[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Vespers

[Norman Vickers]

To; DJML

From: Norman Vickers

This from Philadelphia press.  Didn't know this person.  Reason for posting
is to get feed-back from listmates re what works and doesn't work for a jazz
vespers service.

I know they do it at St. Peters Lutheran Church in NYC and sporadically
elsewhere.

Any advice?  Our St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Pensacola has a jazz
service twice yearly, once on All Saints Sunday-lst Sun in Nov. - and then
in May, halfway to All Saints Day.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The Rev. Warren H. Davis, a retired rector and jazz
pianist who instituted jazz vespers at several churches where he ministered,
had died. He was 79.

Davis, who died of pancreatic cancer Thursday at Bryn Mawr hospital, had
initiated jazz vespers with his ensemble, the Gabriels, in 1986 at Old Pine
Street Presbyterian Church in Society Hill.

He later played jazz vespers at churches where he ministered, at St.
Gabriel's Church in Olney and at St. David's Church, in Manayunk.

"The marriage of jazz and religion worked well because in essence, the two
are based on spirituality and expressions of the soul," said Davis, a 1951
graduate of the former Philadelphia Divinity School.

The Gabriels also performed at local jazz clubs, and Davis had performed
with the group as recently as June. A memorial service will be held at 11
a.m. Friday at St. Peter's Church in Glenside.

 

 

F. Norman Vickers

3720 McClellan Road

Pensacola, FL 32503-3412

850-432-9743 (home)

850-324-5022 (cell)

850-433-8382 ( Jazz Society of Pensacola)

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www.jazzpensacola.com