Requiem For Jazz

Side A

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 Negroes 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

Side B

1. The Negro Experiences The Endless Daily Humiliation Of American Life Which Bequeaths Him A Futureless Future

2. REX TREMENDAE –Futureless Future

3. The Negro Transforms America’s Image Of Him Into A Transport Of Joy!

4. RECORDARE-Recall The Joy

5. Jazz Reflects The Improvised Life Thrust Upon The Negro

6. CONFUTATIS-Repression

7. Through Spirituals, Through The Blues, Then Through Jazz We Made A Memory Of Our Past And A Promise Of All To Come

8. LACRIMOSA- Weeping Our Lady Of Sorrow

9. Because Jazz Is The One Element In American Life Where Whites Must Be Humble To The Negro

Side C

1. OFFERTURIUM-HOSTIAS-Humility

2. Only When Whites Have Paid The Price In Suffering To Be The Negroes Equal

3. SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy

Side D

1. The Jazz Body Is Dead But The Spirit Of Jazz Is Alive

2. AGNUS DEI-Jazz Is Dead!

3. LUX AETERNA-Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) -The Cry Of Jazz (Sun Ra)

4. Long Tone For Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)