[Dixielandjazz] Re: Jazz in Church

[l.swain at comcast.net]

On 1 Apr 2005 Charles Suhor <csuhor at zebra.net> wrote:

> 
> The recent touching Jazz in Church message from Dave Stoddard 
reminded 
> me of a different jazz in church program that I'd like to share 
with 
> you. In  March we had a concert at the Unitarian Universalist 
> Fellowship in Montgomery, Ala., by Rev. Steve Crump, the UU 
Minster in 
> Baton Rouge, La. He’s a first-rate jazz vocalist. Steve sang jazz 
> standards with a local quartet and had backup tapes for songs 
from his 
> excellent CD of originals, Relationship Jazz. He doesn’t deal in 
> well-worn pieties but explores different kinds and shades of 
> relationships. Nice stuff. Steve does jazz services as well as 
> concerts. You can check out his website at hear samples at  
> http://www.relationshipjazz.com/

Ed Kemp, pastor of the Congregational Church in Milford, MA, has 
been conducting an OKOM jazz worship service every year for the 
past few years, with top-notch area musicians, including Ed 
himself. 

Milford is over an hour's drive away for me, and I'm not a 
Congregationalist, but I wouldn't miss this for anything.

Some pictures from the service two years ago can be found at

			http://tinyurl.com/3vosy

Larry Swain

l.swain at comcast.net
617 (571) 7885