Peter Brötzmann—Celebrating A Lifetime of Achievement
Each year, the Vision Festival honors the achievements of one living artist who has greatly influenced the world around them and paved the way for other innovators to move forward. On Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 Arts For Art and The Vision Festival will celebrate a Lifetime of Achievement by Peter Brotzmann. This great improviser was one of the first practitioners of the Free Jazz movement in Europe. Brotzmann has programmed his own evening in such a way that it would reflect his ongoing pursuit of musical innovation. This 70 year old artist is not interested in looking back—only in looking forward and being as creative as possible in the present time.
On Community
June 10, 2011 & 5PM—PLAYING FREE OUTDOORS @ VISION @ Campos Plaza Playground (East 13th Street btw Ave B and Ave C)
On Friday, June 10th, Vision Festival 16 returns to Campos Plaza, a NYCHA Housing Development to present a Free Outdoor Vision Festival Performance. This performance is an opportunity to reengage the kind of community that fostered some of NY's most innovative artists. Gerald Cleaver Sextet with the Campos Youth Band will perform a special concert for this event. This will be followed by Michael Wimberly's percussion ensemble, AFRAZZ. Take A Stand—Arts and Community
Arts For Art maintains a commitment to understand what is at play in our creative community. We are leading the way in building opportunities for uniting the spectrum of creative arts. The Vision Festival draws people from around the world, who are interested in what is great, creative and innovative. AFA has been working to strengthen the artistic communities by holding town meetings, panel discussions and creating opportunities for artists to perform and come together—to build a power through unity.
This year's festival features three public discussions:
June 5: Opening the Festival—Music and Politics—A Black Perspective: Amiri Baraka
Ed Bullins, Woodie King, Marvin X, William Parker, Louis Reyes Rivera, moderator
June 6: Organizing today/unions/artists/social action—Marc Ribot, Jo Wood Brown, Andrew Schwartz, Patricia Parker, Fay Victor June 9—Innovative Music in Education—Gerald Cleaver, Daniel Levin, Tom Zlabinger,
Nicole Federici, Juan Pablo Carletti, The Future of Jazz / 80 youth / four NYC schools
One of the goals of the Vision Festival is to re-energize the link between the communities that fostered the growth of America's jazz music, to help ensure that they will be a part of it's future. This is why we are proud to feature the York College Big Band, the Mott Hall High School Percussion Ensemble, and the Achievement First MS Orch and the Sonic Smithy Youth Orchestra. These bands are part of AFA's Create A Musical Reach program and are committed to innovation and to the future of Jazz.
FALLEN HEROES
Billy Bang Honored
Billy Bang was honored in 2010 VF with a special award for his leadership, vision, and musical genius. This year we have suffered the loss of this irreplaceable violin legend Billy Bang—his spirit, his music, his presence. Now he has joined with other angels of music. He was scheduled to perform on the last night of the festival. The Festival Finale will feature a 25 Piece String Ensemble plus special guests under the direction of William Parker. They will perform Bang's Mystery of the Mekong.
Marion Brown Tribute
We have suffered the loss of another Giant of Jazz, the great alto saxophone legend, visual artist and ethnomusicologist, Marion Brown. His passing must not go unacknowledged. On the opening night of the Festival, June 5 The GROUP an all-star collective featuring Andrew Cyrille, Hamiet Bluiett, Ahmed Abdullah, Charles Burnham, Bob Stewart will perform a special tribute to Marion Brown.
SCHEDULE SUMMARY
VISION Nights
Sunday, June 5: Opening Night at Abrons
4pm Panel Music and Politics: A Black Perspective—Amiri Baraka & Friends
Amiri Baraka / Ed Bullins / Woodie King / Marvin X / William Parker / Louis Reyes
Rivera, moderator
Main Stage
6pm Blood Trio: Whit Dickey / Sabir Mateen / Mike Bisio
7pm The GROUP—Tribute to Marion Brown
D.D. Jackson Charles Burnham Ahmed Abdullah Hamiet Bluiett Bob Stewart Andrew Cyrille 9pm Tchicai: In the Footsteps of John Coltrane
Garrison Fewell / Rosie Hertlein / Alex Weiss/ John Tchicai / Dmitry Ishenko
10pm Tony Malaby's Tamirindo Trio: Tony Malaby / William Parker / Tom Rainey
Downstairs
7.45 Stephen Haynes Parrhesia: Stephen Haynes / Joe Morris / Warren Smith
8.30 David Henderson / John Marshall poetry and drums
June 6: Evolving Music/Voice @Vision
5.00 Panel: Organizing today/unions/artists/social action
Marc Ribot, Jo Wood Brown, Andrew Schwartz, Patricia Parker, Fay Victor 7.00 Vocal Flight A New Evolving Vocal Tradition
Fay Victor / Kyoko Kitamura / Jean Carla Rodea / Ken Filiano / Tyshawn Sorey 8.30 Michael Attias Quartet
Michael Attias / Ralph Alessi / Sean Conly / Tom Rainey
10.30 Josh Roseman's Water Surgeons So Many Bones
Josh Roseman / Curtis Hasselbring / Jacob Garchik / Barjay McAll
Downstairs The Music is Evolving thru All Cultures
7.45 Dawn of Midi
Amino Belyamani /Aakaash Israni / Qasim Naqvi
9.15 Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up
Jonathan Finlayson / Brian Settles / Liberty Ellman / Trevor Dunn / Tomas Fukiwara
June 7: Festival of New Trumpet FONT @ VISION
7.00 Amir ElSaffar's With/Between
Jen Shyu / Amir ElSaffar / Liberty Ellman / Francois Moutin / Tomas Fujiwara
8.30 Ted Daniel's International Brass Membrane Society: Salutes to King Oliver
Ted Daniel / Charles Burnham / Howard Johnson / Newman Taylor Baker / Orlando 'Que' Rodriguez
10.00 Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Tomasz Stanko / Craig Taborn / Thomas Morgan / Jim Black
Downstairs Films & More...
7.45 Bill Dixon: Going to the Center by Robert O'Haire & Jeff Burns
Joseph Daley: Earthtones Robert O'Haire & Jeff Burns
9.15 Stephanie Richards WATERcolor
Stephanie Richards / Kelly Rosum / Sam Minaie / Andrew Munsey / Qasim Naqvi
10.45 Jonathan Finlayson's Sicilian Defense
Jonathan Finlayson / Miles Okazaki / Keith Witty / Damion Reid
June 8: Peter Brotzmann: A Lifetime of Achievement
7.00 Peter Brötzmann's Quartet
Peter Brötzmann /Joe McPhee / Eric Revis / William Parker
8.15 Peter Brötzmann's Duo
Peter Brötzmann / Jason Adasiewicz
9.00 Pulverize the Sound
Peter Evans / Tim Dahl / Mike Pride
10.00 Peter Brötzmann's Quintet
Peter Brötzmann / Ken Vandermark / Mars Williams / Kent Kessler / Paal Nilssen- Love
June 9: An evening of special projects
7.00 Dick Griffin String Project—Commissioned by Max Roach for his daughter Dick Griffin / Mazz Swift / Charles Burnham / Judith Ensell / Akua Dixon / Warren Smith
9:15 Shaman Project
Patricia Nicholson / William Parker / Luis Carle
8.30 Kidd Jordan Project
Dave Burrell / Kidd Jordan / Hamiet Bluiett / William Parker / William Hooker
11.00 Evan Parker & Matthew Shipp DUO Project
Downstairs From Panels to Raging Cows to...
5.00 Panel Discussion: Innovative Music in Education
Tom Zlabinger, Daniel Levin, Nicole Federici, Juan Pablo Carletti, Gerald Cleaver
7.45 “The Pied Cow/a rip improvisation" with love and art from Wuppertal Jorgo Schaefer / Ute Voelker
9:30 Raging Waters, Red Sands movement in song and sound
Jen Shyu / Satoshi Haga / Ivan Barenboim / Chris Dingman / Mat Maneri / Satoshi Takeishi
10.15 25 O'Clock Band—it's a NY Seattle thing
Robin Holcomb / Dave Sewelson / David C. Hofstra / Stephen Moses
June 10: FREE In the Afternoon:
FREE Play @ Campos
5.00 Gerald Cleaver & Campos Youth: All these Kids can Play
Andrew Bishop / Amir ElSaffar / Taylor Ho Bynum /Jean Carla Rodea / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver
6.00 AFRAZZ: rhythm from here to there
Dave Mullen / Anthony Robustelli / Richie Robles / Michael Wimberly / Haileja Euma / Ronnie Roc
June 10: Friday Night —mixing it All Up
7.30 Emily Coates and Dancers Charlie Burnham—music and Beauty Moves Amongst Us
8.00 Paradoxical Frog Young Giants
Ingrid Laubrock / Kris Davis / Mat Maneri / Tyshawn Sorey
9.30 David S. Ware: Planetary Unknown The Best needs no words
David S. Ware / William Parker / Cooper-Moore / Muhammad Ali
10.30 Henry Grimes & Marc Ribot —Legends
Downstairs Films / Politics / Action & Secrets...
6.00 Rwanda 15 (48min): film by Kivu Ruhorahoza featuring Jeremy Danneman
8.45 Action Theory trumpeting movement
Taylor Ho Bynum / Abraham Gomez-Delgado / Rachel Bernsen / Melanie Maar
9.15 Jackson Krall / Secret Music Society
Mark Hennen / Juan Quinonez / Arthur Brooks / Joe Rigby / Hill Greene / Jackson Krall
June 11: Final Day—The Next Generation
1:30 York College Big Band / CUNY Queens Tom Zlabinger—director
2:00 Mott Hall HS Percussion Ensemble Harlem Juan Pablo Carletti—director
2:30 Sonic Smithy Youth Orchestra Brooklyn Nicole Federici—director
3.00 Achievement First MS Orch. / Bushwick Daniel Levin—director
3:30 Finale—All 80 young musicians aged 5 to 20 William Parker Conducting
June 11: Final Night VISION
6.00 Reut Regev R*Time Special Edition
Reut Regev / Burton Greene / Al Macdowell / Igal Foni
7.00 Connie Crothers Quartet music without boundaries
Connie Crothers / Richard Tabnik / Ken Filiano / Roger Mancuso
8.30 All Star—Mystery Collective what makes it Vision
Cooper-Moore / Rob Brown / Roy Campbell / Jason Kao Hwang / William Parker / Gerald Cleaver / Patricia Nicholson
10.00 Sonny Simmons & François Tusques 2 Legends—enough said
11.00 Billy Bang Closes the Festival
25 piece string ensemble plus special guests performs Billy Bang's Mystery of the Mekong under the direction of William Parker
Downstairs The Mexican Connection
7.45 Geraldine Eguiluz vocal Shaman
9.15 Remi Alvarez Trio
Remi Alvarez / Arturo Baez / Gustavo Nandayapa
