2010 Vision Festival Schedule

[paul secor]

Just in case this hasn't been posted previously: http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule/vision15

[papsrus]

Thanks for posting that. Mulling a trip up to NYC about that time.

[cliffpeterson]

I am planning to go with some friends for the concerts on the 24th including the ones for muhal richard abrams. would be my first time hearing him in concert.

[Chuck Nessa]

Wish I could be there. The Abrams/Bankhead/Brown trio sounds intriguing. The last few times I've heard Muhal he's been wonderful.

[cliffpeterson]

So I made it down for the Thursday concerts with a few friends. Starting at 7 PM, Muhal Richard Abrams performed solo for approx. 50 minutes seemingly nonstop. That is, not allowing for what seemed to be intended use of space/silence. Not familiar enough with his music to identify the tune-For all I know it was simply free improvisation-and it was great. The second act was to be fred anderson with chad taylor. That obviously did not go off. Instead they had 10 minutes of silence for fred and moved on. The Lifetime Trio went next, joseph jarman, rob garcia on drums and johh ehlis on guitar. Jarman wove in comments about both Fred and Muhal. Also sang two songs. Ehlis was a suprise. He seemed to be able to play any style. At one point I dozed off (did I explain that I drove 3 hours to get there and that I usually go to sleep around 8-9 PM?) when I woke up a very tall distinguished looking older man was playing tenor. Shit I thought it looked like John Tchicai. And it was him!!!!!!!! Very Cool despite the lack of a/c and the temp inside being around 85 degrees. The whole set was under an hour. The final act came on-Abrams with Harrison Bankhead on bass and Ari Brown on sax. Again seemed to be doing free inprov for an hour. Great stuff. And except for the emotions with Fred's passing, a great evening. Drove home, got 4 hours of sleep and went to work with a smile on my face. For somebody approaching 60 not bad.

[Pete C]

Sorry you had to see Jarman singing. I saw Tchicai in the audience at Prospect Park last weekend for Bitches Brew Revisited. I wonder why he gave up alto.

[sheldonm]

I was there for 5 days of it. The fest was nice...rather hot in the Abrons Art Center and NYC in general and the death of Fred was a real downer. I was invited to exhibit a handful of photographs at the venue which was cool. Snuck out one night to catch the Rick Germanson Quintet @ Smalls.... with Eric Alexander, Gerald Cannon, Joe Farnsworth, Duane Eubanks and Germanson on piano. Andy Bey was in the house and came up and sang one tune.

Also caught a couple nice photo exhibits, one at MOMA and one at a gallery I don't recall the name.

m~