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| Track Listing 1. Light of the World, The 2. You Don't Know What the Lord Told Me 3. No Ways Tired 4. Everlasting Arms 5. What the World Needs Now 6. All My Burdens 7. I Surrender All 8. Lean on Me 9. This Place I Call Home 10. This Little Light of Mine 11. I Must Tell Jesus
Album Notes Personnel: Fontella Bass (vocals, piano); Stew Cutler (guitar); Dave Tronzo (slide guitar); Marty Ehrlich (flute, alto flute, alto & tenor saxophones); David Sanborn (alto saxophone); Doug Wieselman (tenor saxophone); Hamiet Bluett (saxophone); Lester Bowie, Dave Douglas (trumpet); Arthur Baron (trombone); Donald Smith (piano, electric piano, organ); Mark Johnson (organ); Harvey Brooks (bass); Garry Bruer (drums); The Institutional Radio Choir. Recorded at RPM Studios, New York, New York in October 1993 and April 1994. Includes liner notes by James Hunter. This is part of the American Explorer series. NO WAYS TIRED was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album. NO WAYS TIRED celebrates the roots and fruits of African American music, and the circuitous route by which Fontella Bass expanded upon the bedrock of gospel music in the popular arena of blues, soul and jazz--then, by and by, came back to the spirit that originally nurtured her talent. Grandmother Nevada Carter was a singer, and her mother Martha Bass came up under Willie May Ford Smith, and later sang with the Clara Ward Singers. A teenaged Fontella sat in with numerous blues performers, went on the road with Little Milton, and in 1965 recorded the soul smash "Rescue Me" for Chess. Married to trumpeter Lester Bowie, she went on to record LES STANCES A SOPHIE with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, but dropped out of the business to raise their four children, returning to gospel performances in the early '80s with her mother and brother David Peaston. For all her vocal prowess, Bass performs with soulful, elegant restraint on the rocking, stop-time hollers of Shirley Caesar's "You Don't Know What The Lord Told Me" and the spare, haunting "This Place I Call Home," a tale of returning to the fold, featuring David Tronzo's keening, slide guitar amens. But on the title tune Bass matches the emotional intensity of David Sanborn's alto solo with fervent testimony of her own--as tinged in blues phrasing as in typical gospel ornaments. Yet a pair of pop inspirationals--"What The World Needs Now" and "Lean On Me"--prove the most revealing. Bass displays an elegant, jazzy aspect to her phrasing on the former, while the latter sums up the inspirational qualities which intersect in '60s-'70s southern soul and traditional hymns. Editorial Reviews JazzTimes (07/01/1995) Option (09/01/1995) | Find errors in the product description? Submit a catalog update request now. | ||||||||||||||
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