From Adam White's West Grand Blog-
This may be a modest milestone, but it is one, nonetheless. Today, November 11, sees the first official reissue of a Workshop Jazz album in physical form since Motown introduced the label, a mere 60 years ago.

The late, great Detroit drummer Roy Brooks gets to be the hero of this particular moment, as his one and only Workshop Jazz LP, Beat, returns to market on vinyl via Universal Music’s Verve Records unit and the record-pressing arm of Jack White’s Third Man Records.

Beat is one of the first two albums reissued by Verve Records and corporate cousin Universal Music Enterprises under a resurrected “Verve By Request” banner. It’s available in the company of Ptah, The El Daoud, the 1970 outing by pianist Alice [McLeod] Coltrane, another Detroit jazz legend with a Motown connection. This catalogue project can call upon the abundance of relevant repertoire in the Universal Music vaults, and it has scheduled reissues into 2023, although nothing more from Workshop Jazz as yet.

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Back to the Workshop — Adam White [adampwhite.com]