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After I recorded a Christmas CD
with a country flavor (Katrina’s Christmas Wish), I know: you
thought I’d get it out of my system and stop all this music nonsense. But
hearing one of my songs on the radio was just too much fun.
So I teamed up with jazz pianist Mark
Davidson. He not only plays, he did the arrangements, and got some of his
friends to join in too. You’ve gotta hear Amazing Grace with Kenny
G’s percussionist
Ron Powell laying down African drum rhythms. On other tracks you’ll
hear the trombone of Art
Dragon (leader of Disneyland’s Dixieland band) and the drumming of
Stevie D (just off his tour with
David Crosby). And if you've never heard the
Mark Davidson
Trio, check out "Sweet Dream" by the trio and LA Jazz Choir.
I called it
Professor Tangen’s Great
Gospel Tour because it is a short review of American Gospel music.
There are “field-hollers” and spirituals, brass bands, Dixieland, Blues,
and folk music from across the country. Each song tells a bit of the story
of how Gospel music acquired its great diversity and huge popularity.
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