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Requiem For Jazz

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"Requiem for Jazz is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by dialogues from Edward O. Bland's 1959 film "The Cry of Jazz". The original form of the music was created during the 2019 edition of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago, where Angel led a multigenerational instrumental ensemble of fifteen musicians (all Black musicians from Chicago's creative music community) alongside a four-person choir (with singers from the Black Monument Ensemble), dancers, and visual artists in performance. Angel mixed and post-produced recordings of the performance - adding interludes, additional voices and sounds, as well as transcribing a piece from the film "The Cry of Jazz". The final movement of Requiem for Jazz features Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott from the Sun Ra Arkestra. Their contributions were recorded remotely at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia. Sun Ra in Philadelphia at the end of 2020. The physical packaging comes in the form of a luxury gatefold, with notes from South African writer Nombuso Mathibela, an illustration by Damon Locks, and a large fold-out poster designed by Jeremiah Chiu, featuring a poem written by Angel Bat Dawid as a tribute to all her collaborators on the project.

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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 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...
  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...
  16. Lacrimosa - Weeping Our Lady Of Sorrow
  17. Because Jazz Is The One Element In American Life Where Whites...

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/My Rhapsody
  7. Long Tone For Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)

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