Vision Festival 2009

[Pete C]

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
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

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/Page...CHOME_homepage

Tickets for the Angel Orensanz performances can only be purchased at the door on June 15.

[Pete C]

The Henry Street Settlement has to be an improvement over the last two spaces--I hope.

I'm going to aim for the Thursday show for Ernest Dawkins. Maybe Friday if there's a hang of any sort, but Saturday doesn't inspire me at all.

I'm assuming the following will be an hour of tender ballads:

7:30 Special Set
Marshall Allen - reeds
Kidd Jordan - tenor sax
William Parker - bass
Henry Grimes - bass
Hamid Drake - drums

[Root Doctor]

Originally Posted by Pete C

I'm going to aim for the Thursday show for Ernest Dawkins.

I'm thinking of hitting that one, too.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Root Doctor

I'm thinking of hitting that one, too.

'twould be great to see you.

[jazzy mary]

I'm so glad to see Nasheet is on a couple of the gigs. That cat is amazing, he can play anything and play it beautifully!!

[Gary Sisco]

I won't miss the dance.

Or the "words."

[JaSt]

Isaiah Spencer on the 11th would be interesting hear again!

[Frisco]

Originally Posted by Pete C

The Henry Street Settlement has to be an improvement over the last two spaces--I hope.

I'm going to aim for the Thursday show for Ernest Dawkins. Maybe Friday if there's a hang of any sort, but Saturday doesn't inspire me at all.

I'm assuming the following will be an hour of tender ballads:

7:30 Special Set
Marshall Allen - reeds
Kidd Jordan - tenor sax
William Parker - bass
Henry Grimes - bass
Hamid Drake - drums

An evening of Ballads from Saturn and Jupiter.

I probably won;t be able to get in til Thursday though I'd love to see Thurman Barker in the group on Tuesday. It's been a while!

Looking forward to quite a few sets but in particular, Thurman on Tues, The Sunny Murray set on Thursday, the Ayler Project on Friday and Rob Brown with Craig Taborn and Nasheet Waits on Saturday.

[Steve Reynolds]

I will be there for Sunday for Fred & Peter


will see if I can get Friday off work to go in for Ernest Dawkins and to see the *great* Sunny Murray live for the first time

[Gary Sisco]

I will miss watching Reynolds do The Bob.

[Scott Dolan]

Yeah, I'd love to catch that Murray set. That's a pretty smoking line-up.

Though, it truly breaks my heart that I'll have to miss Patricia Nicholson's "dancing".

[Steve Reynolds]

for June 14th I hope to bring a crowd - I hope to have a few who don't know experience Hamid Drake from close-up. A few dead heads and a few who think they know jazz but have never heard any of *these* guys!

for me, I could complain that the fest has few new faces - and few of the bright stars from my universe - but one day I will travel far to see those guys...

but - to see the last real blues tenorman from Chicago play one more time with The King of New York and the great drummer almost makes me cry for joy now....

don't know how he is playing at 80 - but I can picture how it is going to be when he walks up to the stage with those big old shoes and I really do believe it will all come together when he gets in the slouch and that *sound* comes out of his horn - the sound of the great Fred Anderson - something makes me think that a few might be crying and dancing in the ailes one more time - maybe, maybe like it was those years back when the trio was a quartet with Kidd.

and damn - I wish Ulrich could take a plane to New York - damn do I want to see you, my friend - no matter whatver ever has happened or has been said - naybe I think I might not havelived without this music when everything else was falling apart in those years,,,,

and my youg friend who loves Brotz - he can't believe he will see him - but what he really wants is to see the Tentet - but maybe that will happen again too....


and maybe I even come back on the 15th to see the quartet with Barnes and Brwon joing the seminal bass/drums tandem

[Lois Gilbert]

we're doing another JazzCorner/Vision hang after pary

give me a couple of dates of when you folks are thinking about a hang

Patricia is thinking about opening night - are you guys thinking more about the weekend?

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Lois Gilbert

we're doing another JazzCorner/Vision hang after pary

At the Living Theater

I'm out again. Too late for me.

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by Lois Gilbert

we're doing another JazzCorner/Vision hang after pary

give me a couple of dates of when you folks are thinking about a hang

Patricia is thinking about opening night - are you guys thinking more about the weekend?

I note that you didn't do this the year I came.

[Uli]

Originally Posted by Steve Reynolds

for June 14th I hope to bring a crowd - I hope to have a few who don't know experience Hamid Drake from close-up. A few dead heads and a few who think they know jazz but have never heard any of *these* guys!

for me, I could complain that the fest has few new faces - and few of the bright stars from my universe - but one day I will travel far to see those guys...

but - to see the last real blues tenorman from Chicago play one more time with The King of New York and the great drummer almost makes me cry for joy now....

don't know how he is playing at 80 - but I can picture how it is going to be when he walks up to the stage with those big old shoes and I really do believe it will all come together when he gets in the slouch and that *sound* comes out of his horn - the sound of the great Fred Anderson - something makes me think that a few might be crying and dancing in the ailes one more time - maybe, maybe like it was those years back when the trio was a quartet with Kidd.

and damn - I wish Ulrich could take a plane to New York - damn do I want to see you, my friend - no matter whatver ever has happened or has been said - naybe I think I might not havelived without this music when everything else was falling apart in those years,,,,

and my youg friend who loves Brotz - he can't believe he will see him - but what he really wants is to see the Tentet - but maybe that will happen again too....


and maybe I even come back on the 15th to see the quartet with Barnes and Brwon joing the seminal bass/drums tandem

Missed this the first time around. Would be nice too hook up again, Steven but have to be back in town that weekend. But you'll enjoy it, I guarantee.

There is a slight chance that I mite be able to catch one of the early days of the fest as I will be passing thru New York from my daughter's graduation at Williams.

[hornplayer]

AFter is too late for me, too.

But Pete -- what about dinner somewhere before Ernest Dawkins on Thursday?

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by hornplayer

But Pete -- what about dinner somewhere before Ernest Dawkins on Thursday?

Won't work for me.

[Steve Reynolds]

Can we expect to hear Fred at his best Uli?

have you heard him play recently?

I told my friends who have no idea who he is that they will see one the truly great tenor players who happens to be 80 years old.

They are already doubting me, I imagine

I told my friend that Brotzmann is 67 or 68, but he already heard him play on record, so he knows he must be invincable

[Uli]

Sure. Heard Fred just last month during his birthday bash.

[Frisco]

Originally Posted by Lois Gilbert

we're doing another JazzCorner/Vision hang after pary

give me a couple of dates of when you folks are thinking about a hang

Patricia is thinking about opening night - are you guys thinking more about the weekend?

The weekend would make more sense for me. I may not even be in til Thursday.

[Lois Gilbert]

Update

I talked with Patricia today. We'd like to do it Thursday night and she was thinking of Sabir leading the jam.

Need your input... like Sabir leading, other suggestions? Thursday cool?

thanks Lois

[Steve Reynolds]

Thursday is good for me as long as I can confirm I am off on Friday the 12th.

My guess though is I get there for Ernest Dawkins @ ~ 9:00 unless I am real convinced by someone here that I need to see the William Hooker trio with Adam Lane (who is fine) - Can anyone tell me anything about Darius Jones who is listed as playing saxophone?

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Steve Reynolds

Thursday is good for me as long as I can confirm I am off on Friday the 12th.

My guess though is I get there for Ernest Dawkins @ ~ 9:00 unless I am real convinced by someone here that I need to see the William Hooker trio with Adam Lane (who is fine) - Can anyone tell me anything about Darius Jones who is listed as playing saxophone?

Oscar Micheaux was a pioneering independent black filmmaker, so I think the Hooker performance could be interesting. Don Byron did a great live score for a Micheaux film at Prospect Park some years ago.

Gotta go to work the next day, so no post-show hang for me.

[Steve Reynolds]

well I actually don't do many late night hangs of any type anymore but it would wonderfull to meet and great as many fellow JCS'ers as possible

plus as I mentioned before, I think I need to see Sunny Murray at least one time - plus I have never seen Ernest Dawkins or any of those guys.

[Pete C]

Originally Posted by Steve Reynolds

well I actually don't do many late night hangs of any type anymore but it would wonderfull to meet and great as many fellow JCS'ers as possible

How many fellow JC'ers do you expect to see?

[relyles]

If all the planets are in proper alignment, I am going to try to get down for the weekend - at a minimum for Sunday.

[Steve Reynolds]

would hope that some of the ex-jazz fans might drop their jaded nature and show up for some screaming free jazz from NY, Chicago and the world

then again, I was once a bit jaded to music I thought I might not love anymore

come to find out that nothing could be further from the truth..

[Frisco]

Thursday is good for me. Looks pretty definite that it'll be my first day in.
And I like Sabir. Haven;'t seen him since last June.
I'm going to start the night at Roulette for Urs Leimgruber, Okkyung Lee, and Peter Evans and get there for Sunny Murray's set.

[Paul B]

I'll meet you there Steve. Most of the VF music is of little interest to me these days, but I gotta see the Reynolds "bounce" once again...