Workshop De Lyon (50th Anniversary) auf 6 CDs

6 CD Box-Set. Remastered. The oldest free jazz group in France (active since 1967)! The Workshop de Lyon has been singing, inventing, re-thinking, playing about with, blasting out, taking apart, reconstructing, analysing, innovating, exploring…and improvising its musical output. Dozens of compositions, hundreds of concerts, international touring, sessions with other musicians, long-term and short-term projects, and numerous records… he Workshop de Lyon is above all a sound. Whatever the project, the basic format consists of two wind instruments, a double-bass and drums. Although the reed players have changed (not that often actually), the sound remains readily identifiable, a kind of visiting card, or rather the band’s DNA. But the WdL is also an adventure, speaking of the group as a whole, and of every individual piece which is performed, where the unforeseen and the surprise factor avoid any possibility of sclerosis, and where both the soloists and the rhythm section are liable to embark on wild flights of musical fancy before returning to earth again, often to the sound of shared laughter.

Here is a list of those musicians who have been involved with the Workshop de Lyon, whether just for a day or over a longer period: Louis Sclavis, Patrick Vollat, Jean Mereu, Didier Levallet, Michel Portal, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Georges Lewis, Jacques Di Donato, François Tusques, Thomas Heberer, Noël Akchoté, Claude Bart hélemy, Steve Waring, Yves Robert, Ken Carter, Ernst Reisjeger, Claude Tchamitchian, Thierry Maucci, Patrick Charbonnier, Michel Mandel, Alfred Spirli, Guy Villerd, Red, Richard Raux, Michel Saulnier, Eric Brochard, Paul Vranas, Gershwin Nkosi, François Corneloup, Anna Kupfer…

Albumtitel:

CD1: Inter Fréquences
CD2: La Chasse De Shirah Sharibad / Bonus: Concert Aux Ateliers, Lyon 1979
CD3: Tiens! Les Bourgeons Éclatent...
CD4: Concert Lave / Musique Basalte
CD5: Anniversaire / Fondus
CD6: Chant Bien Fatal / Bonus « Arzana »