Liturgical Jazz is the first studio album by tenor saxophonist/composer-arranger Ed Summerlin.

Liturgical Jazz was billed as "a musical setting of an order of morning prayer."

Down Beat awarded the album 4½ star stars, writing that "the combination of music and speech builds to tingling climaxes."

It praised in particular Summerlin's deployment of a "drum solo behind the benediction," as well as "the walking bass backing the general confession," noting that these choices are "not only imaginative but also serve a function of greatly enhancing these parts of the service.

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