Pomona, CA

Requiem for Jazz

Release date March 24, 2023
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Tracklist

1
Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering
1:05
2
INTROIT - Joy n’ Suff’rin
3:33
3
Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit
1:14
4
KYRIE ELEISON - Lawd Hav’ Merci
4:59
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
1:13
6
DIAS IRE - Chain Around the Spirit
3:51
7
Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes
0:43
8
TUBA MIRUM - The Changes
3:06
9
The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future
1:21
10
REX TREMENDAE - Futureless Future
2:38
11
The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy!
1:33
12
RECORDARE - Recall the Joy
2:06
13
Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro
1:40
14
CONFUTATIS - Repression
3:46
15
Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come
2:14
16
LACRIMOSA - Weeping our Lady of Sorrow
2:44
17
Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro
1:30
18
OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS - Humility
3:42
19
Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal
0:40
20
SANCTUS - Holy, Holy, Holy
2:10
21
The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive
0:38
22
AGNUS DEI - Jazz is Dead!
2:06
23
LUX AETERNA – Eternal Light / My Rhapsody
5:49
24
Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future)
2:35

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