{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Ring Out Joy | type = studio | artist = Ed Summerlin | cover = Ring Out Joy.jpg | alt = | released = 1968 | recorded = April 1968 <ref name=Allmusic>Bruyninckx, Walter. ''Progressive Jazz: Free, Third Stream, Fusion: Volume 4, Sh-Z''. Mechelin, Belgium: Mechelen Copy Express. [http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22Ed+Summerlin%22+%22Ring+Out+Joy%22+intitle:Progressive+intitle:Jazz&num=10 p. 1305]. Retrieved 2013-04-10.</ref> | venue = | studio = | genre = Avant-garde, free jazz, Christian | length = {{Duration|m=40|s=}}<ref name=Worldcat>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4480882 "Ring Out Joy (Musical LP, 1968)"]. Worldcat. Retrieved 2013-04-10.</ref> | label = Avant-Garde<br /><ref>[http://www.audiophileusa.com/item.cfm?record=64046 "Summerlin, Ed - Ring Out Joy"]. Audiophile USA. Retrieved 2013-03-27.</ref> | producer = | chronology = Ed Summerlin | prev_title = The Don Heckman-Ed Summerlin Improvisational Jazz Workshop | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = Still At It | next_year = 1994 }}
'''''Ring Out Joy''''' is the third album by tenor saxophonist Ed Summerlin, recorded in April 1968 and released later that year on the Avant-Garde label. The album marks a return to the religious concerns that characterized Summerlin's 1960 debut LP, ''Liturgical Jazz''.
==Track listing== {{Track listing | all_music = Ed Summerlin | title_width = 400px | headline = Side one
| title1 = Gift of Joy | length1 = 4:06
| title2 = The Coming of Christ, Part I Prelude: The New Men | length2 = 4:15
| title3 = Part II The New Humanity | length3 = 5:30
| title4 = Part III Parousia | length4 = 6:25 }}
{{Track listing | title_width = 400px | headline = Side two: Liturgy of the Holy Spirit
| title5 = Agape | length5 = 2:50
| title6 = Hymn | length6 =2:10
| title7 = Mysterium | length7 = 5:24
| title8 = Offertory Anthem | length8 =4:50
| title9 = Hymn of the Commitment | length9 =1:40
| title10 = Epiklesis | length10 =2:16
| title11 = Recessional Hymn | length11 =2:13
}}
==Personnel== * Ed Summerlin – tenor saxophone, conductor * Don Heckman – alto saxophone * George Marge – tenor saxophone * Marvin Stamm – trumpet * Bob Norden – trombone * Tony Studd – trombone * Ron Carter – double bass * Richard Davis – double bass * Ed Shaughnessy – drums * Rosemary Unutmaz – vocals on "Gift of Joy" * William Robert Miller – text * Choir recorded in London, April 14–20, 1968
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