She's the right choice; her rolling vamps and powerful left hand come straight from the gospel tradition, and she pushes them toward modern jazz.

The group was part of the wave of new music that integrated American blues and gospel traditions with modern psychedelic and rock elements.

This was an extremely significant observation, and one with which all subsequent scholarship on early Christian gospel traditions would have to reckon.

In Sapelo, meanwhile, the descendants of slaves struggle to keep alive their centuries-old gospel tradition.

People acknowledged the Sisters for sticking to gospel tradition, instead blending their music with contemporary pop or R&B elements.

R&B music has also had a presence as an outgrowth of the strong blues and gospel traditions.

Yet individual Catholic resistance to Nazism and fascism carried on the gospel tradition of peacemaking.

Shirley Murdock, who like the Whispers works in the gospel tradition, opened the show.

The formation of the gospel tradition (1933; 2nd edn 1935)

Although she has a voice of size and substance, she does not come out of a belting gospel tradition.