Sacred Concert by Duke Ellington is one of the following realisations: * 1965 - Concert of Sacred Music * 1968 - Second Sacred Concert * 1973 - Third Sacred Concert Ellington called these concerts "the most important thing I have ever done". He said many times that he was not trying to compose a "Mass" (liturgy). The critic Gary Giddins has characterized these concerts as Ellington bringing the Cotton Club revue to the church.