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Ed Summerlin (English Wikipedia)

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  • Miller, William Robert (1965). The World Of Pop Music And Jazz. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing. p. 87. LCCN 65--16962. "Perhaps the earliest use of jazz in a worship service dates back not much more than a dozen years, when the Rev. A. L. Kershaw, pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church in Oxford, Ohio, invited George Lewis and his Dixieland jazz band to play for his congregation. Rather than a structured liturgy, however, the Lewis band played classic blues such as 'St. James Infirmary' and ragtime versions of spirituals. [...] It remained for Edgar Summerlin to make the creative breakthrough. Summerlin grew up in Lexington, Mo., near Kansas City, and as a boy listened to the big swing bands. But it was the advent of Parker and Gillespie that really awakened him. Although he pursued conventional studies leading to a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, and showed ability as a composer in the classical idiom, jazz predominated in his thinking. When his 9-month-old daughter died in 1958, he wrote 'Requiem for Mary Jo' in jazz idiom as the most natural way of expressing his grief."
  • Schneider, Kent E. (1976). The Creative Musician in the Church. West Lafayette, IN: The Center for Contemporary Celebration. OCLC 2808598. "The first major use of liturgical jazz was developed by Ed Summerlin, a saxophonist and composer. In 1958 [sic], he wrote 'Requiem For Mary Jo' — an expression of his feelings over the death of his nine-month-old daughter. In 1959, working with Roger Ortmayer, professor of Christianity and the Arts at Perkins Sc hool of Theology in Dallas, Ed composed a jazz setting of John Wesley's 'Order of Morning Prayer,' recorded as Liturgical Jazz (Ecclesia, EP 101)."
  • Ellsworth, Donald Paul (1979). Christian Music in Contemporary Witness : Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Practices. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House. p. 117. ISBN 0801033381. "Ed Summerlin, known for his Requiem for Mary Jo and his work on contemporary religious television programs, has spoken for the cause of jazz idioms in the church. He reveals, 'I felt for years that bringing jazz into the church was a kind of end in itself, and that the reflective qualities of jazz improvisation were especially suited for the church.' Erik Routley supports this view when he writes: 'Church music is not concert music; it is, or ought to be, much more a music of personal involvement. Jazz is this and it can at least invite us to question our ghastly Protestant silence.'"

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  • "Jazz Goes to Church". Ebony. April 1966. pp. 77, 78. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Joyful noises were made unto the Lord when jazz giant Duke Ellington presented 'a concert of sacred music' at leading churches here and abroad. Below, Duke listens to singer Lena Horne during New York concert. Left, is Ed Summerlin, jazz liturgy pioneer [...] One notable effort in this vein was a jazz mass composed in 1958 by the Rev. Geoffrey Beaumont, vicar of a London church. During this period, Edgar Summerlin, teacher of arranging at a Texas college, wrote a jazz requiem to assuage his grief over his small daughter's fatal illness and later composed several jazz liturgies."
  • Partridge, Christopher; Moberg, Marcus, ed. (2023). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music. London: Bloomsbury Academic. p. 291. ISBN 978-1-3500-8262-5. "Predating this [i.e. the first of Mary Lou Williams's mid-1960s sacred works] was the perhaps even more haunting work of Ed Summerlin, whose Liturgical Jazz was written for his dying infant daughter Mary Jo, especially the 'Requiem for Mary Jo' that is at its heart. Similarly, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (1964) is widely acknowledged as one of the finest examples of jazz used to express faith."
  • Simosko, Vladimir; Tepperman, Barry (1971, 1996). "His Musical Biography". Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography and Discography. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. p. 69. ISBN 0-306-80524-3.
  • Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (1976). "Summerlin, Edgar". The Encyclopedia of Jazz of the Seventies. New York Press: Horizon Press. p. 319. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  • "1967 Films". Bianco e Nero. Volume 29. 1968. Retrieved 2013-04-15.

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  • Feather, Leonard.Liner notes for Hub Cap Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine. Blogspot. Retrieved 2013-04-01. "Freddie was featured on the Look Up and Live CBS telecasts with Summerlin, whose jazz-oriented writing for a Methodist Sunday church service created a sensation in 1959."

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  • Miller, William Robert (1965). The World Of Pop Music And Jazz. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing. p. 87. LCCN 65--16962. "Perhaps the earliest use of jazz in a worship service dates back not much more than a dozen years, when the Rev. A. L. Kershaw, pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church in Oxford, Ohio, invited George Lewis and his Dixieland jazz band to play for his congregation. Rather than a structured liturgy, however, the Lewis band played classic blues such as 'St. James Infirmary' and ragtime versions of spirituals. [...] It remained for Edgar Summerlin to make the creative breakthrough. Summerlin grew up in Lexington, Mo., near Kansas City, and as a boy listened to the big swing bands. But it was the advent of Parker and Gillespie that really awakened him. Although he pursued conventional studies leading to a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, and showed ability as a composer in the classical idiom, jazz predominated in his thinking. When his 9-month-old daughter died in 1958, he wrote 'Requiem for Mary Jo' in jazz idiom as the most natural way of expressing his grief."

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  • Heckman, Don (October 13, 2006). "Edgar Summerlin, 78; Musician Wrote Jazz-Based Liturgical Works". The Los Angeles Times. p. . Retrieved Jun 24, 2025. "Edgar E. 'Ed' Summerlin, whose 1959 composition, 'Requiem for Mary Jo,' was one of the first significant uses of jazz in a liturgical service, died Tuesday in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 78. Summerlin had been hospitalized for several weeks suffering with complications of treatment for cancer. [...] Summerlin received a master's degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1952 and studied composition with Gunther Schuller and Hall Overton. He taught jazz composition, theory and saxophone at the University of North Texas in the late 1950s and was director of the jazz program at the City College of New York from 1971 to 1989. After freelancing in the '50s as a tenor saxophonist with the bands of Sonny Dunham, Ted Weems, Tony Pastor and others, Summerlin became an active participant in New York City's experimental jazz scene of the 1960s. He performed with Don Ellis, Steve Swallow, Ron Carter, Sheila Jordan, Steve Kuhn, Eric Dolphy and Slide Hampton, and co-led the Improvisational Jazz Workshop."
  • "St. Andrews". Pensacola News Journal. March 20, 1932. p. 14. Retrieved June 23, 2025. "Mrs. W. E. Summerlin and children of Gasconade, Missouri, after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. J. S. Warren, left for Jacksonville Sunday to visit relatives and friends."
  • "Deaths: William E. Summerlin, Sr.". The Kansas City Star. May 23, 1970. p. 2. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "William Edgar Summerlin, 72, of Lexington, Mo., died yesterday at the Lexington Memorial hospital. He was born at Kynesville, Fla., and had lived in Lexington 22 years.[...] He was a member of the First Baptist church in Lexington. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Velma Summerlin of the home; three sons, Ed Summerlin, Pleasant Valley. N. Y.; Lee Summerlin, 5113 Lowell, Shawnee; William Summerlin, Jr., Lexington; a daughter. Mrs. Jonnie Peek, Urbana, Ill."
  • "Officers are Named by Various Classes; John Young Klapp Heads Seniors and Ralph Reavis, Juniors, in Election". The Lexington Intelligencer. September 19, 1940. p. 6. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Seventh grade — Edgar Eugene Summerlin, president;"
  • "Twelve From County To Get CMSC Degrees". The Lexington Advertiser-News. July 25, 1951. p. 1. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Graduates living in Lexington and the degrees for which they are candidates, include: Edgar E. Summerlin, bachelor of music education; Mrs. Virginia Allen Summerlin, bachelor of science in education;"
  • Porter, Bob (May 3, 1959). "Are Jazz and the Sacred Confines of a Church Compatible? Denton Musician Says 'Yes'; To Prove It, He's Written Whole Church Service". Denton Record-Chronicle. p. . Retrieved June 24, 2025. "In fact, Summerlin credits the inspiration for beginning his project to Bill Slack Jr., assistant pastor of Denton's First Methodist Church. [...] 'We hadn't been going to church since we had been in Denlon,' says Summerlin frankly, 'but when little Mary Jo got sick just before she died, Bill Slack Jr. was very thoughtful and helpful. He was a real comfort to us.' Out of the acquaintance between Slack and Summerlin grew the idea for the composition by Summerlin. [...] Slack says, "I hear in jazz a very creative and good music, filled with seriousness of purpose, with free movement and creativeness. "I don't believe church music need be limited in form. Jazz is a fluid music. It reaches many people. This idea is an academic experiment, not an attempt at a musical revolt in church music.'"
  • Associated Press (May 17, 1959). "Jazz Music Planned For Worship Service ". The Austin American p. 8. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "A personable young Denton composer will premier his new creation—jazz music for a protestant worship service—at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Southern Methodist University's Perkins Chapel. Ed Summerlin, 30, has just finished what may be the first musical order of worship ever fashioned out of jazz harmonics and idiom. [...] He will reverently dedicate it to the memory of his baby daughter, Mary Jo, who died in February."
  • "Allen-Summerlin Wedding Yesterday". The Lexington Advertiser-News. August 30, 1948. p. 2. "Miss Virginia Lee Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Allen of Independence, became the bride of Edgar Summerlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Summerlin of Lexington, yesterday afternoon at the First Presbyterian church in Independence. The Rev. Paul Bishoss performed the double ring ceremony in the presence of about 200 guests. [...] After a wedding trip to Evergreen, Colo., the couple will live in Warrensburg, where both will attend Central Missouri State College."
  • "College Confers Degrees on 189 Summer Graduates". Daily Star-Journal. August 3, 1951. p. 1. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
  • "New Business for Grocers Created in 1949 When 272 Babies Were Born in Carroll County". The Carrolton Democrat. January 13, 1950. p. 5. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "October 29—son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Eugene Summerlin, named Sharon [sic] Eugene"
  • "Remembrances: Virginia Wright". The Kansas City Star. December 9, 2009. p. 18. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Virginia Lee Allen Wright departed this world on December 7, 2009. She was born Independence, Mo., on Aug. 24, 1929. [...] She was preceded in death by her husband, William Wayne Wright and her parents, Gertrude and Euclid Allen. She is survived by her children and their spouses, Sean (Leslie) Wright of Desoto, Kan.,"
  • "Divorce Suits: Filed in Independence". The Kansas City Times. September 3, 1954. p. 4. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Virginia Lee against Edgar Eugene Summerlin."
  • "Divorce Suits: Granted in Independence". The Kansas City Times. July 6, 1955. p. 23. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Virginia Lee from Edgar Eugene Summerlin."
  • "Divorce Suits: Granted in Independence". The Kansas City Times. July 6, 1955. p. 23. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Virginia Lee from Edgar Eugene Summerlin."
  • "Town Topics: Births". Denton Record-Chronicle. April 3, 1958. p. 2. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "A girl, Mary Jo, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Eugene Summerlin, 1014 Vine, at 10:16 a.m. April 3 in Flow Memorial Hospital."
  • Baldwin, Mrs. Bernard (October 20, 1967). "Altha Personals". Jackson County Floridan. p. 7. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Mr. and Mrs. Ed Summerlin of Lexington, Mo. were visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Chason and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Flanders and other relatives last week."
  • "Visit in Eastern States". The Cameron News-Observer. February 5, 1968. p. 1. Retrieved June 24, 2025. "Miss Melody Price and friend, Miss Sue Cavanee of Kansas City, left Jan. 27 for New York City by plane. They visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Summerlin of Poughkeepsie, N.Y."
  • "Miss Jones, Mr. Summerlin Exchange Vows". Poughkeepsie Journal. December 29, 1974. p. 4A. Retrieved June 24, 2025.
  • "Colleges Across the Nation Give Degrees to Daytonians: Ohio University, Athens, O.". The Journal Herald. June 12, 1965. p. 30. Retrieved June 24, 2025.

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  • Lavietes, Stuart (October 24, 2006). "Edgar Summerlin, 78, Composer Who Brought Jazz to Church". New York Times. p. 45. ProQuest 433408324. Mr. Summerlin, who founded the jazz program at the City College of New York and directed it in the 1970's and 80's, composed Requiem for Mary Jo, considered one of the earliest examples of liturgical jazz, in 1959. He performed the piece, written for his 9-month-old daughter, who had died of heart disease, in a service at Southern Methodist University. [...] In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Jeff Summerlin of West Taghkanic, N.Y., and Sean Wright of De Soto, Kan.; two grandchildren; two brothers, William and Lee, both of Lexington, Mo.; a sister, Johnnie Peek of Urbana, Ill.; and a former wife, Mary Summerlin of Hyde Park, N.Y.

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  • Schneider, Kent E. (1976). The Creative Musician in the Church. West Lafayette, IN: The Center for Contemporary Celebration. OCLC 2808598. "The first major use of liturgical jazz was developed by Ed Summerlin, a saxophonist and composer. In 1958 [sic], he wrote 'Requiem For Mary Jo' — an expression of his feelings over the death of his nine-month-old daughter. In 1959, working with Roger Ortmayer, professor of Christianity and the Arts at Perkins Sc hool of Theology in Dallas, Ed composed a jazz setting of John Wesley's 'Order of Morning Prayer,' recorded as Liturgical Jazz (Ecclesia, EP 101)."
  • "The Celebrations". WorldCat. Retrieved 2013-04-01.
  • "Curious George and other stories about curious George (Audiobook on LP, 1972)". WorldCat. Retrieved 2013-03-26.