Requiem for Jazz Image
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Summary: The latest full-length release from Angel Bat Dawid was inspired in part by Edward O. Bland's 1959 film "The Cry of Jazz" and features live recordings from 2019's Hyde Park Jazz Festival.
Record Label: International Anthem
Genre(s): Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Folk Jazz, Modern Free
Credit: Primary Artist Producer
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Track Listings

01 Jazz Is Merely the Negroes Cry of Joy & Suffering 13 Jazz Reflects the Improvised Life Thrust Upon the Negro
02 Introit - Joy N' Suff'rin 14 Confutatis - Repression
03 Jazz Is the Musical Expression of the Triumph of the Negroes Spirit 15 Through Spirituals, Through the Blues, then Through Jazz We Made a Memory of Our Past and a Promise of All to Come
04 Kyrie Eleison - Lawd Hav' Merci 16 Lacrimosa - Weeping Our Lady of Sorrow
05 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 17 Because Jazz Is the One Element in American Life Where Whites Must Be Humble to the Negro
06 Dias Ire - Chain Around the Spirit 18 Offerturium - Hostias - Humility
07 Another Restraining Factor in Jazz Are the Changes 19 Only When Whites Have Paid the Price in Suffering to Be the Negroes Equal
08 Tuba Mirum - the Changes 20 Sanctus - Holy, Holy, Holy
09 Negro Experiences the Endless Daily Humiliation of American Life Which Bequeaths Him a Futureless Future 21 Jazz Body Is Dead But the Spirit of Jazz Is Alive
10 Rex Tremendae – Futureless Future 22 Agnus Dei - Jazz Is Dead!
11 Negro Transforms America's Image of Him Into a Transport of Joy! 23 Lux Aeterna - Eternal Light/My Rhapsody
12 Recordare - Recall the Joy 24 Long tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Daughter Gift.... Our Future)