Vision Fest 2005

[Uli]

I'm too poor to improvise my travel plans, particularly when I'm also trying to hook up with friends who rarely come East. But it is still very early.

You can always make hotel reservations etc now and later change them, transportation can wait a bit. Some may change on the program, but I don't think everything will change.

[bluenoter]

You can always make hotel reservations etc now and later change them, transportation can wait a bit.

True. I guess it's just an area in which I don't like to improvise. I seem to end up having to improvise a lot when I'm in the big city as it is.

My big act last summer was "Getting back home (in DC) despite having no bus ticket, money, 'plastic,' checkbook, or ID."

P.S.--Or keys to my apartment. They wouldn't let me in until business hours the next day. I had to spend the night at a friend's place.

[Uli]

My big act last summer was "Getting back home (in DC) despite having no bus ticket, money, or ID." [/b]

Yeah that's a bit much. Glad you made it though.

[bluenoter]

Yeah that's a bit much. Glad you made it though.

Thanks, Uli. Thank G-d, it was the same bus driver who had carried me to NYC, and he remembered me and my round-trip ticket.

[walto]

That beats my losing both my cell phone and my address book during my last trip there....

[bluenoter]

That beats my losing both my cell phone and my address book during my last trip there....

That's bad enough.
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A schedule is now up at the Vision fest's site:

http://www.visionfestival.org/vfx.asp

[Steve Reynolds]

Uli-


you saving your dollars to be there for the 16th for the Fred Anderson tribute?

I would really love to see you be able to make it

[Uli]

Unfortunately, there is absoultely no way that I can make it, Steve.

[Pete C]

Outside of the Anderson night there are only 4 sets I'd really like to catch, and they're spread over 4 nights. There's nothing on the Friday bill that interests me in particular.

I don't want to miss

WARM: Reggie Workman, Pheroan akLaff, Sam Rivers, Roscoe Mitchell

[Frisco]

Yeah, the Dunmall, Lewis, and Evan Parker deletions are disappointing, but hey, it still l9ooks like a great lineup for the most part. I'll be there, of course, barring any unforeseen complications. June in NYC!!

[bluenoter]

I don't want to miss

WARM: Reggie Workman, Pheroan akLaff, Sam Rivers, Roscoe Mitchell

Ditto. Don't know whether I can be there then, though.

[Steve Reynolds]

I don't want to miss that either, Pete

however, depending on my job/financial situation - If I can only make 2 mights it will be the 16th and the 19th

if I can make two other nights, it will be the 14th and the 18th

[Steve Reynolds]

looking forward more than anything to seeing Fred Anderson with the classic free quartet with Kidd, William & Hamid

now for me, this will bring back some memories - as long as they don't do the two tenor encore - remember, Pete?

and then with Joseph Jarman, Al Fielder and the *great* Harrison Bankhead on the bass


some of us will be dancing during and after those two sets

[Pete C]

and then with Joseph Jarman, Al Fielder and the *great* Harrison Bankhead on the bass

I'm looking forward to that set a *bit* more than the one with Jordan.

[achilles]

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I don't want to miss

WARM: Reggie Workman, Pheroan akLaff, Sam Rivers, Roscoe Mitchell

that's the one this California boy is coming in to catch.

[Uli]

[QUOTE=Steve Reynolds and the *great* Harrison Bankhead on the bass

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plus you gonna hear Nikki Mitchell and Isaiah Spencer with Harrison.

and Thurman Barker's Strike Force!

[Steve Reynolds]

looking forward to hearing those two new names to me - what instruments do they play, Uli?

also very much looking forward to hearing Warren Smith live for the first time as well as getting another chance to hear another great one for the second time, Mr. Douglas Ewart.....

[Frisco]

plus you gonna hear Nikki Mitchell and Isaiah Spencer with Harrison.
and Thurman Barker's Strike Force!

Looks like Thurman's group is an all percussion unit? I remember some great sets that he did on marimba in the mid 90's Cecil Taylor Units along with Rashid Bakr.

[Pete C]

that's the one this California boy is coming in to catch.

Adam, are you aware that the JCV festival will be concurrent this year? June 13-25. Schedule isn't out, but Carnegie events are listed at the Carnegie Hall website. Friday June 17 is a Wayne Shorter/Dave Holland double bill.

[achilles]

Adam, are you aware that the JCV festival will be concurrent this year? June 13-25. Schedule isn't out, but Carnegie events are listed at the Carnegie Hall website. Friday June 17 is a Wayne Shorter/Dave Holland double bill.

Pete, I didn't know this! oy vey! I'm supposed to be in NY visiting family and now I have to figure out ways to ditch them every evening. Thanks for the tip--is Holland playing with his big band on that bill? I saw them perform the new record's material when they played at Monterey a few years back--I loved it. Haven't heard the new record yet, but live it was dynamic stuff.

[Captain Hate]

Yeah, the Dunmall, Lewis, and Evan Parker deletions are disappointing,

Once again the fuck god is conspiring against me but I'm still gonna try to make it from the Fred-fest through Yells at Eels.

[Uli]

looking forward to hearing those two new names to me - what instruments do they play, Uli?

Steve,
Isaiah Spencer is a young drummer. He plays with Dawkins New Horizon's, with Fred and the young cats like Corey Wilkes and Greg Ward etc a lot.

Nicole Mitchell is a flautist.

[Steve Reynolds]

thanks, Uli

[Gary Sisco]

You're in for a real treat if you've never heard Warren Smith live before, Reynolds. He's one of the too-long neglected great drummers of jazz. He can and has played every variety of the music that there is, and done with so with huge talent. *and* he's a vibes master as well.

Past couple of years while you were down, he was the drummer of choice, as Drake has been busy enough -- congrats, finally, to our man! -- as to not be able to take the calls, many times.

[Frisco]

You're in for a real treat if you've never heard Warren Smith live before, Reynolds. He's one of the too-long neglected great drummers of jazz. He can and has played every variety of the music that there is, and done with so with huge talent. *and* he's a vibes master as well.

I'll second that, Gary. I think that we've mentioned it here before. Warren is one of the masters. Great free, creative percussion, with plenty of soul, rhythm, and a history in the jazz tradition. One of those guys who you can't say plays "in" or plays "out". He just plays like Warren Smith.

[Frisco]

The start times for all of the Vision sets have been posted on the site. They'll be using two stages, the Flamboyan and Milagro Theatres. Looks like some overlapping sets, though in many cases it looks as if it's planned for one to start directly after another ends.

One problem I see may be the Thurman Barker (scheduled for 10:00) and Fred Anderson (10:30) sets overlapping. Also, on Friday, Other Dimensions/Sound Visions (7:30) and Whit Dickey/Rob Brown (8:10), Bill Dixon (8:45). Nice prblems to have though.

[Pete C]

I just took a look at the schedule. Based on the fact that most of the acts I want to see are at the end of the night, and I have to get to a job the following morning, it looks like Fred Thursday is the only night I'll make.

[Steve Reynolds]

if possible, I will also be there on the 14th and or the 15th

16th and the 19th are definates

[Gary Sisco]

shit

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Just noticed that the Vision Fest has a new venue. Sounds a bit better than that school gym with the uncomfortable folding chairs.......