Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz [2xLP] (New Vinyl LP)

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster. Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid announces the release of 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, the album is a wide-ranging treatise on the African American story from one of it's most astute narrators. Itself an incisive critique of racial politics in the USA, The Cry of Jazz draws formal comparisons between the structure of jazz music and the African American experience - as one of freedom and restraint, of joy and suffering - that manifests in the triumph of spirit over the crushing prejudice of daily life. Cutting together archive reels from Black neighborhoods in Chicago with live performance footage from Sun Ra and his Arkestra among others, the film remains a radical and prescient evocation of Black pride and it's roots in the history of jazz, from spirituals to blues and beyond.

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A1        Jazz Is Merely The Negroes Cry Of Joy & Suffering
A2        Introit - Joy N’ Suff’rin
A3        Jazz Is The Musical Expression Of The Triumph Of The Negroes Spirit
A4        Kyrie Eleison - Lawd Hav’ Merci
A5        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
A6        Dias Ire - Chain Around The Spirit
A7        Another Restraining Factor In Jazz Are The Changes
A8        Tuba Mirum - The Changes
B9        The Negro Experiences The Endless Daily Humiliation Of American Life Which Bequeaths Him A Futureless Future
B10        Rex Tremendae – Futureless Future
B11        The Negro Transforms America’s Image Of Him Into A Transport Of Joy!
B12        Recordare - Recall The Joy
B13        Jazz Reflects The Improvised Life Thrust Upon The Negro
B14        Confutatis - Repression
B15        Through Spirituals, Through The Blues, Then Through Jazz We Made A Memory Of Our Past And A Promise Of All To Come
B16        Lacrimosa - Weeping Our Lady Of Sorrow
B17        Because Jazz Is The One Element In American Life Where Whites Must Be Humble To The Negro
C18        Offerturium - Hostias - Humility
C19        Only When Whites Have Paid The Price In Suffering To Be The Negroes Equal
C20        Sanctus - Holy, Holy, Holy
D21        The Jazz Body Is Dead But The Spirit Of Jazz Is Alive
D22        Agnus Dei - Jazz Is Dead!
        Lux Aeterna - Eternal Light/My Rhapsody
D23.1        Eternal Light    
D23.2        My Rhapsody
D24        Long Tone For Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)