Cat No FA1314

Vol 4 of Frémeaux’s complete Mahalia Jackson recordings. Though her audience at this time was primarily a black one, she was well known enough to play Carnegie Hall and shortly after these Apollo label sessions would be signed up by Columbia, placed in a more commercial musical setting and go on to reach a wider, white market, becoming America’s –indeed, the world’s-- best known gospel singer. These tracks capture her at her peak