Requiem for Jazz (Live)Angel Bat Dawid · 2023

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1Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering 2INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin 3Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit 4KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci 5This 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 6DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit 7Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes 8TUBA MIRUM- The Changes 9The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future 10REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future 11The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy!12RECORDARE-Recall the Joy 13Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro 14CONFUTATIS-Repression 15Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come 16LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow 17Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro 18OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility 19Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal 20SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy 21The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive 22AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead!23LUX AETERNA – Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhapsody (Severson-Leist) [feat. Marshall Allen & Knoel Scott]24Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future)

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pitchfork

8.0

“The Chicago composer and clarinetist’s latest album interrogates the supposed “death” of jazz. Structured as an Afrofuturist requiem, it offers an impassioned look at the genre’s role in Black history.”

guardian

8.0

“It may seem odd that someone has written a requiem for jazz when it seems to be in rude health. But Angel Bat Dawid’s third album is inspired by the 1959 film The Cry for Jazz, an audiovisual essay that, among other prescient comments on race and appropriation, makes the case that the art form is dead but its spirit lives on. As bandleader, composer, clarinettist and all-round tour de force based ”