Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899, Villa Rica, Georgia - January 23, 1993, Chicago), is known as "The Father of Gospel Music". Earlier in his life he was a leading blues pianist known as Georgia Tom. As formulated by Dorsey, gospel music combines Christian praise with the rhythms of jazz and the blues. Dorsey was the music director at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago from 1932 until the late 1970s. Wikipedia
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Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993) The Father of the Chicago Gospel Movement Thomas Andrew Dorsey is an important figure in black gospel music. www.dovesong.com/Positive_music/archives/gospel/Dorsey.asp
He was soon whipped into shape to do the Lords will. Discouraged by his own efforts to publish and sell his songs through the old method of peddled song sheets and dissatisfied with the treatment given composers of race music by the music publishing indu www.southernmusic.net/thomasdorsey.htm
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His mother was a respected organist, and Dorsey began playing the instrument at a young age. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1603&...
