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Vision Festival 2008: Day 1
by John Sharpe
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Opening Invocation Taylor Ho Bynum Dave Douglas The Nu Band Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney 13th Annual Vision Festival Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City
Warren Smith: Natural/Cultural Forces
by John Sharpe
How best to impart compositional intent to a band? Musical notation, graphical diagrams, singing or playing parts or discussing motives and visions? Veteran percussionist Warren Smith has experienced the whole gamut over his 74 years, with everyone from Charles Mingus, Muhal Richard Abrams, Bill Dixon, Aretha Franklin and Van Morrison to contemporary classical composer Harry Partch. ...
Kali Z. Fasteau/ Kidd Jordan: Live at the Kerava Jazz Festival
by John Sharpe
Multi-instrumentalism is one of the enduring legacies of the '60s New Thing and Chicago's AACM, where everything was fair game in the hunt for unfettered expressionism. Few have taken it as far as Kali Z. Fasteau, who plays a different instrument on each of the nine tracks of this live recording from Finland's 2007 Kerava Jazz ...
Tom Abbs: Combining Music and Film
by John Sharpe
Bassist, composer and film-maker Tom Abbs has enlivened not only the ensembles in which he has played, but also the New York City free jazz scene with his brand of musical activism, through the Jump Arts Foundation. An accomplished instrumentalist on tuba as well as bass, he has collaborated with downtown stalwarts Daniel Carter, Steve Swell, ...
Matthew Shipp Trio at the Vortex in London
by John Sharpe
Matthew Ship Trio Vortext London, England April 21, 2008 London's Vortex was packed to bursting for the first date in pianist Matthew Shipp's European tour with long-time associates Joe Morris (better known as a guitarist but here on bass) and Whit Dickey on drums. Those years of experience in ...
Henry Grimes Twofer: The Power of Light & Going to the Ritual
by John Sharpe
Henry Grimes & Oluyemi Thomas The Power of Light Not Two 2007 Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali Going to the Ritual Porter Records 2008 Which are the ...
Jason Adasiewicz: Rolldown
by John Sharpe
Vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz has likely listened to a lot of Monk. Not that this adventurous quintet outing is another addition to the already crowded oeuvre of Monkian repertory, but more because the disjointed rhythms, odd suspensions, long tones and variable tempos echo the late pianist's angularity and obliqueness. This set was recorded back in 2005, following ...
Rob Brown: Crown Trunk Root Funk
by John Sharpe
One-off assemblages can be hit or miss affairs, but so powerful was saxophonist Rob Brown's ensemble at the 2006 Vision Festival that it was deemed essential that they were brought into the studio. With his carefully controlled use of harmonics and split tones, allied to a quicksilver inventiveness, Brown is one of the ...
Patricia Nicholson Parker: Everyone Has a Vision
by John Sharpe
Patricia Nicholson Parker has been an indefatigable organizing spirit in New York City's artistic community centered on the Lower East Side since 1981, when she directed and helped to organize “A Thousand Cranes Peace Opera," for the opening of the UN Special Sessions on Disarmament. After working with bassists Peter Kowald and William Parker to help ...
Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler
by John Sharpe
Expectations must have been confounded in the premiere of flutist Nicole Mitchell's Xenogenesis Suite at the 2007 Vision Festival. Presented here in a crisply recorded version from the Firehouse 12 studio the previous day, the suite is a far cry from her previous Festival appearance with a freewheeling trio in 2005, and very different again from ...
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