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Old First Presbyterian Church
San Francisco, California

Jazz Vespers at Old First

 

Sept 14   Dave Rocha Quartet
Oct 5 Don Pender Quintet
Nov 2 Herman Hayte Quartet
Dec 14 Dmitri Metheny Quartet
Jan 4 John Callaway
Feb 1 Clairdee & Ken French Treo
Mar 1 Mad & Eddie Duran
April 5 Gerry Grosz Quartet
May 3 Anton Schwartz
July 7 Don Pender Quintet
Jeff Massanari B-3 Organ Quintet
Fred Randolph Quintet



Our Lord’s Jazz Prayer
Our Composer in Heaven
May Your name be trumpeted
Your bookings be full and well attended
Your Spirit unstop our ears and move our hearts and our toes
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us each an instrument and a solo,
As we seek each day to be Your song.
Forgive us for being out of sync, out of tune and out of breath,
As we forgive those who seek to limit the freedom of our notes.
Lead us not into dissonance and disharmony,
But deliver us from the belief that we can ever be separated from you.  Amen.

 

 

Press:
"An understated but insistent sax solo pulses around the Old First Presbyterian Church like a bebop prayer looking for a way to heaven."
- Jerry Karp in the March 6, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle article "Church Goers Catch the Spirit of Jazz."

 

Old First Presbyterian Church
1751 Sacramento St
San Francisco, CA 94109