The story of Christ's passion
Familiar Hymns and joyful new songs
Sacred songs and poems
Victorious, Eternal, Light: A JAZZ PASSION is a collaborative project between Pastor David Abrahamson and composers Andy Tecson, Bobby Lewis, and Bobby Schiff. The aim was to create a contemporary musical interpretation of Jesus’ ultimate act for our salvation, using modern language and the jazz idiom.
This show features interviews with David Abrahamson and Andy Tecson, and a new studio performance of a simplified version of the Jazz Passion for use by a church choir accompanied by a pianist and one instrument, with singers Kecia Waldschmidt, Gayle Bisesi, Daniel Riley, Dan MacDonald and Jon Negus, and Bobby Schiff on piano, me on sax, Geraldo De Oliviera on congas, Bobby Lewis on trumpet, Steve Eisen on flute, Ernie Adams (off camera, but providing a soulful drum track for the Resurrection), Tim Frakes behind the camera, and Roger Heiss in the Tone Zone recording studio at the soundboard.
We hope to find a publisher for this music so that choir directors at churches and schools can use one or more of the pieces for worship with just their pianist and choir (with one optional additional single instrument), as opposed to performing all twelve pieces with 25 musicians.