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Requiem For Jazz (Gate) (Ofgv) (Post) [LP], Angel Bat Dawid, Vinyl

$35.99Vinyl

Label: International Anthem
Released: March 24, 2023
Format: Vinyl
Condition: New
UPC: 789993992720

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About This Record

Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster. Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid announces the release of Requiem For Jazz. A 12-movement suite composed, arranged, and inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's 1959 film The Cry of Jazz, the album is a wide-ranging treatise on the African American story from one of it's most astute narrators. Itself an incisive critique of racial politics in the USA, The Cry of Jazz draws formal comparisons between the structure of jazz music and the African American experience - as one of freedom and restraint, of joy and suffering - that manifests in the triumph of spirit over the crushing prejudice of daily life. Cutting together archive reels from Black neighborhoods in Chicago with live performance footage from Sun Ra and his Arkestra among others, the film remains a radical and prescient evocation of Black pride and it's roots in the history of jazz, from spirituals to blues and beyond.

Tracklist

Tracklist for Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem For Jazz (Gate) (Ofgv) (Post) [LP]
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 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	Long Tone For Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)