Growing up in New Orleans, Donna Shears thought all Catholic churches had gospel music. It was only when she moved to Connecticut, she says, that she learned most don’t. But that is changing, and ...

On Sunday mornings when I was growing up in Mississippi, my father, Warren Eubanks, a slender man with skin the color of warm caramel, would take a black and gray Sears Silvertone record player and ...

Thomas A. Dorsey is regarded as the father of gospel music. From his piano, he wrote songs such as “Precious Lord Take My Hand,” a popular hymn in the black baptist church. But a recent article in the ...

Kirk Whalum is a multi-Grammy Award-nominated saxophonist and composer whose work has spanned multiple genres, expressions, and platforms. He has to his credit the "most listened to" sax solo in ...