Vision Festival
The Vision Festival is a festival for avant-garde jazz and free jazz and related artistic movements (dance, film and visual arts) that has been taking place annually in May and June in the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1996 and in Brooklyn since 2012 .
It takes place in the last two weeks of June, parallel to the New York branch of the Newport Jazz Festival (like the JVC Jazz Festival until 2008).
Inspired by the studio Rivbea of Sam Rivers in the 1970s and the Sound Unity Festival from 1984 to 1988 was it by the dancer and choreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker founded the 1996th She had directed the Improvisers Collective for the previous two years . The non-profit organization Arts for Art , founded by Nicholson, is the sponsor of the festival . The council also includes jazz bassist William Parker , husband of Patricia Nicholson Parker and ex-musician from Rivbea, and drummer Whit Dickey .
The festival took place in different locations over the years, including the New Age Cabaret (the former Electric Circus Night Club), the youth center of St. Patrick's Cathedral and St. Nicholas of Myra Church, various cultural centers and the Knitting Factory . They reject commercial sponsors, but some of them receive money from the city's cultural funding. In 2012 the Vision Festival took place in Roulette , with performances a. a. by Paul Dunmall and Mark Dresser.
Here were, among others, David S. Ware , Sam Rivers (with his big band in 2006), Frank Lowe , Daniel Carter , William Parker, Whit Dickey, Roy Campbell , Hamid Drake , Nicole Mitchell , Rob Brown , Kidd Jordan , Henry Grimes , Marc Ribot , Chad Taylor , Rashied Ali , Joe McPhee , Jason Kao Hwang , Jayne Cortez , Fred Anderson , Matthew Shipp , Billy Bang , Eddie Gale , Amiri Baraka , Roscoe Mitchell , Steve Lacy , DJ Spooky , Yo La Tengo , Peter Kowald , Peter Brötzmann (who received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 festival), Cat Power , Louis Moholo . In 2004 the free jazz trio Revolutionary Ensemble of Leroy Jenkins , Sirone and Jerome Cooper from the 1970s reunited.
Discographic notes
- The Roy Campbell Ensemble: Akhenaten Suite (Vision, 2008)
- Vision Volume One: Vision Festival 1997 Compiled (Vision, 1998), with Mark Dresser , William Parker, Thurston Moore , John Zorn , Susie Ibarra , Borah Bergman , Cooper-Moore , Assif Tsahar , Bill Cole , David Ware
- Jemeel Moondoc Tentet - Jus Grew Orchestra: Live at the Vision Festival (Ayler Records, 2003)
- NAM: Song of Time - Live at the Vision Festival (Vision, 2004), with Ahmed Abdullah , Alex Harding, Jimmy Weinstein, Masa Kamaguchi
- Steve Swell 's Slammin 'The Infinite: Live @ The Vision Festival ( Not Two Records , 2007)
- Trio Viriditas: Live at Vision Festival VI (2008), with Alfred Harth , Kevin Norton , Wilber Morris
- Joëlle Léandre / George Lewis : Transatlantic Visions (2009)
- Wadada Leo Smith : Spiritual Dimensions (Vision, 2009)
- Stone Quartet: Live at Vision Festival (Ayler, 2011), with Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell , Roy Campbell , Mat Maneri
Web links
- Official website
- Nat Chinen The Vision Festival: On the Fringe and Reveling in Rhythm , New York Times, June 17, 2006
- Vision Festival at Discogs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ben Ratliff Its June, that must be Jazz , New York Times June 15, 2007
- ^ Ben Ratliff Two Jazz Festivals, JVC and Vision, Take Over the City , New York Times, June 9, 2006
- ↑ Nate Chinen: Jazz Acts, Blowing Superhot and Cool - Vision Festival, Experimental Jazz, at Roulette in The New York Times , June 13, 2012
- ^ Nate Chinen, Ben Ratliff on the festivals in New York in June 2011, New York Times