Amazing Grace book charts Aretha Franklin's seminal gospel album

A NEW BOOK by Aaron Cohen, Amazing Grace, tells the behind-the-scene story of the recording of Aretha Franklin's classic 1972 gospel album of the same name. Cohen, who is the associate editor of US jazz magazine Downbeat, wrote about Aretha's album made at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles when the singer was joined by James Cleveland, the Southern California Community Choir and others. Read a review in Mojo, "Cohen skilfully traces gospel music and Aretha's evolution, the social political and personal ramifications of 'Amazing Grace' and, importantly, just what it was like to hear Aretha sing gospel in her prime." The book is published by Continuum.