Angel Bat Dawid
Requiem for Jazz (2LP)
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Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid announces the release of a new work, 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 its 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 its roots in the history of jazz, from spirituals to blues and beyond.
Format
Tha ArkeStarzz:
Piano - Dr. Charles Joseph Smith
Contrabass - Jeremiah Hunt
Percussion - Vincent Davis
Auxiliary Instruments - Xristian Espinoza
Electronics - Norman W. Long
Flute - Dr. Adam Zanolini
Clarinet - Hannah Washington
Trumpet - Sam Thousand
Soprano Saxophone - Isaiah Collier
Alto Saxophone - Fred Jackson Jr.
Tenor Saxophone - Kwesaiah
Violin - J’Niya Blunt
Violin - DaJour Smith
Viola - Michelle Manson
Cello - Olula
Release notes
Requiem for Jazz - Composed, Arranged, Conducted & Mixed by Angel Bat Dawid except “My Rhapsody,” from the 1959 Ed Bland film “The Cry of Jazz,” composed by Paul Severson & Norman Leist (Glenayre Publishing Co. BMI), arranged by Angel Bat Dawid. Lyrics include extracts from “The Cry of Jazz” and the Roman Catholic Liturgical Requiem Missal. Requiem for Jazz Intros/Interludes Composed, Produced, Mixed & Performed by Angel Bat Dawid Requiem for Jazz premiered Sept, 30th 2019 at the Reva &…
| A1 | Jazz Is Merely The Negroes Cry Of Joy & Suffering | ||
| A2 | Introit - Joy N’ Suff’rin | ||
| A3 | Jazz Is The Musical Expression Of The Triumph Of The Negroes Spirit | ||
| A4 | Kyrie Eleison - Lawd Hav’ Merci | ||
| A5 | 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 | ||
| A6 | Dias Ire - Chain Around The Spirit | ||
| A7 | Another Restraining Factor In Jazz Are The Changes | ||
| A8 | Tuba Mirum - The Changes | ||
| B9 | The Negro Experiences The Endless Daily Humiliation Of American Life Which Bequeaths Him A Futureless Future | ||
| B10 | Rex Tremendae – Futureless Future | ||
| B11 | The Negro Transforms America’s Image Of Him Into A Transport Of Joy! | ||
| B12 | Recordare - Recall The Joy | ||
| B13 | Jazz Reflects The Improvised Life Thrust Upon The Negro | ||
| B14 | Confutatis - Repression | ||
| B15 | Through Spirituals, Through The Blues, Then Through Jazz We Made A Memory Of Our Past And A Promise Of All To Come | ||
| B16 | Lacrimosa - Weeping Our Lady Of Sorrow | ||
| B17 | Because Jazz Is The One Element In American Life Where Whites Must Be Humble To The Negro | ||
| C18 | Offerturium - Hostias - Humility | ||
| C19 | Only When Whites Have Paid The Price In Suffering To Be The Negroes Equal | ||
| C20 | Sanctus - Holy, Holy, Holy | ||
| D21 | The Jazz Body Is Dead But The Spirit Of Jazz Is Alive | ||
| D22 | Agnus Dei - Jazz Is Dead! | ||
| Lux Aeterna - Eternal Light/My Rhapsody | |||
| D23.1 | Eternal Light | ||
| D23.2 | My Rhapsody | ||
| D24 | Long Tone For Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future) | ||
- Fred Jackson Jr.
- Alto Saxophone
- Monique Golding
- Alto Vocals
- Phillip Armstrong
- Baritone Vocals
- Olula
- Cello
- Hannah Washington
- Clarinet
- Angel Bat Dawid
- Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor, Mixed By
- Jeremiah Hunt
- Contrabass
- Jonathan Woods
- Design [Visualz]
- Liz Gomez
- Design [Visualz]
- Norman W. Long
- Electronics
- Dr. Adam Zanolini
- Flute
- Kr
- Lacquer Cut By
- Najee-Zaid Searcy
- Mastered By, Recorded By [Live]
- Vincent Davis
- Percussion
- Xristian Espinoza
- Performer [Auxiliary Instruments]
- Aquarius
- Performer [Dancer]
- Viktor Le Givens
- Performer [Dancer], Set Designer
- Dr. Charles Joseph Smith
- Piano
- Dave Vettraino
- Recorded By [Live]
- Isaiah Collier
- Soprano Saxophone
- Tramaine Parker
- Soprano Vocals
- Kwesaiah
- Tenor Saxophone
- Deacon Julian Otis Cooke
- Tenor Vocals
- Sam Thousand
- Trumpet
- Michelle Manson
- Viola
- DaJour Smith
- Violin
- J’Niya Blunt
- Violin
