Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering

Angel Bat Dawid

Requiem for Jazz

1 MINUTE AND 6 SECONDS • MAR 24 2023

Album tracklist

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Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering

01:06

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INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin

03:33

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Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit

01:15

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KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci

04:59

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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

01:13

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DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit

03:51

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Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes

00:44

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TUBA MIRUM- The Changes

03:07

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The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future

01:22

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REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future

02:39

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The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy!

01:34

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RECORDARE-Recall the Joy

02:06

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Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro

01:40

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CONFUTATIS-Repression

03:47

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Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come

02:14

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LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow

02:44

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Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro

01:30

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OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility

03:42

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Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal

00:40

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SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy

02:11

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The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive

00:38

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AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead!

02:06

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LUX AETERNA – Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhapsody (Severson-Leist)

05:50

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Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future)

02:35

Requiem for Jazz

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Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering

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