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From NYTimes.com:

Thursday night’s Vision Festival bill at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side included a panegyric for the living, in the form of a lifetime-achievement celebration for the pianist and composer Muhal Richard Abrams; a eulogy for the deceased, in the form of a 10-minute silence for the saxophonist Fred Anderson, who died earlier in the day; and a handful of performances that were all at least reaching for something beyond formal excellence. It wasn’t all great, but there was a lot beyond notes to consider. Each part of the night — including the silence — contained stamina and resistance and a kind of morality.

Now 79, Mr. Abrams helped found the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in Chicago in 1965. (After moving here, he started up the New York chapter in 1983.) It was and is a collective, nonprofit organization, urging the writing of original music, challenging any perceived boundaries of what jazz can be or include, creating performance opportunities for its members and educating young musicians from the South Side of Chicago in an alternative academy.

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From Toronto Jazz, the Next Wave track features creative improvisers each day in the coming week.

Eric Boeren Quartet / Kyle Brenders Quartet opening
Sun Jun 27 8:00pm

Random Access Unplugged w/ rEDwIREaRCHaNGEL opening
Mon Jun 28 8:00pm

Element Choir & Barnyard Drama w/ the Swyves opening
Tue Jun 29 8:00pm

Fred Frith w/ Octopus opening
Fri Jul 2 8:00pm

Doran-Stucky-Studer & Tacuma Play Music of Jimi Hendrix w/ NKLS Quartet opening
Sat Jul 3 8:00pm

From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

June 24, 2010
Lifetime Trio, Abrons Arts Center
John Ehlis, Rob Garcia, Joseph Jarman
Muhal Richard Abrams Solo, Abrons Arts Center
Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams Trio, Abrons Arts Center
Muhal Richard Abrams, Harrison Bankhead, Ari Brown

June 23, 2010
Broken Flowers, Abrons Arts Center
Patricia Nicholson, Matthew Shipp
In Order To Survive, Abrons Arts Center
Lewis Barnes, Rob Brown, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake, William Parker
Rob Brown’s New Quartet, Abrons Arts Center
Rob Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Chris Lightcap, Matt Moran
Stomp It!, Abrons Arts Center
Whit Dickey, Matthew Shipp
The Blues Escaped, Abrons Arts Center
Roy Campbell, Hamid Drake, Jason Kao Hwang, Kidd Jordan, William Parker
Vision Festival XV Opening Ceremony, Abrons Arts Center
Rob Brown, Roy Campbell, Cooper-Moore, Hamid Drake, Jason Kao Hwang, Kidd Jordan, Patricia Nicholson, William Parker

June 21, 2010
Roy Campbell Trio, Campos Plaza Playground
Roy Campbell, William Parker, Michael Wimberly
William Parker’s Little Huey Band, Campos Plaza Playground
Asim Barnes, Lewis Barnes, Rob Brown, Gerald Cleaver, Shayna Dulberger, William Parker, Jean Carla Rodea
Bradley Farberman Ensemble, The Local 269
Chris DiMeglio, Bradley Farberman, Jason Kao Hwang, Dave Miller, Jared Pauley, Dan Tamberelli
Crackleknob, The Local 269
Mary Halvorson, Reuben Radding, Nate Wooley
Darius Jones Trio, The Local 269
Darius Jones, Adam Lane, Jason Nazary
The Lowest Common Denominator, The Local 269
Tim Berne, Matt Mitchell, Herb Robertson, Dan Weiss

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From NYTimes.com:

BANG ON A CAN MARATHON (Sunday) Every year the organizers of the Bang on a Can Marathon promise a full day of eclectic, genre-blurring contemporary music, and every year they deliver. The free 12-hour 2010 marathon runs from noon to midnight on Sunday at the World Financial Center Winter Garden, with performers ranging from the Jack Quartet to the Signal contemporary music ensemble. Winter Garden, World Financial Center , West Street, south of Vesey Street, Lower Manhattan , (212) 417-7050 , artsworldfinancialcenter.com ; free. (Anthony Tommasini)

BARGEMUSIC (Friday) At Brooklyn’s floating concert hall, the violinist Joel Pitchon, the cellist Ronald Feldman, the pianist Doris Stevenson and the clarinetist Paul Green play contemporary works by Paul Schoenfield, David Schiff and Shulamit Ran – all interesting composers – and Mendelssohn’s exciting Piano Trio in D minor. At 8 p.m., Bargemusic , Fulton Ferry Landing, next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn , (718) 624-2083 , bargemusic.org ; $35; $30 for 65+, $15 students. (Tommasini)

COUNTER)INDUCTION (Sunday) A string trio from this inventive new-music ensemble performs Xenakis’s “Ikhoor,” Kyle Bartlett’s “Sown Under the Skin of Her Hands,” Eric Moe’s “And Life Like Froth Doth Throb” and works by Paul Epstein and Robert Karpay. At 4 p.m., Roger Smith Hotel , 501 Lexington Avenue, at 47th Street , (212) 755-1400, counterinduction.com ; $15; for reservations, e-mail rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com. (Kozinn)

DU YUN (Monday) Du Yun is equally at home as a composer of rigorous modernist works, an adventurous electronic-pop singer-songwriter and a flamboyant performance artist, which makes her exactly the kind of versatile, eclectic young creative type the 21st-Century Schizoid Music series at the Cornelia Street Café was created for. Joining her are Gareth Flowers, a trumpeter, and Phil Moffa, an electronic musician. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café , 29 Cornelia Street, West Village , (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com ; $10 cover, with a one-drink minimum. (Smith)

ICE AND JACK QUARTET (Tuesday) Before their guest appearances this summer’s renowned Darmstadt Contemporary Music Festival in Germany, the International Contemporary Ensemble and the exciting young players of the Jack Quartet present a bracing joint program at Le Poisson Rouge. At 7:30 p.m. Le Poisson Rouge , 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, West Village , (212) 505-3474 , lepoissonrouge.com ; $10 in advance; $12 day of show. (Tommasini)

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From NYTimes.com:

DUAL IDENTITY (Sunday) The alto saxophonists Rudresh Mahanthappa and Steve Lehman travel roughly the same orbit in jazz’s progressive solar system, and as the name of this quintet implies, their aesthetic kinship runs deep. This is the release party for a self-titled debut for the group, now out on the Clean Feed label. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village , (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $20, members $10. (Chinen)

TOMAS FUJIWARA AND TAYLOR HO BYNUM (Thursday) Mr. Bynum, a cornetist, and Mr. Fujiwara, a drummer, engage in a duologue crackling with improvisational energy but guided by compositional prescription. They have an estimable new album – “Stepwise” (NotTwo Records), their second release as a duo – from which they’ll draw here. At 10 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village , thestonenyc.com; $10. (Chinen)

MALABY, MOTIAN, SANCHEZ, MONDER (Friday) Tony Malaby is a tenor and soprano saxophonist equally capable of focused tension and wild abandon. He’ll be free to take it in any direction he wants with this collective, featuring Paul Motian, a masterly drummer; Ben Monder, a fluidly articulate guitarist; and Angelica Sanchez, a restive pianist (and Mr. Malaby’s partner by marriage). At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village , (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $20 cover, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)

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