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Don Byron's New Gospel Quintet
Love, Peace, and Soul (Savoy Jazz)
Released February 2012
Josh Hurst

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Style: Soul-stirring jazz with gospel roots; compare to Coltrane, Dolphy, Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Top tracks: "Himm," "I've Got to Live the Life I Sing About," "Take My Hand, Precious Lord"

The phrase "joyful noise" was surely coined with this album in mind. Byron is a reed man and a bit of a jazz chameleon, his albums typically offering thematic tributes to the music he loves—standards, funk, even klezmer. He says gospel is the music that moves him the deepest, and one listen to this album confirms it. Byron's New Gospel Quintet, including soulful singer D. K. Dyson, has fervor and conviction to spare as they give spirited readings of Thomas A. Dorsey and Sister Rosetta Tharpe classics. They stretch out into pure, spontaneous jazz, but never lose sight of the material's gospel foundations.

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Anonymous

February 25, 2012 12:49pm

"The phrase "joyful noise" was surely coined with this album in mind." The idea that David was listening to gospel/jazz/funk from thousands of years in the future while writing Psalm 100 made me laugh. Thanks for that.