Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz - LP

Double Purple Vinyl, Gatefold Jacket with Poster

Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid presents Requiem For Jazz, a 12-movement suite composed, arranged and inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's 1959 film The Cry of Jazz. A wide-ranging treatise on the African American story, the work draws formal comparisons between the structure of jazz music and the African American experience, one of freedom and restraint, joy and suffering. The result is a radical and prescient evocation of Black pride and its roots in the history of jazz, from spirituals to blues and beyond.

Features

• Double purple colored vinyl
• Gatefold jacket
• Includes poster
• Label: International Anthem

Track Listing

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
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
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
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