Vision Festival
History of the Festival
The Vision Festival is an annual in May and June in the Lower East Side of Manhattan and since 2012 that takes place in Brooklyn since 1996 Festival of avant-garde jazz and free jazz and related artistic movements ( dance, film and visual arts).
It takes place in the last two weeks of June, held in parallel with the New York offshoots of the Newport Jazz Festival ( until 2008 as the JVC Jazz Festival).
Inspired by the studio Rivbea of Sam Rivers in the 1970s and the Sound Unity Festival in 1984 and 1988 it was founded by dancer and choreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker 1996. She had led the Improvisers Collective in the previous two years. As a wearer of the festival acts, founded by Nicholson nonprofit organization Arts for Art in the Council also sit the jazz bassist William Parker, husband of Patricia Nicholson Parker and ex- musician from Rivbea, and drummer Whit Dickey.
The festival took place over time in different places, including in the New Age Cabaret ( the former Electric Circus Nightclub ), the Youth Center at St. Patrick's Cathedral and St. Nicholas of Myra in the Church, various cultural centers and Knitting Factory. They reject commercial sponsors, but get some money from the city's cultural promotion. 2012 took the Vision Festival in roulette instead, with performances and Others by Paul Dunmall and Mark Dresser.
This included performances by 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 (which at the festival in 2011 an award for his life's work received ), Cat Power, Louis Moholo on. 2004 Reunion of free jazz trio Revolutionary Ensemble Leroy Jenkins, Sirone and Jerome Cooper from the 1970s took place.
Disco Graphical 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
- 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)
- Viriditas Trio: 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), Joëlle Léandre with Marilyn Crispell, Roy Campbell, Mat Maneri