Chuck Nessa Posted June 26, 2005 Report Share Posted June 26, 2005 (edited) Tonight I received an email from John Litweiler detailing his experiences at the festival. I am astounded to see no reports here (did I miss some? - I hope so). More interesting to me (at least) than the Neverland Ranch thread. WTF are we about? Nothing wrong with humor but DAMN! Edited June 26, 2005 by Chuck Nessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 I hear you. I haven't heard much of anything about Vision this year. Did anyone here go? Any links to reviews? I've been hoping something would pop up here. What was Litweiler's impression? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted June 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 He is writing a review for Coda. With his permission I will post his email here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 I hear you. I haven't heard much of anything about Vision this year. Did anyone here go? Any links to reviews? I've been hoping something would pop up here. What was Litweiler's impression? ← I did find this. Jazz Times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Thanks Catesta. Chuck, I hope he will allow you to publicize his thoughts. I'd love to hear what he thought of WARM performance. The Bill Dixon/Warren Smith ensemble too! Also, that duet between Brotzmann and Nasheet Waits! And the Thurman Barker group. Hell, the list goes on and on. Jarman with Anderson... I'll look forward to reading his thoughts, either here or in Coda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 I posted the Vision Fest 2005 Schedule back in April, but didn't get much response either. I would have LOVED to have been at some of the performances!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted June 27, 2005 Report Share Posted June 27, 2005 Here's a somewhat dubious review. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 The Village Voice coverage on the Vision festival Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fent99 Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Some highlights broadcast on the bbc on Friday. Sounded good though I fell asleep. Still up on the webcast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 I hope we get to hear that WARM performance on disc! From what I've read so far, it sounds like a nice quartet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 Sorry - it was reported that WARM refused to have their set recorded. But maybe that means they have plans for something. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted June 28, 2005 Report Share Posted June 28, 2005 That would be a good thing as well. Michael, were you there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 Negative Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 14 photos of Jazz Vision 2005 (Brötzmann, W. Parker, Fred Anderson...) available in the Pictures section of this Yahoo group: jazz_sp http://es.photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ja...case.yahoo.com/ Guess you have to sign-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 EKE, I have no Vision when trying to link to the site you posted. All I get is a 'Mensaje de error de!' message Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 EKE, I have no Vision when trying to link to the site you posted. All I get is a 'Mensaje de error de!' message ← brownie: you´ll need to have a Yahoo account and probably to register to jazz_sp group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 I heard there were a lot of last-minute changes with the lineup, and some no-shows. I myself have lost interest in it lately because the last couple I went to were pretty much identical experiences. Though I did like Fred Van Hove and Conny Bauer... I'd imagine Brotzmann and Waits to be very good - saw that duo maybe three years ago and it was hot then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 EKE, I have no Vision when trying to link to the site you posted. All I get is a 'Mensaje de error de!' message ← brownie: you´ll need to have a Yahoo account and probably to register to jazz_sp group. ← looks like yahoo.sp is not accepting my yahoo.fr registration I give up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted June 29, 2005 Report Share Posted June 29, 2005 I´ve asked Roberto Barahona to see if he allows me to post some of his photos here. Looks like those appearing at his website, Puro Jazz, are not from this year´s festival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 This came across from Margaret Davis: "The Village Voice," June 29th-July 5th, 'O5 "The Sound of the City" At a converted synagogue downtown, the faithful are rewarded VISION FESTIVAL Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts June 14 through 19 DELIVERANCE by Larry Blumenfeld A sound man desperately tried to signal the set's end, but WARM -- an elder-statesmen quartet comprising bassist Reggie Workman, drummer Pheeroan akLaff, and saxophonists Sam Rivers and Roscoe Mitchell -- paid no attention. They were lost in a glorious balladic tune, transported to some delicate, unbound space. And the crowd that packed the Angel Orensanz Center was right with them, never mind the time. It was an inspiring Tuesday-night start to the 1Oth annual Vision Festival, as fine and focused a celebration of free-jazz improvisation as we have, and an event full of heroic hook-ups that regularly transcended limitation. Two such performances book-ended Thursday night, which honored Chicago-based tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, who is admired for his subtle mixture of lyrical swagger and post-bop invention and for providing two generations of musciians with a place to play: his venerable South Side club the Velvet Lounge. Opening was the Fred Anderson 196O's Quartet, which reconnected Anderson with homeboys Joseph Jarman on saxophone and flute and Alvin Fielder on drums and included Chicagoan Tatsu Aoki on bass. Anderson, who stoops over when playing, holding his horn close to the floor, began by blowing gentle figures that gradually gained more volume and complexity. Jarman, on alto, added precise harmonics that created subtle halos around the tenor lines. When Jarman switched to bass flute, he played Asian-sounding flutters, with Anderson adding softly phrased lines that extended into long tendrils of be-bop expression. The rhythm section stuck for the most part to a reactive rumble, calibrated throughout to the tone and energy of the horns. Later, Anderson was joined by fellow tenor saxophonist and septuagenarian Kidd Jordan from New Orleans for a quartet that included Chicagoan Hamid Drake on drums and bassist William Parker, a ubiquitous presence throughout the festival. Jordan, who has a peculiarly beautiful style of producing squirrely squeals from his horn, stooped down to match Anderson's characteristic posture as he did so. Anderson reached into the upper registers of his horn's overtones to match Kidd's pitch. Parker worked his way in with strong undergirding lines that also lent potent melodic suggestion. Drake joined in with a brief bombast, which settled quickly into an insistent swing, and they were off on a riveting display of brute force blended with tender beauty, the two tenors issuing lines that flapped like ribbons in the wind, tethered to the flagpole of Parker and Drake's groove. ... [Edited out for the moment: material on other groups who played] ... All this was nearly enough to make you forget that the JVC Festival was simultaneously under way at concert halls uptown. Underneath the peeling paint that adds flecked beauty to the Orensanz, originally one of the first synagogues on the lower East Side, the Vision Festival faithful were presented with a still-vital aesthetic that needs no corporate sponsorship, answering instead to a higher authority. #### This article is not up on the Web yet; I've transcribed it into the computer from the print version of the newspaper. I'll provide a link as soon as there is one so you can read the complete version. There's a great photo of Henry Grimes in the print version, too (though photos sometimes don't appear in the Web version). Blessings on Larry Blumenfeld, the rarest of New York press persons who can hear, feel, express, and celebrate the holy, rapt, devout, profoundly religious communal experience that is the Vision Festival. Will someone please print this out and give it to Fred? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 I see Brownie already had this up...I'll send Margaret the link.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Under his permission, I will post a few photos that Roberto Barahona (see his website Puro Jazz ) took in the Vision Jazz Festival 2005. He will be posting many more in his FTP soon. Peter Brotzmann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Eddie Gale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted June 30, 2005 Report Share Posted June 30, 2005 Fred Anderson / K. Jordan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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