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Taking Jazz to Spiritual Settings

The Jazz Sanctuary Quintet, (left to right) - Leon Jordan, Eddie Etkins, Alan Segal, Randy Sutin and George Sinkler

The Jazz Sanctuary is an organization that takes jazz into houses of worship and other nontraditional venues. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, founder Alan Segal says jazz and the spiritual community drove his recovery from a life-threatening crisis.

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Listen to more of Susan's interview with The Jazz Sanctuary's founder Alan Segal.

The Jazz Sanctuary presents concerts open to the public at houses of worship and other non-profit venues. Information about upcoming concerts.

Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.