Jazzed Up Classical home
Mozart’s Jazz Requiem album cover

Album guide

Mozart’s Jazz Requiem

The Queen's Cartoonists

Composer
Mozart
Released
2023
Label
7 Train Records
Forces
Reeds, Trumpet, Trombone
Personnel
Joel Pierson piano and arrangements, Mark Phillips and Drew Pitcher reeds, Greg Hammontree brass, Steve Whipple bass and Rossen Nedelchev drums, with guests on xylophone, marimba, tuba, bass trombone and trumpet

The Queen’s Cartoonists usually specialise in scores from golden-age animation.

For their first studio album, Joel Pierson recast Mozart’s Requiem in the brisk chamber-jazz world of Raymond Scott and John Kirby.

No singers appear: reeds, brass and piano take every choral and solo line, and “Tuba mirum” really does bring in a tuba.

Hear both

The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsMozart · classical source works

Track 2 combines the Kyrie and Dies irae, so the classical player includes one recording of each and holds fourteen videos for the album’s thirteen tracks.

Jazzed upThe Queen’s Cartoonists · 2023
Open full album in Spotify

Spotify’s player is here for convenience; the full track listing below remains available to everyone.

Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Requiem aeternamRequiem in D minor, K. 626: I. Introitus, ‘Requiem aeternam’
  2. Kyrie / Dies iraeRequiem in D minor, K. 626: II. Kyrie, and III. Sequenz a. Dies irae - a compound source, two consecutive movements in one track
  3. Tuba mirumRequiem in D minor, K. 626: III. Sequenz b. Tuba mirum
  4. Rex tremendaeRequiem in D minor, K. 626: III. Sequenz c. Rex tremendae
  5. RecordareRequiem in D minor, K. 626: III. Sequenz d. Recordare
  6. ConfutatisRequiem in D minor, K. 626: III. Sequenz e. Confutatis
  7. LacrymosaRequiem in D minor, K. 626: III. Sequenz f. Lacrimosa
  8. Domine JesuRequiem in D minor, K. 626: IV. Offertorium a. Domine Jesu
  9. HostiasRequiem in D minor, K. 626: IV. Offertorium b. Hostias
  10. SanctusRequiem in D minor, K. 626: V. Sanctus
  11. BenedictusRequiem in D minor, K. 626: VI. Benedictus
  12. Agnus DeiRequiem in D minor, K. 626: VII. Agnus Dei
  13. Lux aeternaRequiem in D minor, K. 626: VIII. Communio, ‘Lux aeterna’