Music plays a central place in worship, there is Christian Rock but is there Christian Jazz?

Many styles of music seem acceptable in church - rock, pop, choral, classical, African inspired gospel and reggae etc. but I have never seen or heard of Jazz being part of worship. Is there a reason for this? Is Jazz for instance associated with the devil?|||If you think that, my friend, you've never been to New Orleans. What do you think they play at funerals down there? Jazz, to see the dearly departed one on his way to God!|||You have to be stoned or high on heroin to get into jazz.|||There are lots of different ways to glorify God through music. I am a gospel singer/soloist myself and I've heard many different instruments playing for Jesus Christ. It all depends on if it brings glory to God. The saxophone has been played alot too. If Christ is lifted up it will draw all men to Him.|||Duke Ellington wrote a couple of sacred works, although the names escape me at the moment.|||Yes. Look up this on the Internet... all music can be Christian... if Christian/Godly words are put to it.|||Blind Boys of Alabama (you have to scroll down about 4 paragraphs to see the one sentence.





http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art6…


The Dove Awards featured nothing but unforgettable performances, starting with urban gospel duo Mary Mary’s high energy rendition of their Dove Award-winning Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song “Get Up.” It culminated with GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame members and double Dove Award winners the Blind Boys of Alabama bringing a New Orleans jazz sound to “Free At Last,” with special guest Mac Powell (of Third Day) who then introduced a final celebration of the 40th anniversary of “Oh Happy Day,” the 18th century hymn which became gospel music’s first mainstream crossover hit when it was arranged and recorded by the Edwin Hawkins Singers.


Hawkins himself was joined onstage by a group of artists including Donnie McClurkin and American Idol finalists Mandisa and Phil Stacey and Gospel Dream Winner Melinda Watts.





Angella Christiehttp://www.answers.com/topic/ang-lla-chr…





http://www.torontogospel.ca/GospelMusic/


http://www.gospeljazzcds.com/|||Any style of music can be Christian.





I think Jazz being associated with the devil comes from the Robert Johnson legend that he sold his soul to become a great blues player. Which he was. And some of the titles to his songs gives credence to this legend...Cross Road Blues, Hellhound On My Trail.|||Our church music director, an extremely accomplished organist, is married to a professional jazz musician. Periodically, his jazz quartet performs for the congregational worship. It is uplifting, beautiful, and works well in worship. It is also well received by the congregation. Some weeks we have a brass ensemble, others we have a full choir with great organ pieces, other weeks we have an old time gospel singing group with guitars, banjos, piano, etc. Some weeks it is a three piece vocal group with a single guitar. Sometimes it is a drumming group. We've even had a teenage rap group that records rap with clean lyrics. It is always different, always exciting, and always uplifting. Our church has an established outreach into the arts community, so we support and encourage the arts in worship -- whether it is musical arts, liturgical dance, the display of visual arts in the sanctuary, or the use of actors to present the Gospel reading (known as "the speech choir"). We meet in an old historic church building which is quite large, so we rent, at very modest fees, one of the upper floors, to artists of various kinds. On any given day, there is singing, dancing, painting, pottery making, etc. going on. As part of their rental contract, those artists donate some of their time to worship participation, and to work with our youth in developing their own artistic skills and talents, as well as conducting programs for at-risk youths in our surrounding neighborhoods and community. Almost every summer, we have had a Broadway actor who donates his time, again for at-risk youths, in a 6 week long program in which they write their own script, develop their own performances, and present the program on our stage, for the wider community. It is a wonderful atmosphere, and we believe it makes a difference in the lives of those youths, in the life of our congregation, and in our own spiritual lives. And, jazz works, on many levels.