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10:08 PM ROTFLMBBO No, he didn't play trombone. Featured in the excellent documentary, Say Amen, Somebody (1982), Dorsey, along with such luminaries as Sallie Martin and Willie Mae Ford Smith fused the secular blues with the liturgical sacred to give us the Chicago Gospel tradition, as handed down to Mahalia Jackson (who put many of Dorsey's compositions on the map), Shirley Caesar, James Cleveland (the undisputed "King of Gospel"), Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, Dionne Warwick and her little cousin Whitney; and would come full circle in the genius of Baptist ex-preacher, Sylvester James Hurd. I'm tellin' ya, those Baptists get everything. Well, almost everything. Hey, don't accuse me of spreading rumors. I only know about Cleveland because of my parent's casual boycott of his material in the late 80s. Too bad for them. One of my "keyboard heroes", yes, along with Rick Wakeman, Cleveland basically defined late 20th Century Gospel virtuosity. And I must say, if not for the fundo Christians, I never would have known that "Queen" is the word for [gasp!] a musician! Thanks much, Paul and Jan. Some of you know what I'm talking about. Anyway...
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