Why not jazz? This is the question that Bill Carter wants to ask, or more specifically, why not Jazz in Church? This video explores how this swinging musical tradition can energize and deepen religious experience. A noted pastor, preacher, and jazz musician, Carter shows how the church can benefit from opening its doors and its arms to jazz.
Through stirring musical performances and insightful commentary, Jazz Belongs in Church offers first-hand evidence of how jazz can bring people’s spirits alive, how it can energize worship services, and how well it is suited for expressing biblical themes. Jazz, says Carter, is an opportunity for human beings, created in God’s creative image, to offer something creative in return.
Segments of the video include:
• The Seven Joys of Jazz
• Ways to Welcome Jazz
• Secular? Sacred? Yes?
• The Spirit of Jazz, a conversation with jazz vocalist Warren Cooper
• Questions and Answers
Also included is a full-length jazz worship service featuring Bill Carter, his Presbybop Sextet, and vocalist Warren Cooper. This spiritual, life-affirming musical celebration offers stirring evidence that Jazz Belongs in Church.
A study guide for this video can be downloaded from www.presbybop.com.
Faith in a New Key – Faith in a New Key
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Dancing Day – Dancing Day CD
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John According to Jazz – John According to Jazz CD
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Psalms Without Words – Psalms Without Words - double CD
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Interior Window – Interior Window CD
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Stand On Your Head – Stand On Your Head
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Fragile Incarnation – Fragile Incarnation CD
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Listening for Selah
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Jazz Noel –
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Bill Carter and the Presbybop Christmas Eve Band
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Jazz for the Earth – Compact Disc
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The Dancing Calvinist –
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Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quintet
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Book: The Pilgrim Road (autographed copy) + Free MP3 download
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Jazz Noel Blu Ray Disc
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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
