{"product_id":"angel-bat-dawid-requiem-for-jazz","title":"ANGEL BAT DAWID - Requiem For Jazz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD - \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4-Panel Digipak with Insert Booklet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposer, clarinetist, singer and educator \u003cstrong\u003eAngel Bat Dawid\u003c\/strong\u003e announces the release of a new work, \u003cem\u003eRequiem For Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e. A 12-movement suite composed, arranged, and inspired in part by dialogue from \u003cstrong\u003eEdward O. Bland\u003c\/strong\u003e’s 1959 film \u003cem\u003eThe Cry of Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e, the album is a wide-ranging treatise on the African American story from one of its most astute narrators.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItself an incisive critique of racial politics in the USA, The Cry of Jazz draws formal comparisons between the structure of jazz music and the African American experience - as one of freedom and restraint, of joy and suffering - that manifests in the triumph of spirit over the crushing prejudice of daily life.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCutting together archive reels from Black neighborhoods in Chicago with live performance footage from Sun Ra and his Arkestra among others, the film remains a radical and prescient evocation of Black pride and its roots in the history of jazz, from spirituals to blues and beyond.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs South African writer \u003cstrong\u003eNombuso Mathibela\u003c\/strong\u003e captures in the album’s liner notes:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Music is our weapon of struggle]\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethat radiantly holds our positive aspiration, group pride and determination as Black people. Sonics! our beautiful fire that gave light to the world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd a world that gave us blues. The blues that gave us Black in jazz\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDrawing a through line to today’s vibrant avant-garde, Angel Bat Dawid’s \u003cem\u003eRequiem For Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e picks up the liberation work laid out by Bland’s film, taking the message of joy and suffering within the Black classical tradition into a contemporary setting.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMusic from the project was originally premiered at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago in 2019, where Angel conducted a multigenerational fifteen-piece instrumental ensemble of Black musicians from across Chicago’s creative community, alongside a four-person choir (featuring singers from Black Monument Ensemble) as well as dancers and visual artists.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecordings from the performance were then mixed and post-produced by Angel, who added interludes, vocals and additional sounds. As well as transcribing a piece from the film, \u003cem\u003eRequiem For Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e also alludes to \u003cem\u003eThe Cry of Jazz\u003c\/em\u003e through contributions from the \u003cstrong\u003eSun Ra Arkestra\u003c\/strong\u003e’s \u003cstrong\u003eMarshall Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eKnoel Scott\u003c\/strong\u003e on the album’s final movement, which were recorded remotely at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia in late 2020.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“I want us to have this very wonderful conversation that Ed Bland started over 50 years ago and I want to continue the conversation; because this is a loving conversation that we need to have with each other” - \u003cstrong\u003eAngel Bat Dawid\u003c\/strong\u003e, Feb 2023  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Anthem Recording Co.","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":42899400982689,"sku":"SDZ-01577","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/products\/Angel_Bat_Dawid_-_Requiem_For_Jazz.jpg?v=1677080706","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/angel-bat-dawid-requiem-for-jazz","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}