The 11th Jazz Service at First and Calvary Presbyterian Church, 800 E. Cherry at Hammons Parkway, will take place in the church sanctuary on Sunday June 25th at 11:00am, functioning as the regular worship service for this Sunday. That’s not only a new date for this annual service, as it usually takes place in February around Mardi Gras, but also a location within the church. Howerver, the musicians remain the same—Dave Gravatt and the Creole Jazz Band with Gary Ellison playing piano and telling the stories of the great gospel songs in lieu of a sermon. In previous years the service has been conducted in other areas of the church, but this year it’s headlining the sanctuary. “We like to think we’ve finally graduated to the ‘main room’—we’ve been in the (First and Calvary) gym for ten years. And I am thrilled, because for the first time I have a real piano, not an electronic keyboard,” says Gary Ellison, President of local ad agency Gary Ellison Productions, and Missouri’s “Official
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