Shawn "Thunder" Wallace: Amazing Grace in Every Place

Dr Shawn Wallace is a vastly multi-talented musician, fluent on a wide array of instruments—reeds, strings, keyboards – and also a wide array of genres. He has won awards for his CD recordings, as a bandleader and as a sideman. Dr Wallace is also an educator – he is director of Jazz Studies and associate professor of saxophone at Ohio State University. He has his own podcast/interview series on YouTube called “Conversations with Doctor Thunder” with a hugely diverse guest-list. In this episode of Luminous we talk too about his groundbreaking project, near and dear to my own heart, which is a setting of an Orthodox Christian vespers service within the style of black gospel. Visit howsweetthesound.net to see some inspiring video excerpts and photos. And for more info about Shawn and his many projects, visit doctorthundermusic.com.