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Article: Live Review

Vision Festival 2009: Day 6

by John Sharpe
July 19, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Planet Dream / Fred Anderson Trio / Michelle Rosewoman and Quintessence / Whit Dickey/Eri Yamamoto/Daniel Carter / Peter Brotzmann's Full Blast Trio 14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 5

by John Sharpe
July 17, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Seth Meicht's Big Sound Ensemble / Bear and Eagle / Darius Jones Trio / Matthew Shipp / Rob Brown Trio / Milford Graves Quartet / Lisa Sokolov Trio / Joe Morris GoGo Mambo 14th Annual ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 4

by John Sharpe
July 16, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Miriam Parker's Corridor / Charles Gayle Trio / The Ras Ensemble / The Ayler Project / Zim Ngqawana and the Collective Quartet 14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center New ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 3

by John Sharpe
July 14, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 Yvonne Meier's Scores / David Budbill / William Hooker's Bliss Trio--A Silent Film/Live Music Project / Jason Jordan and Friends / Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble / Sunny Murray Philly Quartet 14th ...

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Article: Album Review

Kirk Knuffke / Federico Ughi / Chris Welcome: Garden Of Gifts

Read "Garden Of Gifts" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 13, 2009

There are no signposts to direct towards great free improvisation recordings, because there are no scenic overlooks where it's possible to pull over and take a snapshot or buy a postcard before heading to the next tourist attraction. To take in a recording such as Garden Of Gifts, it's necessary to stand back and take in ...

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Vision Festival 2009: Day 2

by John Sharpe
July 10, 2009

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 All-Star Collective / Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble / Sun Ra Arkestra14th Annual Vision Festival Abrons Arts Center New York, New York June 10, 2009 Chapter Index All-Star Collective Bill ...

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Ayman Fanous and Tomas Ulrich in Concert: Improvisational Excitement in Classical Music

by Erik R. Quick
June 24, 2009

Ayman Fanous and Tomas UlrichSt. Mary's Episcopal ChurchWashington D.C.May 9, 2009 Jazz performance and concert production is hardly thriving in Washington, D.C. Clubs have either closely entirely or altered programming significantly so as to focus on music deemed to have wider commercial appeal. As a result, creative improvisation is increasingly hard ...

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Article: Profile

Milford Graves: Time Piece

by Marc Medwin
June 22, 2009

"Don't tell me how many years you've been doing something." Milford Graves's delivery is surprisingly restrained given the directness of his statement. “I want to know how completely you're filling that time, how you're spending each nanosecond." The statement defines the energy and vitality that this extraordinary musician brings to every aspect of his ...

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News: Award / Grant

2009 JJA Jazz Awards Winners

June 17, 2009

Drumroll, please! And the winners of the 2009 Jazz Journalist Association (JJA) awards are... Top Honors 1. Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Lee Konitz 2. Musician of the Year Sonny Rollins 3. Composer of the Year Maria Schneider 4. Up and Coming Artist of the Year Esperanza ...

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Downtown Music Gallery A Summer Blockbuster Hit

by Mark Corroto
June 17, 2009

Imagine the opening credits to a summer blockbuster movie that starts out in space looking down at the earth. As the camera moves in you recognize North America, then the east coast comes into frame and finally the island of Manhattan. The camera pans across the skyscrapers, down, down, down to Chinatown between the Manhattan and ...