Cat No FA411

The Zion Harmonizers trace their origins to 1939, when Benjamin Maxon founded the quartet among teenage friends in the Zion City Community - one of these lost New Orleans neighborhoods. They made their first recordings in the 1950's. Over the years, the Zion Harmonizers have maintained a consistently respectable roster of singers, all church men. The current membership includes Sherman Washington, manager and lead voice ; Nolan Washington, assistant manager and lead voice ; Joseph Warrick, musical director and utility voice ; Howard Bowie, vocal director and utility voice ; Brazella Briscoe, tenor voice ; Louis Jones, bass voice ; Willie Williams, guitarist and utility voice and Danny Allen, drums. While blessed with a spiraling international reputation, The Zion Harmonizers remain a pillar of the New Orleans Gospel community. Many of their programs and song services are still conducted in small churches within a hundred mile radius of New Orleans.