Vision Festival XII

[Frisco]

The dates for the 2007 Vision Festival (XII) were recently announced.
June 19-24 @ Orensanz. I've not heard anything about a lineup except that Lotte Anker will be playing with Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver as part of a tour.

[ericdevin]

Bill Dixon will apparently be the featured artist, according to a call for advertisements for the brochure.

Eric

[ericdevin]

June 23rd - Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone
@ The Vision Festival
www.visionfestival.org

I am pretty excited already, honestly. This duo is fantastic and Bill Dixon is one of my favorites. I also hope that a Little Huey gig is in the offing. They haven't played stateside since 2005's festival appearance, if I recall.

Eric

[ericdevin]

The schedule is approaching finality and it looks very good. I can't reveal anything, but I think folks should be pleasantly surprised. The schedule will be out next week.

Eric

[bernard lyons]

Originally Posted by Frisco

The dates for the 2007 Vision Festival (XII) were recently announced.
June 19-24 @ Orensanz. I've not heard anything about a lineup except that Lotte Anker will be playing with Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver as part of a tour.

They will be at An die Musik in Baltimore on June 16

[Pete C]

Highlights for the 2007 Vision Festival include newly commissioned works by William Parker, Bill Dixon, Roy Campbell (commissioned by Arts for Art with support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) and Nicole Mitchell (commissioned by Chamber Music America), an evening tribute to Bill Dixon and a special memorial for Leroy Jenkins. Other highlights include Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity, Jayne Cortez FireSpitters, Matthew Shipp solo, Fred Anderson Trio, Vijay Iyer, Eddie Gale All Stars, Amiri Baraka, T.E.C.K. String Quartet, Hamid Drake, Louis Moholo Quartet and more. The full schedule will be released next week.

[Pete C]

Any JC out-of-towners coming this year?

[shrugs]

I might show up only for the opening incantation....

[steve(thelil)]

Originally Posted by Frisco

The dates for the 2007 Vision Festival (XII) were recently announced.
June 19-24 @ Orensanz. I've not heard anything about a lineup except that Lotte Anker will be playing with Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver as part of a tour.

Gerald Cleaver will also be performing with Beaver and Eldridge Cleaver as
"the Cleavers".

[Gerardo A]

Originally Posted by Pete C

Any JC out-of-towners coming this year?

I'd love to see Moholo, Fred Anderson, Eddie Gale and the Dixon tribute. But June will suck for me since in July a new governor comes to office here in the Yucatan, and me and my lawyer coworkers could lose our jobs or be transferred. So it's not a good idea to take vacations on June...

Things may change, though. Enjoy, everyone!

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Gerardo Alejos

and me and my lawyer coworkers could lose our jobs or be transferred.

If you're transferred to Puebla state (especially Coatzingo or Tulcingo del Valle) you're half way to Brooklyn.

[Gerardo A]

Hehehe

[Gary Sisco]

I wish I could say yes, Pete. I could really use an urban hit and some time off.

[walto]

I'd like to know whether the Taborn group's tour will make it up this way....

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Gary Sisco

I wish I could say yes, Pete. I could really use an urban hit and some time off.

Is that a no or a maybe?

[ericdevin]

I'll be there. BTW, that Anker/Taborn/Cleaver group is not on the schedule. Don't know where that info came from...

[Frisco]

Originally Posted by ericdevin

I'll be there. BTW, that Anker/Taborn/Cleaver group is not on the schedule. Don't know where that info came from...

Came from me, via the band a few months back. Apparently it didn;t work out. But I'd be much hipper to the facts if I lived in Eugene

[walto]

Too bad, that group was the only real draw for me....

[Gary Sisco]

Pete, that would be a no. We're on thin ice, indeed, financially. We'll be doing well if we get of here with our shirts and enough bread for a smaller place. There's no wiggle room in the check book at all. I haven't been buying any records or going out, or anything like that, since early last September.

I'd love to but it's just not in the picture.

[relyles]

Every year for the past few years I have told myself that I am going to make an effort to get down for at least one night. This year is no exception. When the full schedule is announced I will take a look and see whether any night will be worth the effort of coordinating the logistics to get down. Preferably, one of the weekend nights will be strong and there will be less reason for me not to get down.

[ericdevin]

Originally Posted by Frisco

Came from me, via the band a few months back. Apparently it didn;t work out. But I'd be much hipper to the facts if I lived in Eugene

Pat-

If only. The only things we've had here in Eugene this year in the realm of the Vision Fetival were an Amiri Baraka + David Murray duo, Wayne Horvitz' Sweeter Than The Day and a Nate Wooley performance that was only fifteen minutes long and the day before Baraka/Murray. Jazz writ large is OK; Dave Holland, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron and Bill Frisell have all been through, but this part of the country is pretty dry as far as the more out stuff goes. I will be in NYC next week to see Joe McPhee and Roy Campbell, Jr.'s TAZZ at the Stone, should be pretty good.

Eric

[Frisco]

Originally Posted by ericdevin

I will be in NYC next week to see Joe McPhee and Roy Campbell, Jr.'s TAZZ at the Stone, should be pretty good.

Oh man, I'll be in Thurs. thru Sunday! I'll PM you.

[Pete C]

The website still says the schedule will be released "next week." Like a stopped clock, that statement will eventually have been true.

[Lore]

fwd:

What: Vision Festival XII
A Dozen Years Of Visionary Music, Dance, Spoken Word, Film And Visual Art

Date: Tuesday, June 19 through Sunday, June 24, 2007

Time: Tuesday – Saturday 7pm; Thursday 6pm; Sunday 5pm
plus a Saturday afternoon session starting at 2pm on June 23!

Place: Angel Orensanz Foundation
172 Norfolk Street, New York, NY

Tickets: $30 per night in advance / $35 day of show / $150 for 6 night pass
on sale April 5 at http://www.BrownPaperTickets.com or 800.838.3006

More Info: http://www.visionfestival.org or 212.696.6681


Vision Festival XII Schedule

Tuesday June 19
Poet/Host Lewis Barnes

7:00 Opening Invocation
Patricia Nicholson / William Parker / Hamid Drake

7:30 William Parker – “Double Sunrise Over Neptune” – World Premiere
Lewis Barnes trumpet / Rob Brown alto saxophone / Sabir Mateen reeds
Bill Cole double reeds / Joe Morris guitar, banjo / Jason Kao Hwang violin
Mazz Swift violin / Jessica Pavone viola / Shiau-Shu Yu cello / Brahim Fribgane oud / William Parker bass / Shayna Dulberger bass / Hamid Drake drums / Gerald Cleaver drums

8:30 Fieldwork
Steve Lehman saxophones, compositions / Vijay Iyer piano, compositions
Tyshawn Sorey drums, compositions

9:30 The Keyboard Project: Cooper-Moore Quartet with Marlies Yearby
Darius Jones alto saxophone / Cooper-Moore keyboards
Nioka Workman cello / Chad Taylor drums / Marlies Yearby dance

10:30 Spiritual Unity featuring Marc Ribot (with special guest Henry Grimes)
Roy Campbell trumpet / Marc Ribot guitar
Henry Grimes bass / Chad Taylor drums


Wednesday June 20 – Bill Dixon Lifetime Recognition
Poet/Host Barry Wallenstein

7:00 Barry Wallenstein and Friends
Barry Wallenstein vocals, poetry / Daniel Carter reeds, trumpet / special guests TBA

7:30 Bill Dixon with the Sound Vision Orchestra – World Premiere
Bill Dixon trumpet, compositions
Graham Haynes trumpet / Stephen Haynes trumpet / Taylor Ho Bynum cornet
Dick Griffin trombone / Steve Swell trombone / Joe Daley tuba
Andrew Raffo Dewar soprano saxophone / Michel Cote reeds / J.D. Parran reeds
Will Connell, Jr. reeds / John Hagen reeds / Karen Borca bassoon
Glynis Lomon cello / Andrew Lafkas double bass
Warren Smith vibraphone, percussion / Jackson Krall percussion

9:30 Co-Pilots: Henry Grimes and Marilyn Crispell
Henry Grimes bass / Marilyn Crispell piano

10:30 Survival Unit III
Joe McPhee reeds, flügelhorn / Fred Lonberg-Holm cello
Michael Zerang drums

Thursday June 21
Poet/Host Alexandre Pierrepont

6:00 New York – Paris Poetry
Tribes, New York
Miguel Algarin, Steve Cannon, Steve Dalachinsky, Post Midnight, Ishle Park
The Weavers, Paris
Thomas Gilson, Mathias Gross, Alexandre Pierrepont, Laurence Pierrepont, Daniel Vassaux

7:30 Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble – Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler
David Young trumpet / Nicole Mitchell flute / David Boykin reeds
Justin Dillard piano / Tomeka Reid cello / Josh Abrams bass
Arveeayl Ra drums / Marcus Evans drums / Mankwe Ndosi vocals

8:30 Hardcell
Tim Berne alto saxophone / Craig Taborn piano / Tom Rainey drums

9:30 Local Lingo
Jason Kao Hwang violin, viola, compositions / Sang Won Park ajang, kayagum, voice

10:30 Jayne Cortez and The Firespitters
Jayne Cortez poetry / Bern Nix guitar / special guests TBA
Al MacDowell bass / Denardo Coleman drums

Friday June 22
Poet/Host David Budbill

5:30 Panel Discussion Part I – Art in America: A Grassroots Struggle

7:00 50 Violins for Leroy Jenkins
Memorial tribute led by Billy Bang, coordinated by Jason Kao Hwang

7:30 Matthew Shipp Solo Piano

8:30 Roy Campbell’s Ahkenaten Suite – World Premiere
Roy Campbell trumpet / Billy Bang violin / Bryan Carrott vibraharp
Hilliard Greene bass / Zen Matsuura drums

9:30 Dance/Music/Art Installation “A State of Mind” by Patricia Nicholson
Dance: Miriam Parker, Julia Wilkins, Gus Solomons, jr
Music: Lewis Barnes, Rob Brown, William Parker, Hamid Drake
Artists: Jo Wood Brown, Katie Martin, Kazuko Miyamoto, Phyllis Bulkin-Lehrer, Lili White

10:15 Fred Anderson Trio
Fred Anderson tenor saxophone / Harrison Bankhead bass
Hamid Drake drums

11:15 Spindrift for Leroy Jenkins
Myra Melford piano, melodica / Mark Taylor French horn
Brandon Ross guitars / Shuni Tsou di-zi

Saturday Afternoon June 23

2:00 Michael Bisio Quartet
Stephen Gauci winds / Avram Fefer winds
Michael Bisio bass / Jay Rosen percussion

3:00 SYNERGY Sight and Sound
Amir Bey costumes, set design / Saco Yasuma alto saxophone, compositions
Ras Moshe reeds / Dave Ross guitar / Christopher Dean Sullivan bass / Lou Grassi drums

4:00 Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone
Mary Halvorson guitar, vocals / Jessica Pavone viola, vocals

5:00 Corey Wilkes Quintet
Corey Wilkes trumpet, flügelhorn, vocals / Kevin Nabors tenor saxophone
Junuis Paul bass / Isaiah Spencer drums / Jumaane Taylor dance


Saturday Night June 23
Poet/Host David Budbill

7:30 Ganelin Trio Priority
Vyacheslav Ganelin piano, synthesizer, percussion / Petras Vysniauskas soprano sax
Klaus Kugel drums, percussion

8:30 Eddie Gale All-Star Band
Eddie Gale trumpet / Prince Lasha reeds / Kidd Jordan tenor saxophone
Valerie Mih piano / William Parker bass / Alvin Fielder drums / Patricia Nicholson dance

9:30 Rob Brown Quartet
Rob Brown alto saxophone / Lewis Barnes trumpet
Todd Nicholson bass / Guillermo E. Brown drums

10:30 Whit Dickey Trio
Sabir Mateen reeds / Todd Nicholson bass / Whit Dickey drums

11:30 Amiri and Amina Baraka’s Blue Ark
Amiri Baraka poetry / Amini Baraka poetry, vocals
Dwight West vocals / Rene McLean reeds / Adegoke Steve Colson piano
Curtis Lundy bass / Pheeroan akLaff drums

Sunday June 24
Poet/Host Alexandre Pierrepont

3:30 Panel Discussion Part II – What Is “Serious” Music or Art?

5:00 T.E.C.K. String 4tet
Tomas Ulrich cello / Elliott Sharp acoustic guitars
Carlos Zingaro violin / Ken Filiano double bass

6:00 Hamid Drake now
Hamid Drake drums / Paolo Angeli prepared guitar
Sabir Mateen reeds / Patricia Nicholson dance

7:00 Thomas Buckner Trio
Thomas Buckner vocals / Jerome Bourdellon flute / Roscoe Mitchell reeds

8:00 Daniel Levin Quartet
Daniel Levin cello / Nate Wooley trumpet / Joe Morris bass / Matt Moran vibraphone

9:00 Louis Moholo and Friends
Kidd Jordan tenor saxophone / Dave Burrell piano
William Parker bass / Louis Moholo drums


Visual Art at The Vision Festival
A State of Mind
Dialogue Amongst the Arts

Amir Bey – installation
Jo Wood Brown – installation
Kazuko Miyamoto – installation
Yuko Otomo – installation
Maura Sheehan – installation
Cassie Thornton – installation

Bill Mazza – live drawings
Jorgo Schaefer – live drawings
Jeff Schlanger – live drawings

Bill Dixon – painting
Robin Kahn – painting

Phyllis Bulkin Lehrer - video
Katy Martin – video
Lili White – video

Peter Gannushkin – photographer
Luciano Rossetti – photographer
Michael Wilderman – photographer

[Frisco]

Originally Posted by Lore

5:00 T.E.C.K. String 4tet
Tomas Ulrich cello / Elliott Sharp acoustic guitars
Carlos Zingaro violin / Ken Filiano double bass

Carlos Zingaro! I think I may come in for this Vision thing. Anybody else worth hearing

[Gerardo A]

Ganelin! Damn. Really wish I could make it.

[Jon Abbey]

that's not really the Ganelin Trio per se, it's Ganelin with two different musicians.

[Gerardo A]

Oops, that's what I meant. Edited post accordingly.

[Jon Abbey]

$30 per night

[Jon Abbey]

sorry, $30 per night in advance, $35 on the day of the show, $150 for a six night pass.