Liturgical Jazz

Liturgical Jazz
Studio album by Ed Summerlin
Released	1959
Genre	Jazz, liturgical music
Label	Ecclesia ER-101
Ed Summerlin chronology
Liturgical Jazz (1959) Improvisational Jazz Workshop (1967)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat

Liturgical Jazz is the first studio album by tenor saxophonist/composer-arranger Ed Summerlin. It was recorded and released in 1959 on the Ecclesia label.

Reception

Liturgical Jazz was billed as "a musical setting of an order of morning prayer." Down Beat awarded the album 4½ star stars, writing that "the combination of music and speech builds to tingling climaxes." It praised in particular Summerlin's deployment of a "drum solo behind the benediction," as well as "the walking bass backing the general confession," noting that these choices are "not only imaginative but also serve a function of greatly enhancing these parts of the service.

Track listing

1. Prelude
2. Collect for purity of heart
3. Hymn of praise: "Love Divine" (Charles Wesley)
4. Service of Confession: Scripture sentences; Call to Confession; General Confession; Prayer of Absolution; The Lord's Prayer -- Service of the Word: Versicle; Venite ; Old Testament hymn (Psalm 6) ; Old Testament Lesson (Hosea 14:1-7,9)
5. Te Deum
6. New Testament Lesson (II Peter 1:3-11)
7. Benedictus
8. The Apostles' Creed
9. Witness to the Word: Sermon
10. Service of Offering: Song Without Words (In place of Anthem); Versicle; Collect of the Day; Collect for Peace; Collect for Grace to Live Well; The Grace
11. After-service: Hymn: "Soldiers of Christ, Arise" (Charles Wesley)

All track information accessed via the UMKC's Nichols Library collection.

Personnel

• Composed and conducted by Ed Summerlin.
• Text read by Roger Ortmayer.

Featured soloists:

• Ed Summerlin – tenor saxophone
• Tom Wirtel – trumpet