Requiem for Jazz

12" Album

Tracklist

• 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 Chan 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
• 9: The Negro Experiences the Endless Daily Humiliation of American Life Which Bequeaths Him a Futureless Future
• 10: Rex Tremendae: Futureless Future
• 11: The Negro Transforms America's Image of Him Into a Transport of Joy!
• 12: Recordare: Recall the Joy
• 13: Jazz Reflects the Improvised Life Thrust Upon the Negro
• 14: Confutatis: Repression
• 15: Through Spirituals, Through the Blues, Then Through Jazz We Made a Memory of Our Past and a Promise of All to Come
• 16: Lacrimosa: Weeping Our Lady of Sorrow
• 17: Because Jazz Is the One Element in American Life Where Whites Must Be Humble to the Negro
• Disc 2 / 1: Offerturium-hostias: Humility
• Disc 2 / 2: Only When Whites Have Paid the Price in Suffering to Be the Negroes Equal
• Disc 2 / 3: Sanctus: Holy, Holy, Holy
• Disc 2 / 4: The Jazz Body Is Dead But the Spirit of Jazz Is Alive
• Disc 2 / 5: Agnus Dei: Jazz Is Dead!
• Disc 2 / 6: Lux Aeterna: Eternal Light/The Cry of Jazz
• Disc 2 / 7: Long Tone for Rayna Golding (A Binti Zawadi Our Future)