Requiem for Jazz

Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering

INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin

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

KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci

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

DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit

Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes

TUBA MIRUM- The Changes

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

REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future

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

RECORDARE-Recall the Joy

Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro

CONFUTATIS-Repression

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

LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow

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

OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility

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

SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy

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

AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead!

LUX AETERNA – Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhapsody (Severson-Leist) feat. Marshall Allen & Knoel Scott

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