Requiem For Jazz
Angel Bat Dawid
Uncompromising, often compelling music from an artist who is steeped in history but not shackled to its standardized narratives. — More…
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Contents
1. Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering 01:05
2. INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin 03:33
3. Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit 01:14
4. KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci 04:59
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 01:13
6. DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit 03:51
7. Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes 00:43
8.TUBA MIRUM- The Changes 03:06
9. The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future 01:21
10. REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future 02:38
11. The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy! 01:33
12. RECORDARE-Recall the Joy 02:06 video
13. Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro 01:40
14. CONFUTATIS-Repression 03:46
15. Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come 02:14
16. LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow 02:44
17. Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro 01:30
18. OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility 03:42
19. Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal 00:40
20. SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy 02:10
21. The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive 00:38
22. AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead! 02:06
23. LUX AETERNA – Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhapsody (Severson-Leist) feat. Marshall Allen & Knoel Scott 05:49
24. Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future) 02:35