Results for "Vision Festival"

Jen Shyu, Luke Stewart, and Konjur Collective at Vision Festival 2026

by Fran Kursztejn
July 3, 2026

Jen Shyu, Luke Stewart, Konjur Collective Abrons Arts Center Vision FestivalNew York, NY June 24, 2026 The inaugural night of Vision Festival, despite the massive variety of musicians and instruments on display, did not feature any vocalists. During night two, vocalists made up a strong majority. Jen Shyu's “Fertile Bodies, ...

Marshall Allen, Trae Crudup, Black Cherry, and DoYeon Kim At Vision Festival 2026

by Fran Kursztejn
July 2, 2026

Marshall Allen, Trae Cruddup, Hamid Drake, William Parker, DoYeon Kim Abrons Arts Center Vision Festival June 26, 2026 Creative music (in William Parker's words, “so-called jazz") is an old scene in New York City. Ornette Coleman at least nominally birthed the “free jazz" movement in the '60s, and ever since, the ...

Joe Morris at Vision Fest 30

by Fran Kursztejn
June 28, 2026

Joe MorrisAbrons Arts CenterVision Festival New York, NYJune 23, 2026 “Joe Morris is the real deal," said Matthew Shipp, relating the first time he met the multi-hyphenate musician and educator, who was presented with the Arts for Art's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th annual Vision Festival. Morris introduced himself ...

Steve Swell Quartet & Michael Foster / Chuck Roth Duo at P.I.T.

by Fran Kursztejn
June 19, 2026

Steve Swell, Michael Foster, Chuck Roth P.I.T.  Brooklyn, NY June 14, 2026 In the microcosm of the Greater New York Improvised Musics scene, Arts for Arts' Vision Festival, kicking off June 22nd at the Abrams Art Center in the Lower East Side, dominates the attention of artist and dilettante alike. While unlikely ...

Vilnius Mama Jazz 2026

by Ian Patterson
June 11, 2026

Vilnius Mama Jazz Lithuanian National Drama Theatre25th Edition Vilnius. LithuaniaMay 22-24, 2026 Vilnius Mama Jazz turned 25. In festival terms that is early middle age. When you consider that 25 years is roughly a quarter of the entire history of jazz, the significance of the milestone assumes greater meaning.

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Vision Festival 2023

by Frank Rubolino
July 3, 2023

Beginning in 1996, the Vision Festival In New York has been a mainstay for featuring both established and upcoming artists dedicated to playing music outside the boundaries of established mores. Now, some 27 years later, it is still going strong and is fully committed to its original mission. This year, at Roulette in Brooklyn, bassists Joelle ...

Other Minds 25, Day 2

by John Chacona
October 22, 2021

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 15, 2021 There are festivals for which centering the social aspect of music is the point of the exercise. Conceived, as founder Charles Amirkhanian put it in ...

Other Minds 25, Day 1

by John Chacona
October 20, 2021

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Taube Atrium Theater Other Minds Festival San Francisco, CA October 14, 2021 When the organizers of San Francisco's Other Minds Festival chose Moment's Notice as the name of its 25th edition, it might have been with the hope ...

Meet Jonathan Glass

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
October 5, 2020

New York, New York, we can't imagine our latest jazz Super Fan thriving anywhere else, inspired as he is by the sports teams, the museums, the art galleries, the theater, and the jazz clubs—-perhaps most of all, the jazz clubs. You might have spotted him, sketchbook in hand, capturing the spirit of the night's performance for ...