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Previously unreleased music from Mahalia Jackson is due on September 30

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buzzz worthy. . . Forty-five years after Mahalia Jackson's passing she remains the world's most famous gospel singer. The Grammy and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was on hand to  sing before and after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s landmark "I Have A Dream" Speech at the historic March on Washington, and has influenced  everyone from Aretha Franklin to Mavis Staples.  September 30 ,  2016, Shanachie Entertainment will release the definitive Mahalia collection featuring 22 previously unreleased masterpieces recorded between 1946 and 1957.   Moving On Up A Little Higher  is the first Mahalia Jackson recording featuring new material in  four decades. Produced by renowned Gospel scholar and award-winning author Anthony Heilbut ( The Gospel Sound: Good News   and Bad Times  and  The Fan Who Knew Too Much ), this definitive collection reveals the iconic singer's voice in its full  glory, capturing tones huge and small, stadium filling...