Vision Festival Celebrates Jazz, Both Past and Future

From The New York Times:

But in the coming and going of many thousands of tomorrows, a movement that once touted brave ideas about the future can now seem increasingly concerned with the past. This is healthy and reasonable; it supports the notion of an aesthetic continuum. Nowhere does this all come more into focus than at the Vision Festival, an essential summit of experimental jazz and related undercurrents in poetry, dance and visual art, now underway at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village. Presented by the nonprofit Arts for Art, with support from various foundations but no major corporate sponsors, the festival unfolds every year as both a marathon of forward-thinking music and a series of earnest observances — tributes to the elders, requiems for the departed.