Credits:

Angel Bat Dawid

Description:

Chicago-based composer Angel Bat David's latest work! Featuring Marshall Allen and Knoll Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra! Composer, clarinetist, and singer Angel Bat David releases his latest work on Chicago label International Anthem! This work is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat-Dawid, and the title was inspired by a line from Edward O. Brand's 1959 film "The Cry of Jazz. "The 23rd track, "Lux Aeterna-Eternal Light," is features Marshall Allen and Knoll Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra. With liner notes by South African author Nombuso Mathibela, artwork by Damon Locks, and a fold-out poster designed by Jeremiah Chiu.

Tracklisting:

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 Neg roes 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 w here whites must be humble to the Negro
18.OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humili tyOFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humili tyOnly 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.LUX AETERNA - Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhapsody (Severson-Leist) feat. Marshall Allen & Knoel Scott
24.Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future)