This song was written in the 1930's by Louise King. After She got married it became Louise King Mathews!

I saw this performed live by the Alvin Ailey Dancers. I was awestruck.

2022...beautiful! Thank you for sharing...just beautiful!

Most beautiful prayer of the DYAD

It makes me cry every time I watch it... every time.

Masterpiece ; moving prayer , crystallisations of the human supplications for this MEANTIME that is impose on the MORE PERFECT! We are more , there is the higher democracy ! We are spiritual beings trapped in the DARWIN THEORY! There is the beast - THE MAN OF EARTH- and thee is MAN OF HEAVEN! 1 Corinthians 15: 45- 49

Loved April Berry when she was in the company

So gorgeous, so timeless....this choreography will look fresh and new 200 years from now (if there’s anybody left). I could arch it again and again, but it’s really the singing that gets at my heart!

6:14 this is jackie playing, right? I love that arpeggio he opens with. all the arpeggios he does in the back of this song sound so nice

JUST BEAUTIFUL!

Beautiful. 1st time I saw this. Praise God.

The next time some some snooty European says "America has no culture," just show them this video. Case closed.

I just adore the hauntingly beautiful dancing and the amazing rendition of this Spiritual... One word CLARITY.. without unnecessary pathos....I cry every time I see this Video!!!

beautiful

Absolutely love Alvin Ailey Dance Company. Fix Me Jesus is on of my favorite choreographed piece. "Fix Me Jesus". Amen.

My, my. And I cry, every single time.

Woke Up This Morning [Spoken Intro] from Alabama 3 brought me here.

Leonard Bernstein only did one film score- and it was genuinely a masterpiece. John Williams has said that this score & the works of Bernard Herrmann were major influences in developing his style.

Sooooo beautiful.

yo bruh who else here doing a experience paper on this bruh, like word word, we bangin' this essay last second

So this is what happens when brilliant professionals at the top of their game decide to collaborate. Neato.

This is my mother's (Hazel Johnson) choir for which she sang, recruited, and recorded with during the WWII era (at which time she toured Germany with the choir - The Wings Over Jordan Choir (founded and directed by Rev. Glen T. Settles). I have come to love the Alvin Ailey Dancers as a matter of this video years ago. The dance is graceful, gently, - yet, powerfully- expressive of the song, and contains signature moves of the Alvin Ailey dancers contained both in their Revelation series as well as in other projects. Thank you so much for uploading this.

Kazan was a dirty rat but he was a damned good director.

2018 and this still blows my mind absolutely stunning work

Watching this exquisite performance is good for the heart.

Mingus. That's all you ever had to say about him. He said all the rest.

i don't care what anyone thinks, Mingus is some percentage genetically white and plays as such., even looks as such. He thinks in poetic European way not merely Black American although he mostly is. I wonder about those jazz/blues men who played in Europe ~that it was a revelation when they got off the plane.

I cry every time I see it so Beautiful

Remember when you came to Bridgeton High School in 1988 and 89 and the general class laughed and I didn't I should have laughed because you thought that f***** s*** was for all time and it wasn't strangeness I've seen that face before

Gosh! He showed his base genius here. What a track, those constant base notes are very addictive.

I heard Phil Schaap's Charles Mingus birthday tribute show on a car radio a couple days ago on I-287, just by chance. He runs it annually, and it lasts over a full day. Schaap is this encylopedic jazz buff/historian on Columbia U. radio--and he gave such a dynamite summary of Mingus that I couldn't wait to find some great examples on KZbin. I always loved P.E., but after hearing about the trail that led here, it is even more astounding. Thanks for posting this!! (Google Schaap and Mingus if you want to hear a ton of anecdotes, analysis and trivia about this genius).

Who arranged this spiritual?

This takes my breath away.

CHARLES MINGUS : DEFINITLY " THE CALL OF THE WILD " ONCE HE HAD A FIGHT WITH MILES DAVIS IN THE STUDIO : DAVIS PUNCHED HIM ON THE FACE, WITH A SILLY THINKING OF HE COULD REALLY BEAT MINGUS, MINGUS FELT IT LIKE A SMALL FLY AND PUT DAVIS' S HEAD UNDER HIS ARMPIT, SQUEEZED IT, MAKE HIM WALK AROUND THAT POSITION IN THE STUDIO FOR 2 MINUTES AND SAID " YOU IDIOT, I REALLY LIKE YOUR WAY OF PLAYING, OTHERWISE I COULD TEAR YOU UP INTO PIECES & YOU COULD NEVER PLAY AGAIN...NOW GET THE .UCK OUTTA HERE... " // ANOTHER TRUE STORY : ONCE PLAYING IN THE STUDIO, MINGUS GETS REALLY PISSED AND PUNCHES THE STUDIO DOOR ! THE RESULT IS : THE DOOR GETS COMPLETELY DEVASTATED AND MINGUS'S HAND GETS IT TO THE OTHER SIDE :-)) MAY HE REST IN PEACE...

Thank God I experienced this with the originals when Ailey was alive. My extraordinary Jewish ballet teacher wanted to broaden our scope on our African American culture. She, like Ailey, was a marvel. Thank you, Julie Miesner.

had the pleasure of working with Alvin Ailey himself in the third company under the direction of Miss Dyer

Just the most beautiful pas de deux of5 them all. All Ailey dancers are classically trained ballet dancers. Which not only means they worked in slippers and point shoes, they also have the technique that ballet brings to the body for perfectly executed moves. Freeze frame where you'd like and you'll see sculpture.

Very beautifully danced. The male dancer is the late Kevin Brown, from Norristown, PA who came through Joan Myers Brown"s Phildanco. Rest in peace Kevin.

Wow

I feel touched and moved to tears.

BEAUTIFUL!

Only a genius could maintain such a balance between soul-soothing and thought-provoking.

Whoa fix me...

Chilling w/ the nephew and enjoying a jazz convo. Thought of this as good background. Thanks for sharing. Yes love.

I would watch these tapes for hours. That summer i went to Ailey. Mind BLOWING.

I cry every single time I watch this piece. Absolutely love it!

watched this yesterday for a school field trip... almost brought me to tears

Saw this show in chi last night, artistically just incredible! So beautiful and evocative though I'm not 100% convinced of the Jesus bit... Could connect with fix me breakfast

talk about ahead of it's time, perhaps it is still waiting for it's place. somewhere in the future.....

Beautiful