Angel Bat Dawid
Requiem For Jazz
Vinyl
Genre: Contemporary Jazz
EAN: 0789993992720
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Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid today announces the release of her new work Requiem For Jazz. The 12-movement suite was composed, arranged and inspired in part by dialog from Edward O. Bland's 1959 film The Cry of Jazz. The album is a sweeping treatise on African-American history from one of its most astute storytellers.
The project's music was originally premiered in 2019 at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago, where Angel conducted a fifteen-piece multi-generational instrumental ensemble of black musicians from across Chicago's creative community, along with a four-piece choir (featuring singers from the Black Monument Ensemble) as well as dancers and visual artists.
The recordings of the performance were then mixed and post-produced by Angel, who added interludes, vocals and additional sounds. In addition to the transcription of a piece from the film, Requiem For Jazz also alludes to The Cry of Jazz through contributions from Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra in the album's final movement, recorded in late 2020 at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia.
The project's music was originally premiered in 2019 at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago, where Angel conducted a fifteen-piece multi-generational instrumental ensemble of black musicians from across Chicago's creative community, along with a four-piece choir (featuring singers from the Black Monument Ensemble) as well as dancers and visual artists.
The recordings of the performance were then mixed and post-produced by Angel, who added interludes, vocals and additional sounds. In addition to the transcription of a piece from the film, Requiem For Jazz also alludes to The Cry of Jazz through contributions from Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott of the Sun Ra Arkestra in the album's final movement, recorded in late 2020 at the historic Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia.
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