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Jazz Priest Shapes Night Worship With Ellington Portraits
The Rev. John Garcia Gensel, a Lutheran pastor in New York, counsels jazz musicians and leads jazz vesper services at St Peter's Lutheran. He helped organize Ellington’s first Sacred Concert, sees jazz as a path to worship and life, and works to bridge Lutheran faith with the local jazz scene amid funding limits and ecumenical outreach.
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New York
Duke Ellington
New Orleans
Louis Arm
Wong
John Garcia Gensel
Board of American Missions
The
Lutheran Church In America
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Mantalan
Gensel
Nolan J. O'Connor
Johny Hodges
Piketon
Ohio
Peter's Lutheran Church
Advent Lutheran
Ellington
Jazz Yes
St. Peter's
Lutheran Church
Mansfield
New
York
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