Requiem for Jazz

Description

The album is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film ‘The Cry of Jazz.’

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Jazz Is Merely the Negroes Cry of Joy & Suffering – Angel Bat Dawid
2. Introit: Joy N’ Suff’rin – Angel Bat Dawid
3. Jazz Is the Musical Expression of the Triumph of the Negroes Spirit – Angel Bat Dawid
4. Kyrie Eleison: Lawd Hav’ Merci – Angel Bat Dawid
5. This Endless Repetition Is Like a Chan Around the Spirit. And Is a Reflection of the Denial of a Future to the Negro in the American Way of Life – Angel Bat Dawid
6. Dias Ire: Chain Around the Spirit – Angel Bat Dawid
7. Another Restraining Factor in Jazz Are the Changes – Angel Bat Dawid
8. Tuba Mirum: The Changes – Angel Bat Dawid
9. The Negro Experiences the Endless Daily Humiliation of American Life Which Bequeaths Him a Futureless Future – Angel Bat Dawid
10. Rex Tremendae: Futureless Future – Angel Bat Dawid
11. The Negro Transforms America’s Image of Him Into a Transport of Joy! – Angel Bat Dawid
12. Recordare: Recall the Joy – Angel Bat Dawid
13. Jazz Reflects the Improvised Life Thrust Upon the Negro – Angel Bat Dawid
14. Confutatis: Repression – Angel Bat Dawid
15. Through Spirituals, Through the Blues, Then Through Jazz We Made a Memory of Our Past and a Promise of All to Come – Angel Bat Dawid
16. Lacrimosa: Weeping Our Lady of Sorrow – Angel Bat Dawid
17. Because Jazz Is the One Element in American Life Where Whites Must Be Humble to the Negro – Angel Bat Dawid
Disc 2
1. Offerturium-hostias: Humility – Angel Bat Dawid
2. Only When Whites Have Paid the Price in Suffering to Be the Negroes Equal – Angel Bat Dawid
3. Sanctus: Holy, Holy, Holy – Angel Bat Dawid
4. The Jazz Body Is Dead But the Spirit of Jazz Is Alive – Angel Bat Dawid
5. Agnus Dei: Jazz Is Dead! – Angel Bat Dawid
6. Lux Aeterna: Eternal Light/The Cry of Jazz – Angel Bat Dawid
7. Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future) – Angel Bat Dawid