Vision Festival XI: Final Weekend

This Friday, Saturday and Sunday
at Angel Orensanz Center
172 Norfolk Street
New York City

Tix $25/night available at the door
Info: http://www.visionfestival.org or 212-696-6681

Don't miss the final weekend of VISION FESTIVAL XI. The festival has saved some of its best performances for last with incredible performances on tap from HENRY GRIMES & SEKOU SUNDIATA, BY ANY MEANS (Rashied Ali, Charles Gayle and William Parker), LAFAYETTE GILCHRIST, ROSCOE MITCHELL and much, much more (see below for full information). And please join us on Sunday for a farewell performance from one of jazz's most incredible ensembles: the DAVID S. WARE QUARTET.

Vision Festival XI
FINAL WEEKEND - COMPLETE SCHEDULE

Friday, June 16

5pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
NYC Community Arts Organizing: What's Wrong in Gotham?

7pm
Donald Byrd Spectrum Dance Theater w/ Hamid Drake (perc.)

7:30pm
Hamid Drake's Bindu: Hamid Drake (dms), Sabir Mateen (rds), Daniel Carter(rds), Greg Ward (rds), Ernest Dawkins (rds)

8:30pm
Rob Brown Quartet: Rob Brown (as), Craig Taborn (p), William Parker (b), Gerald Cleaver (dms)

9:30pm
Billy Bang Quintet: Billy Bang (vln), James Zollar (trpt) Andrew Bemkey (p), Todd Nicholson (b), Newman Taylor Baker (dms)

10:30pm
Henry Grimes (b) / Sekou Sundiata (poet)

+ MIDNIGHT AFTERPARTY AT MO PITKINS
(34 Avenue A btwn 2nd and 3rd)
Featuring Dennis Gonzalez and Friends!
$5 w/ festival stamp $10 all others

Saturday Afternoon, June 17 - The New Generation

1pm
Ras Moshe and The Music Now Unit: Ras Moshe (rds), Matt Lavelle (trpt) Tor Yochai Snyder (gtr), Matt Heyner (bs), Todd Nicholson (bs), Jackson Krall (dr)

2pm
Yusuke Yamamoto Duo: Yusuke Yamamoto (vbs), Ben Monder (gtr)

3pm
Matana Roberts' Mississippi Moonchile: Matana Roberts (rds), Matt Bauder (tnr), Thomson Kneeland (bs), Tomas Fujiwara (dr), Tyshawn Sorey (pno)

4pm
Lafayette Gilchrist (pno) / Hamid Drake (perc)

Saturday Evening, June 17

5pm
PANEL DISCUSSION New Orleans 2006: Understanding and Responding

7pm
Slammin' The Infinite: Steve Swell (tmb), Sabir Mateen (reeds), Matthew Heyner (bs), Klaus Kugel (dms), w/ guest John Blum (pno)

8pm
Roscoe Mitchell & the Chicago Quartet: Roscoe Mitchell (rds, perc), Corey Wilkes (tpt), Harrison Bankhead (b), Vincent Davis (dms)

9pm
Joe Morris (gtr) / Barre Philips (b)

10pm
Jason Kao Hwang's EDGE: Jason Kao Hwang (vln), Taylor Ho Bynum (crnt), Ken Filiano (b), Andrew Drury (dms)

11pm
By Any Means: Rashied Ali (dms), Charles Gayle (sax), William Parker (b)

Sunday Early Evening, June 18

3pm
PANEL DISCUSSION Artist-Organized Presentations in Jazz: 1970 to 2006 and Beyond

5pm
Miya Masaoka (koto, laser koto, elec.) / Sylvie Courvoisier (pno), Peggy Lee (cello)

6pm
Kidd Jordan Quartet: Kidd Jordan (ts), Joel Futterman (p, sax), William Parker (b), Alvin Fielder (dms)

7pm
Patricia Nicholson (dnc), William Parker (b, sintir), Hamid Drake (dms), Jo Wood Brown (vis art)

8pm
Whit Dickey Ensemble: Whit Dickey (dms), Daniel Levin (cello), Mat Moran (vbs)

9pm
David S. Ware Quartet: Final US Performance Ever!!! David S. Ware (ts), Matthew Shipp (p), William Parker (b), Guillermo E. Brown (dms)

VISUAL ARTISTS AT VISION FESTIVAL XI

Anne Humanfeld
Alain Kirili
Margaret Lampe
Kannenstine
Ariane Lopez-Huici
Bill Mazza
Victor Melamed
Yuko Otomo
Jorgo Schafer
Jeff Schlanger
Maura Sheehan
Zak Sherzad
Marilyn Sontag

Photographers

Jacques Bisceglia
Stefania Errore
Ziga Koritnik