Featured Content Gospel Music News — 23 April 2015
Over the years, Marsalis has been a mentor and champion for Sneed’s varied music endeavors. He has worked with Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since his conducting debut at Jazz at Lincoln Center in April 2008. Sneed and Marsalis also star in the new PBS documentary, Everyone Has a Place by Dennis Scholl of the Knight Foundation and Marlon Johnson, a six-time Emmy award-winning producer and director. The film captures their musical journey of last year’s historic performance of the Abyssinian Mass, composed by Marsalis and conducted by Sneed. The documentary was filmed at Charlotte’s Friendship Missionary Baptist Church during the 16-city national tour. Everyone Has a Place features the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Sneed’s 70-piece Chorale LeChateau.
Tonight, April 23, Sneed will perform in a multi-media concert of music and spoken word titled: “Migration Rhapsody: An Aleatoric Exploration of the Journey North through Music, Poetry, and Personal Narrative at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in conjunction with the Jacob Lawrence “MIGRATION SERIES.” The concert is directed and produced by Terrance McKnight and written by McKnight and Karen Chilton. The concert also features Chilton (narrator), James Davis, Jr. (piano), Nick Finzer (trombone), Ernesto Gomez (harmonica); Ricky Gordon (percussion); Alicia Hall Moran (vocals), Randall Haywood (trumpet), Bill T. Jones (narrator); Joseph Joubert (piano), Kevin Maynor (vocals), Jason Moran (piano), Nicole Phifer (vocals), Bill Sims, Jr. (guitars), Chaney Sims (vocals), Bob Stewart (tuba); Curtis Stewart (violin); Tuffus Zimbabwe (piano) and The Levites featuring Quinn Brown, Chenee Campbell, Lynette Rhett McNeil, Tiffany Stevenson and Matia Washington.
In between Sneed’s two professorships at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Nyack’s Christian College, and the promotions of his new double disc project, Broken To Minister: The Deluxe Edition, Sneed completed a very successful 15-city Broken to Minister Promotional tour and a series of special events including appearances surrounding the 30th Anniversary of the Stellar Gospel Music Awards in Las Vegas; Spiritual Sketches In Recital with Lawrence Brownlee in Youngstown, OH and more!
Mali Music Leaves Gospel to Record Secular Music [INTERVIEW]
I can’t really say I’m surprised. The writing has been on the wall for Mali Music
to jump ship to secular music for years. In the exclusive Radio One
interview, Mali is upbeat about his decision to go to secular music.
Apparently he’s oblivious to all the people he’s hurt by this decision
as well.Maybe we should have taken his signing with Akon’s Konvict music a little more seriously a couple years ago, or maybe the signing to RCA Records secular division earlier this year was our greatest clue. Non-the-less it’s official. Before reaching the height of his potential in Gospel, Mali has changed course.
The multi-instrument musician and singer is looking forward to the new opportunities mainstream will afford him; Opportunities that were illusive in recording Gospel music.
“There’s this unspoken ceiling on top of it. Like we only know that there’s so far that we can go,” Says Mali.
Many artists will agree and dis-agree with that statement, but Mali seems at peace with his decision. Lets hope his light will continue to shine in the secular world, as it has in Gospel.
Watch the interview below.
Featured Content Gospel Music News — 23 April 2015
Over the years, Marsalis has been a mentor and champion for Sneed’s varied music endeavors. He has worked with Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since his conducting debut at Jazz at Lincoln Center in April 2008. Sneed and Marsalis also star in the new PBS documentary, Everyone Has a Place by Dennis Scholl of the Knight Foundation and Marlon Johnson, a six-time Emmy award-winning producer and director. The film captures their musical journey of last year’s historic performance of the Abyssinian Mass, composed by Marsalis and conducted by Sneed. The documentary was filmed at Charlotte’s Friendship Missionary Baptist Church during the 16-city national tour. Everyone Has a Place features the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Sneed’s 70-piece Chorale LeChateau.
Tonight, April 23, Sneed will perform in a multi-media concert of music and spoken word titled: “Migration Rhapsody: An Aleatoric Exploration of the Journey North through Music, Poetry, and Personal Narrative at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in conjunction with the Jacob Lawrence “MIGRATION SERIES.” The concert is directed and produced by Terrance McKnight and written by McKnight and Karen Chilton. The concert also features Chilton (narrator), James Davis, Jr. (piano), Nick Finzer (trombone), Ernesto Gomez (harmonica); Ricky Gordon (percussion); Alicia Hall Moran (vocals), Randall Haywood (trumpet), Bill T. Jones (narrator); Joseph Joubert (piano), Kevin Maynor (vocals), Jason Moran (piano), Nicole Phifer (vocals), Bill Sims, Jr. (guitars), Chaney Sims (vocals), Bob Stewart (tuba); Curtis Stewart (violin); Tuffus Zimbabwe (piano) and The Levites featuring Quinn Brown, Chenee Campbell, Lynette Rhett McNeil, Tiffany Stevenson and Matia Washington.
In between Sneed’s two professorships at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Nyack’s Christian College, and the promotions of his new double disc project, Broken To Minister: The Deluxe Edition, Sneed completed a very successful 15-city Broken to Minister Promotional tour and a series of special events including appearances surrounding the 30th Anniversary of the Stellar Gospel Music Awards in Las Vegas; Spiritual Sketches In Recital with Lawrence Brownlee in Youngstown, OH and more!
Mali Music Leaves Gospel to Record Secular Music [INTERVIEW]
I can’t really say I’m surprised. The writing has been on the wall for Mali Music
to jump ship to secular music for years. In the exclusive Radio One
interview, Mali is upbeat about his decision to go to secular music.
Apparently he’s oblivious to all the people he’s hurt by this decision
as well.Maybe we should have taken his signing with Akon’s Konvict music a little more seriously a couple years ago, or maybe the signing to RCA Records secular division earlier this year was our greatest clue. Non-the-less it’s official. Before reaching the height of his potential in Gospel, Mali has changed course.
The multi-instrument musician and singer is looking forward to the new opportunities mainstream will afford him; Opportunities that were illusive in recording Gospel music.
“There’s this unspoken ceiling on top of it. Like we only know that there’s so far that we can go,” Says Mali.
Many artists will agree and dis-agree with that statement, but Mali seems at peace with his decision. Lets hope his light will continue to shine in the secular world, as it has in Gospel.
Watch the interview below.
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