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Various Artists –  John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop  [2xLP IMPORT] – New LP
Various Artists –  John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop  [2xLP IMPORT] – New LP
Strut Records

Various Artists – John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop [2xLP IMPORT] – New LP

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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.

This first compilation of Detroit Artists Workshop is a revelation for any fan of jazz, featuring previously unreleased recordings by Byrd, Moore, English, Woodard, Bennie Maupin and Teddy Harris accompanied by extensive sleeve notes from John Sinclair, Robin Eichele and Herb Boyd. All tracks are remastered from the original tapes by Technology Works.
 

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released October 14, 2022

2022, Strut Records - a division of K7 Music GmbH
John Sinclair (2)– Introduction Written-By – John Sinclair (2) A1b Yusef Lateef– Happyology Written-By – Yusef Lateef A2 Donald Byrd– Cristo Redentor Written-By – Duke Pearson 5:43 A3 Donald Byrd– Blackjack Written-By – Donald Byrd 4:30 B1 Detroit Contemporary 4– Effi Bass – John Dana Cornet – Charles Moore Drums – Danny Spencer (2) Written-By, Piano – Stanley Cowell 8:46 B2 Detroit Contemporary 4– The Promise Written-By – John Coltrane 8:40 C1 Bennie Maupin Quartet*– Water Torture Written-By – Bennie Maupin 8:52 C2 Ron English– Bees Written-By – Ron English 10:21 D1 Teddy Harris– Passion Dance Written-By – Teddy Harris 7:55 D2 Lyman Woodard– Déjà Vu Written-By – Lyman Woodard 5:54 D3 The Lyman Woodard Organisation*– Help Me Get Away Written-By – Lyman Woodard

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