Faith in a New Key, by Presbybop Music

Faith in a New Key

by Presbybop Music

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1.	Presbybop 03:18		buy track
2.	Two Statues Sit in My Study 01:30		buy track
3.	Route 206 05:30		buy track
4.	The Place to Begin 01:29		buy track
5.	Be Thou My Vision 05:19		buy track
6.	Jazz Musicians Participate in an Act of New Creation 01:47		buy track
7.	Dawn Shall Break Again 09:01		buy track
8.	In a Jazz Group Each Musician Has a Role 01:18		buy track
9.	All Thumbs 04:47		buy track
10.	There Is Something About Jazz That Cannot Be Written Down 00:57		buy track
11.	Babylon Blues 09:48		buy track
12.	How Does Somebody Learn to Play This Music 01:35		buy track
13.	Walking in Somebody Else's Footsteps 05:36		buy track
14.	According to the Fifth Chapter of Revelation 00:54		buy track
15.	A Canticle of Love 04:58		buy track
16.	Something New Can Happen 01:33		buy track
17.	A Bridge Between 06:26		buy track
18.	From the Vantage Point of a Piano Bench 01:13		buy track
19.	Amazing Grace 03:59	info	buy track

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Here is our very first CD, "Faith in a New Key: A Conversation between Jazz and Christian Faith," recorded in 1998.

Bill Carter is a jazz pianist and the primary composer/arranger for the Presbybop Quartet. Other musicians in the quartet, which Carter founded in 1993, include Al Hamme on saxophone, Tony Marino on bass, and Tom Whaley on drums. They are joined on the CD by vocalists Jacque Tara Washington and Carol Ann North.

The CD project was conceived when Princeton Seminary's Center of Continuing Education invited Carter and his quartet to perform at a summer Institute of Theology in 1997. That program, which included jazz arrangements for piano, saxophone, acoustic bass, and drums as well as Carter's reflections on the theology behind and within the music, became the kernel for the compact disc.

The disc includes ten musical arrangements, including jazz renditions of hymn tunes ("Be Thou My Vision" and "Amazing Grace" are two) and several of Carter's original compositions.

Among the latter are "Dawn Shall Break Again," a tune Carter calls "the most personal on the recording," written as he was "mulling over a long list of personal problems as the sun suddenly broke over the mountain in the back of my house," and he recalled the Advent text of Luke 1: 78; and "All Thumbs," an up-tempo blues piece written for a performance benefiting Habitat for Humanity.

Interspersed among the musical numbers are Carter's reflections on the relationship between the jazz art form and theology. "A faithful life begins and ends with the praise of God," says Carter. "In praise, we cut ourselves loose from all that enslaves us. The jazz form of music does this, too."

Bill Carter hopes the CD will help the church "to think creatively about the importance of the arts in ministry, and the place of jazz music in the church's worship. "

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released October 1, 1998

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Presbybop Music Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania

Presbybop Music is a musical venture of Bill Carter, jazz pianist and Presbyterian minister. After years of pretending to split the life of faith from the music of jazz, Bill has been trying to find links between the two halves of his brain. Presbybop Music is his attempt to integrate his strong Presbyterian faith with the rhythms of bebop. ... more

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