Music

Moving on up a little higher


Reviews (3)


Journal of Gospel Music

d. 6. Oct. 2016

By

By

Bob Marovich

d. 6. Oct. 2016

"Moving On Up a Little Higher may well be the finest collection of Mahalia Jackson selections ever released, and ranks among Anthony Heilbut's best produced music projects to date ... Listening to these performances of Mahalia Jackson is about as close as one can come to hearing gospel music in its raw, unfettered glory.".


DownBeat

2017 April

By

By

Frank-John Hadley

2017 April

"Jackson deploys her amazing range and delivery to attain one extraordinary emotional peak after another".


Living blues

2016 December

By

By

Lee Hildebrand

2016 December

"Moving on Up a Little Higher (...) presents the Queen of Gospel Music in all her unfettered powers in performances captured in church, a high school auditorium, on a CBS television broadcast, at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Music Inn and at home in Chicago with pioneering gospel tunesmith Thomas A. Dorsey ... absolutely essential ... ".