Angel Dawid Bat - Requiem For JazzDouble vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster. Composer, clarinetist, singer and educator Angel Bat Dawid announces the release of Requiem For Jazz. A 12 movement suite composed, arranged, and inspired in part by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's 1959 film The Cry of Jazz, the album is a wide ranging treatise on the African American story from one of it's most astute narrators. Itself an incisive critique of racial politics in the USA,

and the recently-published "Glam

the musical sensibility and

at the helm of the Weimar court orchestra

1 featuring Clifford Brown

These albums show the mainstream music industry's attempt at cashing in on the then new psychedelic sounds coming from the east and west coasts

reverb-drenched guitars evoke Galaxie 500

"I Thought Of You" and "Beautiful Lies"

'"So the story of Westing

" Presented here is the original single plus bonus radio edit

His amazing music however

the quartets of Opus 54 immerse us in the bountiful universe of "the Father of the String Quartet"

by which time the composer's reputation had spread far beyond the kingdom of Naples