PRESS RELEASE

THE PHILADELPHIA JAZZ NATIVITY
AT OLD PINE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
4th & Pine Streets, Philadelphia PA 19106

Saturday, December 12, 2009 @ 7:00p
Sunday, December 13, 2009 @ 3:00p

Jazz Jam Session to follow the Sunday Performance

Music Media Ministry, in collaboration with Old Pine Presbyterian Church of Society Hill, presents The Philadelphia Jazz Nativity - an innovative celebration of the Christmas Nativity Story presented in the format and frame of the jazz music idiom. The production is an intertwining of narration, drawn directly from biblical passages, and music performance of contemporary and progressive jazz arrangements of traditional and original Christmas music. The characters represented include the wise men, shepherds, the heavenly host of angels and the innkeeper, as well as Mary and Joseph. The story is told by a special guest celebrity narrator and the musically theatric production will feature a jazz ensemble, choir and artists of local, national and international stature

Featured artists in the production include Philadelphia Jazz Saxophone Legend Bootsie Barnes; internationally renowned Sacred Jazz Vocalist Ruth Naomi Floyd; Philadelphia’s sweetheart of jazz Denise King, and Leon Alexander – lead percussionist and unit leader of the United States Navy Band assigned to the President of the United States. Other artists include Gina Roche, Chiquita Green, Kenny Kirby, Warren Cooper, and the Critical Mass Choir.

The Philadelphia Jazz Nativity is designed to be distinctively Philadelphian in character, with an international flavor, telling the classic nativity story in a contemporary and relevant way to promote love, peace and joy during these turbulent times. Performances will take place on Saturday, December 12^th (7:00p) and Sunday, December 13^th (3:00p) at Old Pine Street Church in Society Hill, an innovator in presentation of Jazz Vespers in the Philadelphia area. Each performance will be followed by a Christmas Reception and on Sunday there will be a Jazz Jam Session following the reception, where the entire Philadelphia Jazz Community will be invited to participate and musically celebrate the season.

Tickets to the Event are $20.00.
For general information call Old Pine Street Church at 215-925-8051.

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A Philadelphia Jazz Nativity, presented by Music Media Ministry, in collaboration with Old Pine Presbyterian Church of Society Hill.

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