LIFETIME REBEL (Ref. ROG-0137)

This amazing boxset is the complete recording of Joëlle Léandre's Lifetime Achievement evening that opened the 2023 issue of Vision Festival at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA. It is most likely to best summary of the first 50 years of Joëlle Leéandre incredible carreer. It also contains a film of a 2023 interview of Joëlle Léandre that give a very good overview of who she is and what she went through.

BOXSET
4 CDs, 1 DVD, 1 booklet
Texts and liner notes: William Parker, John Sharpe, Michel Dorbon, Fred Moten, Craig Taborn, Nicole Mitchell, Christian Pouget
Poems: Fred Moten
Photographs: Luciano Rossetti @Phocus Agency, Nicolas Dorbon, Jean-Marc Foussat

Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

TIGER TRIO (CD-1)
All compositions by Joëlle Léandre, Nicole Mitchell and Myra Melford

Recorded live by Stephen Schmidt on June 13th, 2023, at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA as part of Vision Festival 2023
Mixing and mastering: Maïkôl Seminatore

ROARING TREE (CD-2)
All compositions by Joëlle Léandre, Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri

Recorded live by Stephen Schmidt on June 13th, 2023, at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA as part of Vision Festival 2023
Mixing and mastering: Maïkôl Seminatore

ATLANTIC AVE. SEPTET (CD-3)
Composition by Joëlle Léandre

Recorded live by Maïkôl Seminatore on January 25th 2024 at Auditorium Jean-Pierre Miquel, Vincennes, France as part of Sons d'hiver festival 2024
Mixing and mastering: Maïkôl Seminatore

JOELLE LEANDRE - FRED MOTEN (CD-4)
Music composed by Joëlle Léandre
Poems by Fred Moten

Recorded live by Stephen Schmidt on June 13th, 2023, at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA as part of Vision Festival 2023
Mixing and mastering: Maïkôl Seminatore

JOELLE LEANDRE - STRUGLE, LIFE, MUSIC (DVD)
Joëlle Léandre interviewed by Michel Dorbon.
Five sequences of interviw separated by bass solos.
The movie was shot live in one take on February 12th 2023 in Le Thoronet, Var, France.
It was commissioned by Arts for Art in celebration of the life and music of Joëlle Léandre at VISION 2023.
Music composition by Joëlle Léandre

Even at my age I keep this rage, and this is political. I have this fire, I don't know where it comes from; it's just me. I kept this utopia to change the world, because, of course, I'm a rebel. We have to change the world, and art can change the world. Joëlle Léandre