Celebrating God’s Grace through Jazz

For over forty years, the ChurchJazz Band has celebrated the gift of God’s music with congregations in the United States, Germany and Slovakia. The repertoire includes the Jazz Passion, the Chicago Jazz Mass, the Jazz Psalms, jazz hymn festivals, a jazz vespers service, and Bending Towards the Light: a jazz nativity.
Orignal Compositions

Explore Church Jazz Orignals

A Jazz Passion

The story of Christ's passion​

Chicago Jazz Mass

Familiar Hymns and joyful new songs

Jazz Psalms

Sacred songs and poems

From the Video Series "Sancuatry"

The Story Behind a Jazz Passion

This show features interviews with David Abrahamson and Andy Tecson, and a new studio performance of a simplified version of the Jazz Passion for use by a church choir accompanied by a pianist and one instrument, with singers Kecia Waldschmidt, Gayle Bisesi, Daniel Riley, Dan MacDonald and Jon Negus, and Bobby Schiff on piano, me on sax, Geraldo De Oliviera on congas, Bobby Lewis on trumpet, Steve Eisen on flute, Ernie Adams (off camera, but providing a soulful drum track for the Resurrection), Tim Frakes behind the camera, and Roger Heiss in the Tone Zone recording studio at the soundboard.

We hope to find a publisher for this music so that choir directors at churches and schools can use one or more of the pieces for worship with just their pianist and choir (with one optional additional single instrument), as opposed to performing all twelve pieces with 25 musicians.