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John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop
Artist
Various Artists
Label
Strut
Catalogue Number
STRUT158D1
Release Date
October 14, 2022

Art Yard and Strut present the culmination of a 7-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 Detroit for many years, Strut and Art Yard began their research into the archives in 2015.

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.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Introduction / Happyology (Sound Of Detroit Radio Show, 1978) John Sinclair Intro / Yusef Lateef 4:06 Buy

    Introduction / Happyology (Sound Of Detroit Radio Show, 1978)

  2. 2 Cristo Redentor (Live in Detroit, 1978) Donald Byrd 5:51 Buy

    Cristo Redentor (Live in Detroit, 1978)

  3. 3 Blackjack (Live in Detroit, 1978) Donald Byrd 4:18 Buy

    Blackjack (Live in Detroit, 1978)

  4. 4 Effi (Live in Detroit, 1965) Detroit Contemporary 4 featuring Charles Moore, Ron English and Stanley Cowell 8:42 Buy

    Effi (Live in Detroit, 1965)

  5. 5 The Promise (Live in Detroit, 1965) Detroit Contemporary 4 featuring Charles Moore, Ron English and Stanley Cowell 8:44 Buy

    The Promise (Live in Detroit, 1965)

  6. 6 Three Flowers Charles Moore 8:06 Buy

    Three Flowers

  7. 7 Water Torture Bennie Maupin Quartet 8:56 Buy

    Water Torture

  8. 8 Bees Ron English featuring Lyman Woodard 10:16 Buy

    Bees

  9. 9 Passion Dance Teddy Harris 7:34 Buy

    Passion Dance

  10. 10 Déjà Vu The Lyman Woodard Organisation 5:55 Buy

    Déjà Vu

  11. 11 Help Me Get Away The Lyman Woodard Organisation 5:00 Buy

    Help Me Get Away

  12. 12 Cheeba The Lyman Woodard Organisation 10:38 Buy

    Cheeba

Track List: LP

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

Track List: CD

  1. JOHN SINCLAIR INTRODUCTION / YUSEF LATEEF – HAPPYOLOGY 4.04
  2. DONALD BYRD – CHRISTO REDENTOR 05:43
  3. DONALD BYRD – BLACKJACK 04:30
  4. DETROIT CONTEMPORARY 4 – EFFI 08:46
  5. DETROIT CONTEMPORARY 4 – THE PROMISE 08:40
  6. DETROIT CONTEMPORARY 4 – THREE FLOWERS 08:19
  7. BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET – WATER TORTURE 08:52
  8. RON ENGLISH - BEES 10:21
  9. TEDDY HARRIS – PASSION DANCE 07:55
  10. LYMAN WOODARD – DÉJÀ VU 05:54
  11. LYMAN WOODARD ORGANISATION – HELP ME GET AWAY 5.30
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