi Jones, the militant Negro playwright, says: "Soul music is music coming out of the black spirit." For decades, it only reverberated around the edges of white pop music, injecting its native accent here and there; now it has penetrated to the core, and its tone and beat...
...FESTIVAL. "The Tenth Annual Monterey Jazz Festival." Selections from the "blues afternoon" of the 1967 festival, featuring such gospel and blues performers as T-Bone Walker, B. B. King, Richie Havens and the Clara Ward Singers...
LADY SOUL (Atlantic). When ex-Gospel Singer Aretha Franklin sings the blues, they are likely to pour forth wild, bright and triumphant. Aretha's big voice soars and loops and knifes through a swinging rock combo as she sings her own hit, Since You've Been Gone, and her sister
JACKIE McLEAN: NEW AND OLD GOSPEL (Blue Note). That hardy musical ghost, gospel, is summoned once again for this session. Its vibrations materialize most happily in a church-spirited composition by Ornette Coleman, who simply plays trumpet on this album. In Altoist McLean's four-part piece Lifeline, though, these vibrations become only the merest echo, as the group slides into the "new gospel" of freedom. Here McLean's quintet (Lamont Johnson on piano; Scott Holt, bass; Billy Higgins, drums) wheels uninhibitedly through the cycle of human experiences, expressing exultation with rollicking riffs, wonder with gentle breathings, anxiety...
...course of nearly two centuries, the Boston Society has reduced its scope as its beneficiaries have dwindled. It still actively propagates the gospel--but recently it has been running into financial difficulties. Even with half the balance of Dr. Williams' annuity, the Society's income (from contributions and from the interest on $100,000 in assets) amounts to barely enough to pay half the salary of a Protestant field representative and to pay for repairs and insurance of the church at Mashpee