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WWW.Latimes.com. 24-10-2006---Edgar Summerlin, 78; Musician Wrote Jazz-Based Liturgical Works. Edgar E. "Ed" Summerlin, whose 1959 composition, "Requiem for Mary Jo," was one of the first significant uses of jazz in a liturgical service, died Tuesday in Rhinebeck, N.Y. He was 78. Born Sept. 1, 1928, in Marianna, Fla., Summerlin received a master's degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1952 and studied composition with Gunther Schuller and Hall Overton. He taught jazz composition, theory and saxophone at the University of North Texas in the late 1950s and was director of the jazz program at the City College of New York from 1971 to 1989. His albums include "Ring Out Joy" (Avant-Garde), "Liturgical Jazz" (Ecclesia Records), "The Improvisational Jazz Workshop," "Sum of the Parts" and "Eye on the Future" (all on Ictus Records). Summerlin is survived by his wife, Karen Jones Su m merlin, his son Jeff, and two granddaughters, Meghan and Erica.
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