National

“To come and hear Ms. Jones play after all this time, she’s still a fireball for the Lord,” Ingrid Brundidge, a lifelong member of First Baptist Church of Graymont, said today about Ella Jones. Jones, 92, is the church organist. She played her 80th Easter service today. “80 years, 80 years …Oh boy. It’s just […]

- Daily Praise

Gospel music has come a long way since the early 1930s, when Thomas Dorsey fused a Christian message with blues chords and rhythms. Over the years, innovators such as Mahalia Jackson, Shirley Caesar, Andrae Crouch and others have played major parts in pushing the music forward. But no list of gospel greats would be complete […]