Angel Bat Dawid
REQUIEM FOR JAZZ
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
B1
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
B2
DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit
B3
Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes
B4
TUBA MIRUM- The Changes
B5
The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future QM84
B6
REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future
C1
The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy!
C2
RECORDARE-Recall the Joy
C3
Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro
C4
CONFUTATIS-Repression
C5
Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come QM84B2261015 Angel Bat Dawid
C6
LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow
D1
Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro
D2
OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility
D3
Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal
D4
SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy
D5
The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive
D6
AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead!
D7
LUX AETERNA-Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) -The Cry of Jazz (Sun Ra)
D8
Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future)