TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Mahalia Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.0019
Mahalia Jackson Album Rankings
1
Although it's missing some of her classic performances, the double-disc setGospels, Spirituals & Hymnsis nonetheless an excellent introduction to Mahalia Jackson, arguably the greatest gospel singer o
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2
With its excellent sound, solid compiling work, and lengthy liner notes, the second 2-CD box set of Mahalia Jackson's Columbia recordings is just as essential as the first,Gospels, Spirituals & Hymns.
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3
Live at Newportis a wonderful reissue of theNewport 1958album, containing all 15 songs that were on the original record.
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4
If you're looking for something a little less comprehensive and pricey than one of the Mahalia Jackson box sets, this is the best single-disc compilation of her Columbia recordings, spanning the years
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5
The companion to the first double-disc Gospels, Spirituals, & Hymns is an equally compelling, masterful collection of Mahalia Jackson recordings, comprised of 36 songs (including five live tracks) rec
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6
Mahalia Jackson rewrote the rules for singing gospel in the late '40s by bringing blues phrasing and other secular elements into sacred song, and with her powerful alto, she sang with an immediacy and
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7
These 16 tracks recorded forBess Berman'sApollo Records from 1947 to 1954 mark the debut recordings of Mahalia Jackson, and the first gospel records to reach a mass audience.
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17
This disc features 10 of the original Apollo tracks by the great Mahalia Jackson. In addition to the title track, the disc also includes "Nobody Knows," "Just As I Am," and "Amazing Grace.
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18
Unlike her Christmas with Mahalia Jackson album, Mahalia Sings Songs of Christmas! has a large number of traditional holiday tracks, such as "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "O Come All Ye Faithfu
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46
This, the second of her two legendary gospel Christmas albums for Columbia, is a worthy companion to her earlier Silent Night album. ~ David A.
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48
The Best of Mahalia Jackson is a 16-track collection featuring many of Jackson's very best recordings -- "God Put a Rainbow in the Sky," "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands," "Walk in Jerusalem,"
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57
Another cross-section of Jackson's '50s and '60s work.
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58
The Ultimate Collection might more properly be called The Early Mahalia Jackson, since it consists of some of the gospel singer's first recorded performances.
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