title: Liturgical Jazz
text: # Liturgical Jazz
  
  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
  
  * Prelude
  * Collect for purity of heart
  * Hymn of praise: "Love Divine" (Charles Wesley)
  * 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)
  * Te Deum
  * New Testament Lesson (II Peter 1:3-11)
  * Benedictus
  * The Apostles' Creed
  * Witness to the Word: Sermon
  * 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
  * 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
  