No reports on the Vision Fest?

[Chuck Nessa]

Tonight I received an email from John Litweiler detailing his experiences at the festival. I am astounded to see no reports here (did I miss some? - I hope so).

More interesting to me (at least) than the Neverland Ranch thread. WTF are we about?

Nothing wrong with humor but DAMN!

Edited June 26, 2005 by Chuck Nessa

[.:.impossible]

I hear you. I haven't heard much of anything about Vision this year. Did anyone here go? Any links to reviews? I've been hoping something would pop up here. What was Litweiler's impression?

[Chuck Nessa]

He is writing a review for Coda. With his permission I will post his email here.

[catesta]

I hear you. I haven't heard much of anything about Vision this year. Did anyone here go? Any links to reviews? I've been hoping something would pop up here. What was Litweiler's impression?

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I did find this.

Jazz Times

[.:.impossible]

Thanks Catesta.

Chuck, I hope he will allow you to publicize his thoughts. I'd love to hear what he thought of WARM performance. The Bill Dixon/Warren Smith ensemble too! Also, that duet between Brotzmann and Nasheet Waits! And the Thurman Barker group. Hell, the list goes on and on. Jarman with Anderson... I'll look forward to reading his thoughts, either here or in Coda.

[Aggie87]

I posted the Vision Fest 2005 Schedule back in April, but didn't get much response either. I would have LOVED to have been at some of the performances!!

[7/4]

Here's a somewhat dubious review.

[brownie]

The Village Voice coverage on the Vision festival

[fent99]

Some highlights broadcast on the bbc on Friday. Sounded good though I fell asleep. Still up on the webcast.

[.:.impossible]

I hope we get to hear that WARM performance on disc! From what I've read so far, it sounds like a nice quartet.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Sorry - it was reported that WARM refused to have their set recorded. But maybe that means they have plans for something.

Mike

[.:.impossible]

That would be a good thing as well. Michael, were you there?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Negative

Mike

[EKE BBB]

14 photos of Jazz Vision 2005 (Brötzmann, W. Parker, Fred Anderson...) available in the Pictures section of this Yahoo group: jazz_sp

http://es.photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ja...case.yahoo.com/

Guess you have to sign-up.

[brownie]

EKE, I have no Vision when trying to link to the site you posted.

All I get is a 'Mensaje de error de!' message

[EKE BBB]

EKE, I have no Vision when trying to link to the site you posted.

All I get is a 'Mensaje de error de!' message

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brownie: you´ll need to have a Yahoo account and probably to register to jazz_sp group.

[clifford_thornton]

I heard there were a lot of last-minute changes with the lineup, and some no-shows. I myself have lost interest in it lately because the last couple I went to were pretty much identical experiences. Though I did like Fred Van Hove and Conny Bauer...

I'd imagine Brotzmann and Waits to be very good - saw that duo maybe three years ago and it was hot then.

[brownie]

EKE, I have no Vision when trying to link to the site you posted.

All I get is a 'Mensaje de error de!' message

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brownie: you´ll need to have a Yahoo account and probably to register to jazz_sp group.

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looks like yahoo.sp is not accepting my yahoo.fr registration

I give up!

[EKE BBB]

I´ve asked Roberto Barahona to see if he allows me to post some of his photos here. Looks like those appearing at his website, Puro Jazz, are not from this year´s festival.

[Lazaro Vega]

This came across from Margaret Davis:

"The Village Voice," June 29th-July 5th, 'O5

"The Sound of the City"

At a converted synagogue downtown, the faithful are rewarded

VISION FESTIVAL

Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts

June 14 through 19

DELIVERANCE

by Larry Blumenfeld

A sound man desperately tried to signal the set's end, but WARM -- an

elder-statesmen quartet comprising bassist Reggie Workman, drummer Pheeroan

akLaff, and saxophonists Sam Rivers and Roscoe Mitchell -- paid no

attention. They were lost in a glorious balladic tune, transported to some

delicate, unbound space. And the crowd that packed the Angel Orensanz

Center was right with them, never mind the time. It was an inspiring

Tuesday-night start to the 1Oth annual Vision Festival, as fine and focused

a celebration of free-jazz improvisation as we have, and an event full of

heroic hook-ups that regularly transcended limitation.

Two such performances book-ended Thursday night, which honored Chicago-based

tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson, who is admired for his subtle mixture of

lyrical swagger and post-bop invention and for providing two generations of

musciians with a place to play: his venerable South Side club the Velvet

Lounge. Opening was the Fred Anderson 196O's Quartet, which reconnected

Anderson with homeboys Joseph Jarman on saxophone and flute and Alvin

Fielder on drums and included Chicagoan Tatsu Aoki on bass. Anderson, who

stoops over when playing, holding his horn close to the floor, began by

blowing gentle figures that gradually gained more volume and complexity.

Jarman, on alto, added precise harmonics that created subtle halos around

the tenor lines. When Jarman switched to bass flute, he played

Asian-sounding flutters, with Anderson adding softly phrased lines that

extended into long tendrils of be-bop expression. The rhythm section stuck

for the most part to a reactive rumble, calibrated throughout to the tone

and energy of the horns.

Later, Anderson was joined by fellow tenor saxophonist and septuagenarian

Kidd Jordan from New Orleans for a quartet that included Chicagoan Hamid

Drake on drums and bassist William Parker, a ubiquitous presence throughout

the festival. Jordan, who has a peculiarly beautiful style of producing

squirrely squeals from his horn, stooped down to match Anderson's

characteristic posture as he did so. Anderson reached into the upper

registers of his horn's overtones to match Kidd's pitch. Parker worked his

way in with strong undergirding lines that also lent potent melodic

suggestion. Drake joined in with a brief bombast, which settled quickly

into an insistent swing, and they were off on a riveting display of brute

force blended with tender beauty, the two tenors issuing lines that flapped

like ribbons in the wind, tethered to the flagpole of Parker and Drake's

groove.

... [Edited out for the moment: material on other groups who played] ...

All this was nearly enough to make you forget that the JVC Festival was

simultaneously under way at concert halls uptown. Underneath the peeling

paint that adds flecked beauty to the Orensanz, originally one of the first

synagogues on the lower East Side, the Vision Festival faithful were

presented with a still-vital aesthetic that needs no corporate sponsorship,

answering instead to a higher authority.

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This article is not up on the Web yet; I've transcribed it into the computer

from the print version of the newspaper. I'll provide a link as soon as

there is one so you can read the complete version. There's a great photo of

Henry Grimes in the print version, too (though photos sometimes don't appear

in the Web version).

Blessings on Larry Blumenfeld, the rarest of New York press persons who can

hear, feel, express, and celebrate the holy, rapt, devout, profoundly

religious communal experience that is the Vision Festival.

Will someone please print this out and give it to Fred? Thanks!

[Lazaro Vega]

I see Brownie already had this up...I'll send Margaret the link....

[EKE BBB]

Under his permission, I will post a few photos that Roberto Barahona (see his website Puro Jazz ) took in the Vision Jazz Festival 2005. He will be posting many more in his FTP soon.

Peter Brotzmann

[EKE BBB]

Eddie Gale

[EKE BBB]

Fred Anderson / K. Jordan

[EKE BBB]

Ismael Navarrete