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Vision Festival X - Day Four, June 17, 2005
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6The Friday night crowd brought an eager buzz to the fourth night of the Vision Festival, though there was still room for more. The intimate atmosphere meant that it was possible for fans to rub shoulders with their heroes ...
Vision Festival X - Day Three, June 16, 2005
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6Thursday June 16 was billed as the day to celebrate the Fred Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring the Chicago tenor sax elder statesman and operator of the fabled Velvet Lounge. Previous Vision Festivals have honoured dedicatees like Don Cherry, ...
Vision Festival X - Day Two, June 15, 2005
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6The ornate carvings around the hall bear testament to the fact that the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts was once a synagogue. But its walls are now emblazoned with paintings, drawings, and photographs, while metal sculptures by Alain ...
Vision Festival X - Day One, June 14, 2005
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 The stellar lineup for the tenth Vision Festival, held at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts in New York City, was enough to get me checking budget hotel availability and booking my flight across the Atlantic. That the ...
Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite Quartet at Cafe Wilhelmina in Eindhoven
by John Sharpe
Steve Swell's Slammin' The Infinite Quartet Café Wilhelmina Eindhoven, Netherlands April 18, 2005 Without fanfare, Steve Swell has become one of the leading proponents of the trombone in free jazz circles and a fixture of the NY Lower East Side scene, featuring in bands such as William Parker's Little Huey ...
Sons D
by John Sharpe
Each year the Sons d'hiver festival in Paris plays host to an evening where luminaries from the New York avant-garde firmament present a taste of the Big Apple's annual Vision Festival. On 4 February 2005, three groups gathered at the Theatre Jean Vilar in the Paris suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine, before a large and enthusiastic audience, to ...
London Jazz Festival: No Compromises
by John Sharpe
November 15, 2004 The Royal Festival Hall played host to a double bill to die for, as part of the London Jazz Festival, featuring innovators who came to prominence at opposite ends of the '60s. Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon were both part of the 1964 October Revolution in Jazz, while Anthony Braxton emerged from Chicago's ...
Equal Interest at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
by John Sharpe
EQUAL INTEREST AT Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 18 November 1999The anticipatory hush in the QE Hall was broken by the peeping of a mobile phone. Myra Melford turned from the piano and peered into the darkness. ‘If it’s for me, tell them I’m busy’. She wasn’t kidding. The trio launched into a Melford composition which ...
Carmen McRae: Carmen Sings Monk
by John Sharpe
Carmen Sings Monk is just one of five new reissues in BMG’s First Editions series, released under the rejuvenated Bluebird Jazz label. Other titles in the series’ first offering include Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney (Fancy Meeting You Here), Coleman Hawkins (The Hawk in Hi-Fi), Charles Mingus (Tijuana Moods) and Gil Scott-Heron (Free Will). Each release ...
Bill Gilliam: Spirit Matter
by John Sharpe
Pianist/composer Bill Gilliam was born in London, England but is now based in Toronto. In addition to leading the Bill Gilliam Ensemble, this multi-faceted artist has also written music for theatre productions, films and dancers. Spirit Matter, a follow-up to his first contemporary jazz release Urban Undercurrents, features eight inventive originals performed by some of Toronto’s ...
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