Joe Williams - Feel the Spirit (1995)

Joe Williams - Feel the Spirit, Disc EX, Case EX, Format: Music CD, Telarc Jazz Records. Jazz music CD release from Joe Williams with the album Feel the Spirit. Released on the label Telarc Jazz Records. Vocal Jazz music CD. This hard to find pre-owned music CD is fully guaranteed.

Joe Williams had been wanting to record an album of spirituals since 1957 and this is it. The veteran singer gives a blues feeling and swing to the traditional pieces which range from the rollicking title cut to "Go Down Moses," "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" and "The Lord's Prayer." He is assisted by Marlena Shaw (a particularly effective partner on three of the numbers) and a five-piece chorus on four other songs. The backing usually features Patrice Rushen getting organ sounds out of her synthesizer. Despite the one-message content, the music has more variety than one might expect and Joe Williams acquits himself very well on this sincere and heartfelt effort.