Angel Bat Dawid Requiem For Jazz

• Angel Bat Dawid – Recordare - Recall The Joy

• 1. Jazz Is Merely The Negroes Cry Of Joy & Suffering
• 2. Introit - Joy N' Suff'
• 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. 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 (Angel Bat Dawid)/The Cry Of Jazz (Sun Ra)
• 24. Long Tone For Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)

An immersive 24-track albumexperience. Composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film The Cry of Jazz, with the final movement featuring Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra.