Patrick Lundy and The Ministers Of Music – Standin’

Jesus is A Rock

Standin'

2003 has featured a comparatively thin list of stellar recordings by community gospel choirs. Principal chorales like the Tri-City Singers, New G and Youthful Praise are apparently all still in choir practice, electing to sit out ‘03. With the exception of Pastor Hezekiah Walker’s LFCC and Pastor John Kee’s New Community Singers and emerging chorales like Freda Battle & The Temple Worshippers or Lamar Campbell & The Spirit Of Praise, 2K3 has been a relatively uneventful choir explosion…at least until the arrival of Washington, D.C.’s Patrick Lundy & The Ministers Of Music and his standout release, Standin’ (AAMG). Eyes have not seen, nor ears heard the glorious praise of one of gospel’s best kept secrets today.

Offering a sense of seasoned artistry and an overdose of divine spirit, Brother Lundy & M&M take you on a musical and spiritual odyssey through fourteen songs and many moments of pure bliss. Their style bears finite resemblance to many of gospel’s great legends. The Thompson Community Singers, Thomas Whitfield’s Company and D.C.’s finest ambassador, Richard Smallwood, can all be detected, to varying degrees in Patrick Lundy’s music. Yet, Patrick’s identity is firmly in tact, as both a music minister and exceptional songwriter, as evidenced through the majority of the album.

The CD commences in uncharacteristic form with the operatic, meditative selection, Even Me, reminiscent of Smallwood’s Total Praise and Donald Lawrence’s Bless Me (Prayer Of Jabez). Such a solemn introduction prepares the listener for more than was anticipated, as the song successfully transports and arrives at a destination sure to please.

The album quickly whisks away to a more joyful number written by Minister Lundy with Won’t He Make A Way Somehow?, a selection featuring a couple of familiar figures from the Tri-City Singers camp, LaJeune Thompson on solo and husband Cedric Thompson as producer. The selection will sound familiar, since it’s currently featured on Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr.’s latest CD, Let It Rain (Tehillah); however, Patrick Lundy’s version gets the thumbs up with Cedric’s funky feel and the community choir’s urban edge making the difference.

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