found: His It's all right now, c1977:t.p. (Jessy Dixon)
found: Jessy Dixon Singers. Jessy Dixon Singers [SR] 196-?:labels (Jessy Dixon, vocals)
found: New Grove dict. of Amer. music(Dixon, Jessy: b. 3-12-38, San Antonio, TX; gospel singer, pianist and composer)
found: Joy [SR] p1977:container (Jesse Dixon)
found: New York times WWW site, Sept. 27, 2011(in obituary published Sept. 26: Jessy Dixon; b. Mar. 12, 1938, San Antonio, Tex.; d. Monday [Sept. 26, 2011], Chicago, aged 73; singer and songwriter who helped popularize gospel music with his energetic style and who found a wider audience touring and recording with Paul Simon)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Dixon, Jessy; gospel musician / singer, pianist, songwriter, stage / screen actor, humanitarian; born 12 March 1938 in San Antonio, Texas, United States; attended a local Catholic college on a scholarship but dropped out to pursue a music career; received a doctor of divinity degree from Faith Theological and Christian College in Tampa, Florida; moved to Chicago as a teenager to join the group, The Gospel Chimes; wrote The Wicked Shall Cease Their Troubling, which earned him his first gold record on Savoy Records; invited to be on the television show Saturday Night Live as lead singer; recorded two albums with Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin' (1974) and Still Crazy After All These Years (1975); hit "I Am Redeemed" remained on the gospel charts for five years; presented the Gospel Artist of the Century Award by the Count My Blessings Hall of Fame (2001); received seven Grammy awards, several Dove awards, and five gold albums; died 26 September 2011 in Chicago, Illinois, United States)