Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home.
Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.