Requiem for Jazz [CD]

Requiem for Jazz is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film “The Cry of Jazz". The suite includes sounds of live performance at the 2019 Hyde Park Jazz Festival; Angel conducted a Black multigenerational fifteen-piece instrumental ensemble, alongside a four-person choir, with dancers. The final movement of Requiem for Jazz features Marshall Allen and Noel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra. 1. Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering 2. INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin 3. Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit 4. KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci 5. This endless repetition is like a Chain around the Spirit. And is a reflection of the denial of a future to the Negro in the American way of life 6. DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit 7. Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes 8. TUBA MIRUM- The Changes 9. The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future 10. REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future 11. The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy! 12. RECORDARE-Recall the Joy 13. Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro 14. CONFUTATIS-Repression 15. Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come 16. LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow 17. Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro 18. OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility 19. Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal 20. SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy 21. The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive 22. AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead! 23. LUX AETERNA – Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhapsody (Severson-Leist) feat. Marshall Allen & Knoel Scott 24. Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future)

• Format Detail: CD 4-panel Digipack w/ Insert Booklet
• Format: CD
• Genre: Jazz