{"id":1315,"date":"2011-07-17T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yearofsundays\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2011-07-17T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T21:13:14","slug":"tonight-portlands-top-jazz-at-augustana-lutheran-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yearofsundays\/2011\/07\/tonight-portlands-top-jazz-at-augustana-lutheran-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Tonight: Portland&#8217;s Top Jazz at Augustana Lutheran Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yearofsundays\/2011\/07\/tonight-portlands-top-jazz-at-augustana-lutheran-church.html\/jzportmon\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1316\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/235\/2011\/07\/jzPortMon-450x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Joel Gunz<\/p>\n<p>Every Sunday at 6 p.m., Augustana Lutheran Church does a Jazz Service, starring some of Portland&#8217;s musical luminaries, like diva Marilyn Keller and legendary drummer and Pope of the jam session scene Ron Steen.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure the church has taken its share of flack for this (isn&#8217;t jazz worldly, or something?), but when you stop and think about it, live jazz during a church service makes perfect sense. After all, jazz and the blues got a major jump start in African American churches a century ago in the deep south. So the circle is complete.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>Portland Monthly<\/em> magazine says, these musicians &#8220;come together to entertain all comers with an entirely different sort of food for the soul. And because the landlord wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way: no cover charge.&#8221; Sounds good to me. As Duke Ellington once said, which is part of our credo on this blog,\u00a0 &#8220;If it sounds good, it is good.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joel Gunz Every Sunday at 6 p.m., Augustana Lutheran Church does a Jazz Service, starring some of Portland&#8217;s musical luminaries, like diva Marilyn Keller and legendary drummer and Pope of the jam session scene Ron Steen.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure the church has taken its share of flack for this (isn&#8217;t jazz worldly, or something?), but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,32,50],"tags":[400,403,162,57,402,401,55],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-lutheran","category-year-of-sundays","tag-augustana-lutheran","tag-food-for-the-soul","tag-jazz","tag-joel-gunz","tag-marilyn-keller","tag-ron-steen","tag-year-of-sundays-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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