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From Music and More:
Donny McCaslin – Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf Records, 2011)
Brad Shepik Quartet – Across the Way (Songlines, 2011)
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Yet another fest announcement, this time for RIO 2011. The initial lineup follows.
ARNO (be)
Christian VANDER solo (fr)
UNIVERS ZERO + PRESENT + ARANIS “Once Upon a Time in Belgium”
ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT (fi)
VIALKA (ch)
YUGEN (it)
GARGANTUA (pl)
PANZERBALLETT (de)
JACK DUPON (fr)
GRUMPF Quartet (fr)
From Dusted:
Artist: Scorch Trio
Album: Melaza
Label: Rune GrammofonArtist: Odean Pope
Album: Universal Sounds
Label: PorterArtist: Tim Hecker
Album: Ravedeath, 1972
Label: Kranky
This year’s Vision Festival has been announced:
Arts for Art announces the 16th annual Vision Festival, New York’s premiere multidisciplinary celebration of creative jazz, dance, poetry and visual arts. It will run from Monday June 6th to Sunday June 12th at the Abrons Art Center (466 Grand Street), a venue dedicated to the presentation of innovative artists. Afternoon performances, as well as after hours conductions, will take place at Clemente Soto Velez (107 Suffolk Street). Arts for Art will present more than 40 events in total, including innovative music and dance performances, poetry readings, visual art exhibitions.
On Wednesday, June 8th, we celebrate a lifetime of achievement by the great saxophone and clarinet player, Peter Brötzmann. First European musician to be honored at the Vision Festival, Peter Brötzmann has been a leading voice in the Creative Jazz field for more than forty years. We are delighted to present his duo with drummer Hamid Drake, his quintet with Ken Vandermark, Mars Williams, Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake and his quartet with Joe McPhee, Eric Revis and Nasheet Waits. Evan Parker/ Matthew Shipp Jen Shyu
This year’s highlights include performances by the great saxophonist David S. Ware and pianist Cooper-Moore, as well as Jazz legend Kidd Jordan. The Vision Festival will also present concerts with Swedish saxophone player John Tchicai, . On Saturday, June 11th, a tribute will be paid to Marion Brown with Ahmed Abdullah, Billy Bang, Andrew Cyrille, Hamiet Bluiett, Bob Stewart and D.D. Jackson. For the first time AFA has invited another non-profit presenter to present one night at the Vision Festival. This Year the Festival of New Trumpet will curate Tuesday, June 7 at the Vision Festival!
From FT.com:
Cinc are an open improvisation trio whose performances evolve with the organic logic of an animated discussion between intimates. All three understand the idiom’s psychology and pitfalls and have deep roots in improvised music – Ken Vandermark on reeds in Chicago free jazz, drummer Paul Lytton and violinist Philipp Wachsmann in European improv. Armed with a wide palette of individual quirks, orthodox mastery and fine-tuned fluency, they instinctively know when to compliment and when to argue.
