Requiem for Jazz, CD / Album Cd

Requiem for Jazz CD / Album

by Angel Bat Dawid

CD / Album

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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.'

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 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
  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/The Cry of Jazz
  24. Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)

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£14.03

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 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
  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/The Cry of Jazz
  24. Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)

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