musicmargaret Posted March 25, 2009 Report Posted March 25, 2009 Vision Festival XIV, June 9th-15th, NYC http://www.visionfestival.org [nothing up yet] info@visionfestival.org The Vision Festival locations this year will be Abrons Arts Center (part of Henry St. Settlement) from Tuesday, June 9th through Sunday, June 14th, 466 Grand St. (betw. Pitt & Willet St's), Manhattan, http://www.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer...name=abt_dirAAC, info@henrystreet.org; plus Monday, June 15th, closing day, at Angel Orensanz Center, 172 Norfolk St. just below Houston St. & just east of Ave. A, http://www.orensanz.org, info@orensanz.org. Day 1: Tuesday, June 9th All on the Main Stage Host Lewis Barnes 7:30 Opening Invocation: Hamid Drake/ Patricia Nicholson/ William Parker 8:15 Brass Bang Billy Bang - violin Ted Daniel – trumpet James Zollar – trumpet Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet Dick Griffin - trombone Russell Carter – drums 9:15 Douglas R. Ewart and Inventions “Dawn” featuring Shaku Joseph Jarman - flute, sax, poetry Douglas R. Ewart - winds, percussion, voice J.D. Parran - flute, clarinets and bass sax Donald Smith – piano Thurman Barker - drums and vibes 10:15 "Vision of New York" video by Luciano Rossetti 10:30 Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris Conducts A Chorus Of Poets and String Ensemble “Conduction® No. 187, Erotic Eulogy” Chorus of Poets: Yasha Bilan, Mark Gerring, Chavisa Woods, Nora McCarthy, Justin Carter, Alex Bilu, Helga Davis, David Devoe String of Ensemble: Nicole Federici, Jason Kao Hwang - viola Shawn McGloin, Jane Wang - bass Skye Steele, Charlie Burnham - violin Greg Heffernan, Alisa Horn - cello Text by Allan Graubard Day 2: Wednesday, June 10th All on the Main Stage Marshall Allen – A Lifetime of Achievement Host Steve Dalachinsky 7:30 Special Set Marshall Allen - reeds Kidd Jordan - tenor sax William Parker - bass Henry Grimes - bass and violin Hamid Drake - drums 8:30 Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble Bill Cole - double reeds Joe Daley - tuba Shayna Dulberger - bass Warren Smith - drums Atticus Cole - percussion Althea SullyCole - vocals 9:30 The Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen Marshall Allen - alto, EVI, flute, clarinet, vocals Knoel Scott - alto, vocals Charles Davis - tenor sax Yahya Abdul-Majid- tenor sax Danny Thompson - baritone sax Rey Scott- baritone sax Fred Adams - trunpet Cecil Brooks - trumpet Dave Davis-trombone Dick Griffin - trombone Bill Davis - tuba Dave Hotep - guitar Farid Barron-piano and organ Wayne A. Smith Jr.-drums Elson Nascimento - surdo special guests Billy Bang – violin and John Ore - bass Day 3: Thursday, June 11th - on the Main Stage Host James Keepnews 7:00 Yvonne Meier’s Score Yvonne Meier – choreography and dance Christopher Williams - dance Gabi Glinz - dance Arturo Vidich - dance Mystery Guest - dance Michael Jaeger – tenor sax Dave Gisler – guitar Christian Jaeger-Brown – drums/percussion 8:30 William Hooker’s Silent Film/Live Music Project “Symbol of the Unconquered” film by Oscar Micheaux William Hooker - drums Adam Lane - bass Darius Jones – sax 9:30 Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble Ernest Dawkins – sax, clarinet, flute Stephen Berry - trombone Darius Savage - bass Isaiah Spencer - drums 10:30 Sunny Murray Quartet Odean Pope - sax Sabir Mateen - sax and flute Lee Smith - bass Sunny Murray - drums Day 3: Thursday - in the Experimental Theater 7:45 David Budbill / Hamid Drake / William Parker ‘The Fire of Compassion / Meaning of Jazz’ in words and music. David Budbill – words William Parker – bass, donso N’goni Hamid Drake - drums 9:15 Video Installation by Lili White Day 4: Friday, June 12th- on the Main Stage Host David Budbill 7:00 Miriam Parker - dance Jason Kao Hwang – violin Joseph Daley - tuba 7:30 Charles Gayle Trio Charles Gayle - sax Lisle Ellis - bass Michael Wimberly - drums 8:45 "The Ras Ensemble" Ras Moshe – tenor sax & flute Matt Lavelle – trumpet Dave Ross - guitar Shayna Dulberger - bass Charles Downs - drums 10:00 Ayler Project Roy Campbell - trumpet Joe McPhee – sax and trumpet William Parker - bass Warren Smith - drums 11:00 Collective Quartet featuring Zim Ngqawana - sax Matthew Shipp - piano William Parker - bass Nasheet Waits – drums Day 4: Friday, June 12th - in the Experimental Theater 5:00 Panel Discussion – FREE Establishing Rights / Meeting Needs / Building Community in the Arts 8:15 Reaching into the Unknown – w/ special musical guests A Rogue Art Book Release - Steve Dalachinsky, poet / Jacques Bisceglia, photography / guest appearances by great musicians 9:30 Video, Jo Wood Brown As The Crow Flies - Rob Brown live music Day 5: Saturday Afternoon, June 13th - on the Main Stage Host James Keepnews 2:00 Seth Meicht’s Big Sound Ensemble Matt Bauder, alto saxophone Seth Meicht, tenor saxophone Charlie Evans, baritone saxophone Aaron Meicht, trumpet Steve Swell, trombone Adam Lane, bass Mike Pride, drums 3:00 Bear and Eagle Catherine Sikora – saxophone Jeremy Bacon - piano 4:00 Chaedria LaBouvier poet 4:30 Darius Jones Trio Darius Jones - sax Cooper-Moore – piano, diddley bow Bob Moses – drums Day 5: Saturday Afternoon, June 13th - in the Experimental Theater 5:30 Panel discussion – FREE Art and Politics past, present, future Day 5: Saturday Evening, June 13th - on the Main Stage host Julia Wilkins 7:00 Matthew Shipp – solo piano 8:00 Rob Brown Trio Rob Brown - sax Craig Taborn - piano Nasheet Waits - drums 9:00 Milford Graves Quartet Milford Graves - drums Langford Grant - sax DD Jackson - piano William Parker – bass 10:15 Lisa Sokolov Trio Lisa Sokolov – voice, piano Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez – cello Cameron Brown - bass 11:15 Joe Morris GoGo Mambo Joe Morris - bass Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng - percussion Jim Hobbs - alto saxophone Timo Shanko - tenor saxothone Luther Gray - drums Steve Lantner - piano Bill Lowe - trombone Joe Moffett - trumpet Forbes Graham - trumpet Willie Martinez - percussion Day 5: Saturday Evening, in the Experimental Theater 9:45 Henry Grimes Solo – poetry & violin & bass 10:45 Paul Harding, spoken music featuring Hill Greene on bass Day 6: Sunday Afternoon, June 14th - on the Main Stage Host Patricia Nicholson 1:00PS 182Q (Jamaica, Queens) K-2 Recorder & Percussion Ensemble Steve Swell & Michael T.A. Thompson – orchestra directors 1:30 Achievement First Bushwick Middle School Orchestra Daniel Levin – director 2:00 Brooklyn Friends School Jazz Band All-Stars Jessica Jones – director 2:30 York College Blue Notes (HS Big Band) Tom Zlabinger – director 3:30 Panel discussion – FREE Innovative Music in our Schools Day 6: Sunday, June 14th - on the Main Stage Host Lewis Barnes 5:00 Planet Dream Steve Swell – trombone Rob Brown - drums Daniel Levin – cello 6:00 Fred Anderson Trio Fred Anderson - sax William Parker – bass Hamid Drake - drums 7:15 Michele Rosewoman and Quintessence plus Guests Michele Rosewoman - piano, keyboards Brad Jones - acoustic, electric bass Tyshawn Sorey - drums Loren Stillman - alto, soprano saxophones Jacob Yoffee - tenor saxophone Guests: Vincent Gardner - trombone Richard Padron - guitar 8:15 Carter/Dickey/Yamamoto Whit Dickey - drums Eri Yamomoto – piano Daniel Carter – saxes, trumpet, clarinet, flute 9:00 FULL BLAST Peter Brötzmann – sax Marino Pliakas – elec. bass Michael Wertmüller – drums Sunday Evening, in the Experimental Theater 6:45 Patricia Spears Jones, words / Jason Kao Hwang, violin 8:00 Bill Brand short film / TBA live music Day 7: Monday, June 15th at the Angel Orensanz Foundation 172 Norfolk Street near Houston Celebrating the Art and Sculpture of Angel Orensanz Bringing together Sound, Sculpture, Movement, Color A Collaboration between Angel Orensanz Foundation and Arts for Art All within the context of the artwork - projections and sculpture of Angel Orensanz 7:00 Jason Kao Hwang’s Spontaneous River 25 + String Ensemble 8:00 Trio X Joe McPhee – sax and trumpet Dominic Duval – bass Jay Rosen - drums 9:00 Patricia Nicholson – dance Miriam Parker – dance Mariko Kumanomido – dance Jason Jordan - dance Cooper-Moore – hand-crafted instruments Jason Kao Hwang - violin William Parker - bass 9:30 William Parker Quartet + surprise William Parker - bass Rob Brown - sax Lewis Barnes - trumpet Hamid Drake – drums, percussion + Special Guest Tickets: $25/night advance $30/night at the door $20/night students, seniors and members $150 for 7 night pass (this includes June 15 performance) Advance tickets for Abrons Art Center performances are available at (212) 598-0400 or online at http://www.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer...ACHOME_homepage. Tickets for the Angel Orensanz performances can only be purchased at the door on June 15. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted March 25, 2009 Report Posted March 25, 2009 Thanks for the listing Margaret. Sorry I missed you in Chicago. Arrived late on Sunday and couldn't get in. Had a couple of good days in the Delmark studio and Steve gave me a full report. I hope some of Henry's performance can be included. Quote
robviti Posted May 20, 2009 Report Posted May 20, 2009 i've been looking forward to attending this year's vision fest for months now. incredible lineup, especially since i've never seen charles gayle, marshall allen, sunny murray, odean pope, and several others on the schedule. who else is going? enough for a mini-o hang in the big apple? Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted June 1, 2009 Report Posted June 1, 2009 I will try to make the second June 10th. Kidd Jordan and Henry Grimes. I can't miss this. Quote
relyles Posted June 1, 2009 Report Posted June 1, 2009 I am going to try to get down for at least one day. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 1, 2009 Report Posted June 1, 2009 I am going to try to get down for at least one day. Relyles, I hope you 'get down' every day! Quote
musicmargaret Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Posted June 2, 2009 Hi, "hardbopjazz." Henry Grimes and Kidd Jordan have actually played together several times before, including August 3Oth and 31st, 'O8 at Fred Anderson's great Velvet Lounge (Chicago Jazz Festival after-fest sets), and again at the Velvet Lounge this past March for Fred's 8Oth-birthday concert series celebrations (and supposedly Delmark is considering releasing some of the concerts from Fred's birthday night, including the set with Kidd and Henry), and in Montreal in a group led by Henry in June, 'O4, and in a Vision Festival benefit for Katrina victims in New Orleans that took place in New York in September, 'O5. And of course Henry hopes to play much more music with Kidd Jordan in the future. Kidd is a supreme master musician and being! Henry's giving some more amazing concerts in June, and I suppose I should post those somewhere else, so I guess I'll put that information here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...hl=Henry+Grimes. You can also always visit Henry's site, http://www.henrygrimes.com. Thanks for your interest! Margaret Davis Grimes musicmargaret@earthlink.net I'm attaching a small photo of Henry playing his violin in the Bang on a Can Marathon just yesterday. It was taken by Vic Offray: Quote
Guest youmustbe Posted June 2, 2009 Report Posted June 2, 2009 The future of jazz is assured since almost everybody perfoming at this festival is under 30. Can hardly wait for the videos on MTV! Quote
musicmargaret Posted June 3, 2009 Author Report Posted June 3, 2009 The future of jazz is assured since almost everybody perfoming at this festival is under 30. Can hardly wait for the videos on MTV! I assume your comment is sarcastic, but the future of jazz is indeed assured when the living masters of the music are heard as much as possible and revered and supported as much as possible while they are still among us. Some of them play younger music than any juveniles and continue to grow more and more youthful as the years go by. When they do go on ahead to the next life, they will leave a legacy of inspiration that will hearten and embolden the young ones coming up to fill the bandstands of the future. Meanwhile, the Vision Festival does indeed have a lot of musicians who are or may be younger than 3O, including (I'm not exactly sure of all their exact ages, so don't hold me to this list): Shayna Dulberger, Atticus Cole, Althea SullyCole, two or three members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Darius Jones, Darius Savage, Isaiah Spencer, Adam Lane, Tyshawn Sorey, Forbes Graham, Eri Yamamoto, and most of the students playing on Sunday afternoon. This is not to mention spoken-word people, people who dance, people who made things on display, and so forth, with whom I'm not familiar enough to say anything about their ages. Maybe someone else on this list can chip in about them. www.henrygrimes.com (at 72, Henry is one of the youngest of them all) musicmargaret@earthlink.net Quote
robviti Posted June 3, 2009 Report Posted June 3, 2009 very nicely put, margaret. looking forward to seeing you and henry again next week. Quote
papsrus Posted June 3, 2009 Report Posted June 3, 2009 A wonderful lineup. Makes me want to head up there Friday. What's the weather like? (Not that it matters) Quote
robviti Posted June 3, 2009 Report Posted June 3, 2009 What's the weather like? (Not that it matters) it's like, out, man. Quote
porter_esq Posted June 8, 2009 Report Posted June 8, 2009 Vision Festival XIV, June 9th-15th, NYC Saturday June 13 Day 5: Saturday Evening, in the Experimental Theater 9:45 Henry Grimes Solo – poetry & violin & bass 10:45 Paul Harding, spoken music featuring Hill Greene on bass Don't miss this show! Paul Harding has been the Obi-Wan of New Jazz Music in Seattle for an entire generation, and he just moved back to his hometown of Brooklyn. We love this guy. We miss this guy. He sat in with our trio Floss at the 2003 Earshot Jazz Festival. Video clip below: Quote
clifford_thornton Posted June 9, 2009 Report Posted June 9, 2009 Adam Lane is about 36, I think. Darius Jones, Forbes Graham, and Eri Yamamoto are from what I can tell, in their thirties as well. Quote
musicmargaret Posted June 9, 2009 Author Report Posted June 9, 2009 (edited) Adam Lane is about 36, I think. Darius Jones, Forbes Graham, and Eri Yamamoto are from what I can tell, in their thirties as well. As I wrote, "... the Vision Festival does indeed have a lot of musicians who are or may be younger than 3O, including (I'm not exactly sure of all their exact ages, so don't hold me to this list): Shayna Dulberger, Atticus Cole, Althea SullyCole, two or three members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Darius Jones, Darius Savage, Isaiah Spencer, Adam Lane, Tyshawn Sorey, Forbes Graham, Eri Yamamoto, and [several student bands] playing on Sunday afternoon. This is not to mention spoken-word people, people who dance, people who made things on display, and so forth, with whom I'm not familiar enough to say anything about their ages. Maybe someone else on this list can chip in about them." So... thanks for chipping in! As to earlier inquiries about the weather here in New York City, as of tonight it's cool and damp. You can get a week's forecast by going to http://weather.msn.com, entering the zip code 10002, and clicking "go." I'm pretty sure that whatever results you get will be wrong, though. This society may have produced some great scientific achievements, but accurate weather forecasting still seems beyond us. Edited June 9, 2009 by musicmargaret Quote
sheldonm Posted June 15, 2009 Report Posted June 15, 2009 Adam Lane is about 36, I think. Darius Jones, Forbes Graham, and Eri Yamamoto are from what I can tell, in their thirties as well. As I wrote, "... the Vision Festival does indeed have a lot of musicians who are or may be younger than 3O, including (I'm not exactly sure of all their exact ages, so don't hold me to this list): Shayna Dulberger, Atticus Cole, Althea SullyCole, two or three members of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Darius Jones, Darius Savage, Isaiah Spencer, Adam Lane, Tyshawn Sorey, Forbes Graham, Eri Yamamoto, and [several student bands] playing on Sunday afternoon. This is not to mention spoken-word people, people who dance, people who made things on display, and so forth, with whom I'm not familiar enough to say anything about their ages. Maybe someone else on this list can chip in about them." So... thanks for chipping in! As to earlier inquiries about the weather here in New York City, as of tonight it's cool and damp. You can get a week's forecast by going to http://weather.msn.com, entering the zip code 10002, and clicking "go." I'm pretty sure that whatever results you get will be wrong, though. This society may have produced some great scientific achievements, but accurate weather forecasting still seems beyond us. ...just got back from the festival....great time. It was damp much of the time I was there but not the end of the world. Got to spend some time with Margaret, Henry Grimes, Kidd Jordan, Fred Anderson, Douglas Ewart and others.....will try to post a few photos in the near future. m Quote
Chalupa Posted June 15, 2009 Report Posted June 15, 2009 Did anyone get to see Sunny Murray perform??? Quote
sheldonm Posted June 15, 2009 Report Posted June 15, 2009 Did anyone get to see Sunny Murray perform??? I did, it was pretty good through not great (to me) and very short...only about 35-40 minutes. Murray seemed to be lacking energy throughout the set (not sure of his age as I type this). Several patrons were pissed and started yelling out loud about it. Sunny came out to the mic and talked about being happy about getting the gig, shopping at flea markets and living in France and reminded us if we didn't like America, we could live there too....kinda strange. Odean Pope, who played with him was good. m Quote
Chalupa Posted June 15, 2009 Report Posted June 15, 2009 Did anyone get to see Sunny Murray perform??? I did, it was pretty good through not great (to me) and very short...only about 35-40 minutes. Murray seemed to be lacking energy throughout the set (not sure of his age as I type this). Several patrons were pissed and started yelling out loud about it. Sunny came out to the mic and talked about being happy about getting the gig, shopping at flea markets and living in France and reminded us if we didn't like America, we could live there too....kinda strange. Odean Pope, who played with him was good. m Thanks for your reply. I was wondering because I saw Odean and Sunny the next night here in Philly. Odean was great. Sunny was... well...... very erratic. Quote
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