# Ring Out Joy

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Ring Out Joy
| type       = studio
| artist     = [Ed Summerlin](/source/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](/source/Avant-garde_jazz), [free jazz](/source/free_jazz), [Christian](/source/Christian_music)
| 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Don_Heckman) – alto saxophone
* George Marge – tenor saxophone
* [Marvin Stamm](/source/Marvin_Stamm) – trumpet
* Bob Norden – trombone
* Tony Studd – trombone
* [Ron Carter](/source/Ron_Carter) – double bass
* [Richard Davis](/source/Richard_Davis_(bassist)) – double bass
* [Ed Shaughnessy](/source/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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