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Topic: Angel Bat Dawid summons a Requiem For JazzPosted By: snobb
Subject: Angel Bat Dawid summons a Requiem For Jazz
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2023 at 1:23am
The multi-instrumentalist explores the “African American experience” on her 24-track album.
Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid has released the details of her new album, Requiem For Jazz, out on March 24 via International Anthem.
The 24-track release takes inspiration from Edward O. Bland’s 1959 film The Cry of Jazz. The political documentary explores the relationship between African American history and jazz through footage of Chicago’s Black neighbourhoods, interwoven with performances from Sun Ra, John Gilmore, and Julian Priester.
Catch the first single, “RECORDARE-Recall the Joy”, along with a Cyrus Moussavi video.
Dawid first premiered the material at Chicago’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival in 2019 with a 15-piece ensemble of Chicagoan Black musicians, a choir featuring singers from Black Monument Ensemble, and dancers and visual artists. For the album release, Dawid mixed and post-produced these recordings and added interludes, vocals and additional sounds.
As well as dialogue from Bland’s documentary, Requiem For Jazz features contributions from the Sun Ra Arkestra’s Marshall Allen and Knoel Scott recorded at the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra in Philadelphia.
Speaking about the Requiem for Jazz, Angel Bat Dawid says: “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.”
South African writer Nombuso Mathibela adds in the album’s liner notes:
“[Music is our weapon of struggle] that radiantly holds our positive aspiration, group pride and determination as Black people. Sonics! our beautiful fire that gave light to the world. And a world that gave us blues. The blues that gave us Black in jazz.”
