Hello! We are so excited to be launching our new website, www.worshipjazz.com! We hope it becomes a resource that church musicians everywhere can turn to for creative jazz arrangements of hymn tunes in addition to tips, tricks, and suggestions for getting the most out of your jazz worship experience.
Within the next month or so, we will be adding our first set of jazz hymn tune arrangements that you can purchase and download electronically for use in your local church. You will have the option to buy hymn tunes individually or purchase a volume of various hymn tunes that can be printed out in book form. The arrangements will be set up similarly to a jazz play-a-long book (such as Jamey Aebersold’s jazz play-a-long series), with versions of each arrangement in a variety of keys and clefs. We hope that these options give you the flexibility you need for planning your jazz worship experiences.
In the meantime, we are getting our blog up and running. Our goal is to share with you ideas, suggestions, and experiences that we have when planning and leading our jazz worship services – hopefully these will inspire and guide you when doing your own! And we hope that you feel free to ask us questions as well, to begin a dialogue among those who are passionate about jazz worship.
We’re working on several different jazz worship events right now that we will write about in future blog posts. We hope that you will check back in with us soon!