Though they currently have no label affiliation, the Soul Stirrers generally record a new album every 18 months or so. At that point I decided to rejoin the Soul Stirrers, and from then on great things started happening for us. “He said I would be doing great things with inspired music. Rogers was at a group meditation service in Las Vegas, where the leader asked everyone what they saw in their meditation. I just didn’t like the hustle and bustle of the pop field.”Īgain, the divine intervened. “I just wanted to try something new, something different at the time,” he says, and then adds that money was also a consideration. Rogers agrees, though he left the group in 1971 to record pop for Atlantic and Ronn records. I believe everything we need is in gospel.” “We don’t want people to think there are limitations in God. Jacox said they have received many offers to sing pop but have always refused. In their 56 years of existence they have not made a pop recording, yet the Soul Stirrers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. “Everyone would run out to hear Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers.” “When the Soul Stirrers would come to town, it was like Michael Jackson coming to Chicago today,” says Rogers, now a Chicagoan, of his childhood in Norfolk, Virginia. By the time they set up headquarters in Chicago in 1938, they had become known for eschewing gospel’s familiar four-part harmonies in favor of a strong lead singer backed by a quartet crooning in sweet unison. The Soul Stirrers–like a number of other gospel groups, including the Pilgrim Travelers, the Dixie Hummingbirds, and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama–gained a national reputation in the 30s, 40s, and 50s touring the country’s clubs, auditoriums, and churches. We practice unity, we practice love, and we practice respect with one another.” “We are all spiritually inclined,” Rogers says. Odom, 30, is down-to-earth, spiritual, and, according to Rogers, savvy about the group’s commercial and technical side. Banks, 36, is also quiet, but as his alternate profession would suggest, can take over in theological discussions. Rogers, who’s 50, is more soft-spoken, contemplative. The heavyset Jacox, who’s 51, is the talker–he seems to burst with information, observations, and humor. Farley died in October 1988 and has yet to be replaced, but the group still often bills itself as J.J. Farley and the Original Soul Stirrers to distinguish themselves from two other groups calling themselves the Soul Stirrers (although neither contained any original members). They toured and recorded primarily under the name J.J. The right people were Jackie Banks, the Soul Stirrers’ one genuine minister Ben Odom, now the group’s musical director and Willie Rogers, who returned to the group in 1980 after a nine-year absence. It will fill that bag up with prosperity.’ Everything worked out gracefully after that.
She said, ‘I been here waiting for you ’cause the Lord told me to tell you to keep on going. “She didn’t know me, and I didn’t know her.
“When I got off at 63rd, this lady was standing there,” Jacox says. The next morning, the first day of 1977, he left his south-side house, briefcase in hand, and took a bus northward. Jacox, whom Farley had named manager, recalls spending a solitary New Year’s Eve in prayer, searching for a course of action. The quintet, which spawned such pop stars as Sam Cooke and Johnnie Taylor, had just split up, leaving only Martin Jacox and founding member J.J.
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "The music overall is not that memorable or unique but it does have its unpredictable moments and finds Waldron really stretching himself." JazzTimes, in its retrospective analysis of ECM's first 50 years, commented on the label's first release that: "It's doubtful that anyone who heard Free at Last in its day took particular notice of its fledgling label, but an unheeded message is still a message: We're on a different wavelength." Track listing All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated
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