Requiem for Jazz

Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering

Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit

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

Another restraining factor in Jazz are the changes

The Negro experiences the endless daily humiliation of American life which bequeaths him a Futureless Future

The Negro transforms America’s image of him into a transport of Joy!

Jazz reflects the improvised life thrust upon the Negro

Through Spirituals, through the Blues, then through Jazz we made a memory of our past and a promise of all to come

Because Jazz is the one element in American life where whites must be humble to the Negro

Only when whites have paid the price in suffering to be the Negroes equal

The Jazz body is dead but the Spirit of Jazz is Alive

LUX AETERNA – Eternal Light (Angel Bat Dawid) / My Rhapsody (Severson-Leist) feat. Marshall Allen & Knoel Scott