Various Artists

• DIGIPACK EDITION

DONALD BYRD / BENNIE MAUPIN / CHARLES MOORE
RON ENGLISH / LYMQN WOODARD / TEDDY HARRIS

This record is the end of five years of hard work by the Strut label and Art Yard. It is a first-ever Detroit Artists Workshop Retrospective across two slabs of vinyl with jazz legends like Donald Byrd, Bennie Maupin, Yusef Lateef and more all making the cut. The music comes from lots of hard research in the archives of author, DJ and activist John Sinclair. The end product is this glorious retrospective of the influential Detroit Artists Workshop with tunes that span from 1965 to 1978

ARTISTS & TRACKS:

• 01. John Sinclair Introduction / Yusef Lateef ....... Happyology
• 02. Donald Byrd ....... Cristo Redentor
• 03. Donald Byrd ....... Blackjack
• 04. Detroit Contemporary 4 ....... Effi
• 05. Detroit Contemporary 4 ....... The Promise
• 06. Detroit Contemporary 4 ....... Three Flowers
• 07. Bennie Maupin Quartet ....... Water Torture
• 08. Ron English ....... Bees
• 09. Teddy Harris ....... Passion Dance
• 10. Lyman Woodard ...... Déjà Vu
• 11. The Lyman Woodard Organisation ....... Help Me Get Away