sounds of Chicago
Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church Choir featuring Glenn Burleigh (guest director), Founder/Pastor Emeritus Rev. Clay Evans, then Current Pastor Rev. Reginald Sharpe, Minister of Music Lou Della Evans Reid, and Assistant Minister of Music Rev. Reginald McCracken, “Just for Who You Are” (G. Burleigh), live, Chicago, c. 1990s
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Soul Stirrers (feat. Paul Foster, Jimmy Outler), “I’m A Pilgrim” (PF), “He’s Been A Shelter For Me” (PF), “I’m A Soldier” (JO), “He’ll Understand and Say ‘Well Done,'” “Listen To The Angels” (JO), live [TV Gospel Hour], Memphis, 1963
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There was a (happy) time, after this single’s release in 1975, when you couldn’t go to a Chicago blues bar—like, say, Buddy Guy’s Checkerboard Lounge on 43rd Street—without hearing this on the jukebox.
Syl Johnson (1936-2022), “Take Me to the River” (Al Green, Mabon [“Teenie”] Hodges), 1975
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Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters, “Messin’ with the Kid” (M. London), 1965
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Violinaires (feat. Robert Blair), “Lift Him Up,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), Chicago, 1973
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Fellowship Baptist Church Choir, “When He Speaks,” live, Chicago, c. 1994
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The Birth of Gospel, 2022
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what’s new: sounds of Chicago (in Amsterdam)
Mike Reed’s The Separatist Party (Mike Reed drums/percussion; Rob Frye tenor saxophone/flute/percussion; Ben LaMar Gay cornet/flugelhorn/percussion; Cooper Crain guitar/synthesizer; Dan Quinlivan synthesizer; Marvin Tate vocals), live, Amsterdam, 6/18/26 (performance begins at 18:00)
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Fellowship Baptist Church Choir (feat. Loretta Oliver, 1933-), “He Took My Sins Away,” 1999 and 2023
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Jeff Parker ETA IVtet (Jeff Parker, electric guitar with electronics; Jay Bellerose, drums and percussion; Anna Butterss, bass; Josh Johnson, alto saxophone with electronics), live, Los Angeles, 2025 (published yesterday)
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