V/A John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop 2LP
OPAKOWANIE: WEWNĄTRZ OBWOLUTY 4 STRONICOWY INSERT
Pierwsza kompilacja Detroit Artists Workshop to rewelacja dla każdego fana jazzu, zawierająca niepublikowane wcześniej nagrania m.in Donalda Byrda, Moore'a, Rona Englisha, Lymana Woodarda, Benniego Maupina i Teddy'ego Harrisa. Wszystkie utwory zostały zremasterowane z oryginalnych taśm przez Technology Works.
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Strut and Art Yard present the culmination of a 5-year project researching the archives of author, DJ and activist John Sinclair with the first ever retrospective of the influential Detroit Artists Workshop spanning 1965 to 1978.
“In the mid-‘60s, Detroit was nowhere,” explains Sinclair. “A decaying jazz scene, no community of poets, painters or writers so a group of young Detroit artists, most of us students at Wayne State University, got together in the late Summer of 1964.” Led by Sinclair and trumpeter Charles Moore, the Artists Workshop Society was formed as a co-operative community, drawing upon the resources of every participating individual in order to perpetuate itself. They began to provide spaces in Detroit for musicians to rehearse and to promote live concerts showcasing a range progressive jazz artists across the city.
Between the mid-‘60s and the early ‘80s, Sinclair amassed a huge archive of recordings from the Workshop concerts featuring Detroit residents like Moore’s Contemporary 5, Ron English and Lyman Woodard alongside many other US jazz luminaries including Donald Byrd, Sun Ra Arkestra and Herbie Hancock. Dormant in the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Brooklyn for many years, Strut and Art Yard began their research into the archives in 2017.
A1. JOHN SINCLAIR INTRODUCTION / YUSEF LATEEF – HAPPYOLOGY 4.04
A2. DONALD BYRD – CHRISTO REDENTOR 05:43
A3. DONALD BYRD – BLACKJACK 04:30
B1. DETROIT CONTEMPORARY 4 – EFFI 08:46
B2. DETROIT CONTEMPORARY 4 – THE PROMISE 08:40
C1. BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET – WATER TORTURE 08:52
C2. RON ENGLISH - BEES 10:21
D1. TEDDY HARRIS – PASSION DANCE 07:55
D2 LYMAN WOODARD – DÉJÀ VU 05:54
D3. LYMAN WOODARD ORGANISATION – HELP ME GET AWAY 5.30