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Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day Five Evening, 17 June 2006

by John Sharpe
September 28, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6Steve Swell's Slammin' the Infinite The opening set of Saturday evening was a killer. Steve Swell's Slammin' the Infinite, a working unit now for some two and a half years, hit the Vision Festival ...

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The New Generation - Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day Five Afternoon, 17 June 2006

by John Sharpe
September 24, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6 Saturday afternoon at the Vision Festival was billed as the New Generation, intending to show that this is not just about a bunch of old guys with a combined age approaching that of ...

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Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day Four, 16 June 2006

by John Sharpe
September 17, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6Donald Byrd Spectrum Dance Theater No, not that Donald Byrd. This Donald Byrd is currently artistic director of Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle, WA, not that he was in evidence this evening. The performance ...

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Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day Three, 15 June 2006

by John Sharpe
September 16, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6Paul Rutherford trio The opening set for the third evening of the Vision Festival featured the veteran UK trombonist Paul Rutherford, combining with the Vancouver based rhythm team of Torsten Muller, originally from Hamburg, ...

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Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day Two, 14 June 2006

by John Sharpe
September 7, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6 For the second year the Vision Festival chose to honour a living musician: billing Wednesday 14th June as a salute to Sam Rivers Lifetime Achievement and a celebration of his life and music ...

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Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Foundation For The Arts, NYC - Day One, 13 June 2006

by John Sharpe
August 31, 2006

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Afternoon | Day 5 Evening | Day 6 The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts on Norfolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side hosted the Vision Festival in it's Eleventh incarnation. The Vision Festival is an artist run event which is ...

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Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen: Trio X in Amsterdam

by John Sharpe
April 13, 2006

Joe McPhee - tenor saxophone, pocket trumpet Dominic Duval - bass Jay Rosen - drums Bimhuis, Amsterdam March 26, 2006 A group whose repertoire is based around classics by Monk, Ornette and even Freddie Hubbard, alongside standards and gospel tunes, is not exactly pushing the envelope, ...

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Vision Festival X, - Day Six, June 19, 2005

by John Sharpe
August 28, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra opened the final evening of the tenth Vision Festival in resounding fashion. An active unit now for over 11 years, many of the Orchestra's core members ...

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Vision Festival X - Day Five, June 18, 2005 (Part 2)

by John Sharpe
August 28, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6Billy Bang Quartet Bang's quartet this penultimate evening of the tenth Vision Festival was part of an ongoing strand of his work exorcising the ghosts of his experiences as a combat veteran in the Vietnam war. To this end ...

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Vision Festival X - Day Five, June 18, 2005 (Part 1)

by John Sharpe
August 28, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6Saturday afternoon at the Vision Festival, was given over to emerging artists. First off there was a session of readings by local poets Brian Boyles, Chavisa Woods, James Hoff and Cat Tyc, which I missed. But I did arrive ...