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. The gorgeous boxset contains four CDs, one DVD and one booklet: CD-1 features Tiger Trio (Joëlle Léandre - double bass, Nicole Mitchell - flutes, Myra Meford - piano). CD-2 features Roaring Tree (Joëlle Léandre - double bass, Craig Taborn - piano, Mat Maneri - viola). CD-3 features Atlantic Ave. Septet (Joëlle Léandre - double bass, Ingrid Laubrock - saxophones, Steve Swell - trombone, Joe Morris - guitar, Jason Hwang - violin, Mat Maneri - viola, Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello). CD-4 features Joëlle Léandre/Fred Moten ((Joëlle Léandre - double bass, Fred Moten - poems, spoken word). DVD features: Joëlle Léandre -- Strugle, Life, Music (Joëlle Léandre interviewed and double bass solo, Christian Pouget - director, image - Jean-Marc Foussat - sound, Michel Dorbon - interviewer). Booklet includes: texts by John Sharpe, William Parker, Nicole Mitchell, Craig Taborn, Christian Pouget, and Michel Dorbon."
