Requiem for Jazz

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.'

Disc 1
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 Chan 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

Disc 2
1: Offerturium-hostias: Humility
2: Only When Whites Have Paid the Price in Suffering to Be the Negroes Equal
3: Sanctus: Holy, Holy, Holy
4: The Jazz Body Is Dead But the Spirit of Jazz Is Alive
5: Agnus Dei: Jazz Is Dead!
6: Lux Aeterna: Eternal Light/The Cry of Jazz
7: Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)

Colour Family: Purple

Number of Discs: 2

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