Requiem for Jazz is a 12-movement suite composed and arranged by Angel Bat Dawid, inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film “The Cry of Jazz.” The original form of the music was premiered at the 2019 edition of the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago, where Angel conducted a multigenerational fifteen-piece instrumental ensemble (all Black musicians from Chicago’s creative music community) alongside a four- person choir (featuring singers from Black Monument Ensemble), dancers, and visual artists in performance. Angel mixed and post-produced recordings from the performance – adding interludes, vocals and additional sounds, as well as transcribing a piece from “The Cry of Jazz” film. The final movement of Requiem for Jazz features Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Their contributions were recorded remotely at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia in late 2020. The final Requiem for Jazz work in album form is an immersive 24-track, double LP experience. The physical package is a deluxe, heavyweight gatefold jacket with liner notes by South African writer Nombuso Mathibela, artwork by Damon Locks, and a large fold out poster designed by Jeremiah Chiu, featuring poetry written by Angel Bat Dawid in dedication to all of her collaborators on the project. 1.1Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering 1.2INTROIT- Joy n' Suff'rin 1.3Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Ne 1.4KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav' Merci 1.5This endless repetition is like a Chain around the Spir 1.6DIAS IRE- Chain Around the Spirit 1.7Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes 1.8TUBA MIRUM- The Changes 1.9The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of 1.10REX TREMENDAE -Futureless Future 1.11The Negro transforms America's image of him into a tran 1.12RECORDARE-Recall the Joy 2.1Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro 2.2CONFUTATIS-Repression 2.3Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jaz 2.4LACRIMOSA- Weeping our Lady of Sorrow 2.5Because Jazz is the one element in American life where 2.6OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility 2.7Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be 2.8SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy 2.9The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive 2.10AGNUS DEI-Jazz is Dead! 2.11LUX AETERNA - Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhap 2.12Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi our Future