# Photos: Sharon Jones’ voice will live forever … Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2017/11/06/photos-sharon-jones-voice/
- Published: 2017-11-06T22:50:48+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**The soul singer, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer on Nov. 18, 2016, left behind
an extraordinary discography that includes the Grammy-nominated 2014 disc _Give 
The People What They Want_ (Daptone). Before she passed, Jones and her longtime 
backing band, the Dap-Kings, recorded a studio album, _Soul Of A Woman_.**

The album, which will be released by Daptone on Nov. 17, provides evidence that 
Jones remained a vocal powerhouse, even in her final weeks.

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“The last couple of years, Sharon was battling,” said Dap-Kings bassist Bosco Mann,
who produced the album. “When she was strongest, that’s when we’d go into the studio—
Sharon couldn’t phone it in, so we would only work when she was really feeling it.”

The initial idea for the album was to focus on string-driven ballads, possibly leading
to a tour incorporating symphonies or string sections. But as the band realized 
that Jones might not have a lot of time left, they decided to record some uptempo
and bluesy songs, the kind of material that she had excelled with onstage.

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The album’s 11-song program balances these two elements, presenting a full picture
of her artistic range: “Side 1 is the more raw, live side,” Mann said, “while Side
2 is more moody and orchestrated—more of a departure from her carnivorous live persona.”

Mann added, “Every time she took the stage, it always felt like Sharon was leaving
it all out there. So maybe it was more intense for the band towards the end, knowing
what was coming, but that’s the only way she knew how to sing her whole life—like
it was her last day on earth.”

The band has released two music videos for the album. “Matter Of Time” features 
a poignant assortment of clips of Jones, paired with her remarkable vocal performance.

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The other video is for “Call On God,” a tune Jones wrote in the 1970s for E.L. Fields’
Gospel Wonders, a choir she sang with throughout most of her life at the Universal
Church of God in New York City.

This original recording of “Call On God” made with the Dap-Kings dates back to 2007
and the recording sessions for the album _100 Days,100 Nights_. Just like on the
song “Answer Me” from that album, Sharon played piano and sang her parts live with
the band.

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On Dec. 18, 2016, Pastor Margot Fields (E.L.’s widow) presided over Jones’ memorial
service in Brooklyn, which was attended by several of the original members of the
Gospel Wonders. Together again, they performed a moving tribute to Jones as part
of the service.

After the service, Mann and the Dap-Kings invited the singers to the Daptone House
of Soul studios in Brooklyn to finish “Call On God” with them. At the studio, the
members of the choir put on headphones and heard Jones’ voice singing the song she
wrote for them three decades earlier. Jones had always wanted to add background 
vocals to the song, so she would have been happy to know that her old friends had
come through to sing with her one final time.

![Картинки по запросу Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings](https://i0.wp.com/www.deeppocketsjazz.
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