FACT SHEET

● For fans of Mary Lou Williams, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Alice Coltrane.

● All but two of Angel Bat Dawid’s current album Live’s 13 tracks were recorded with her ensemble Tha Brothahood at the 2019 Berlin Jazz Festival.

● Her next album, out later this year, will be a fully orchestrated 12-part funeral mass, Requiem For Jazz, which she premiered at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago in 2019. It was inspired by Ed Bland’s remarkable Sun Ra-soundtracked 1959 film The Cry Of Jazz (a YouTube must for anyone who hasn’t seen it) and will feature Arkestra magus Marshall Allen.