Vision Festival Healing Soul

​Streaming October 8 - 12, 2020

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Vision Festival Healing Soul

We are very excited to present a special online edition of the Vision Festival: Healing Soul. On October 8 it will be streamed from Firehouse 12 in New Haven, CT, and October 9-12 Vision Festival: Healing Soul will feature music, poetry, streamed live from  La Plaza, The Clemente in New York City.

These performances feature world-class FreeJazz artists as they make a creative statement to uplift, move hearts, and give voice for racial and economic justice.

In compliance with CDC and New York City guidelines, we are able to accommodate a very limited number of socially distanced in-person attendees for the performances at the Clemente. If you are interested in attending live, contact todd@artsforart.org
Amina Claudine Myers
Amina Claudine Myers by Robert Sutherland-Cohen

Watch On Demand

Performances from Vision Festival: Healing Soul are now available to watch on demand!
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Go to our Vimeo On Demand page to rent all videos from the festival now. 

Donate

Your donations make this event possible, and work to ensure that FreeJazz arts remain diverse and accessible. AFA is committed to respecting artists and paying performers guaranteed fees.
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Support for Vision Festival Healing Soul is provided by
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Presented with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. | Additional support provided by Council Members Margaret Chin and Carlina Rivera, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, Epstein Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and The New York Community Trust NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund

Thursday, October 8
Streaming Online from Firehouse 12

7pm EDT
​Wadada Leo Smith Solo
co-produced with Firehouse 12
Wadada Leo Smith - trumpet, piano
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Wadada Leo Smith, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser is one of the most acclaimed creative artists of his times, both for his music and his writings. Smith’s solo creative music practice has been evolving since the beginning of his career, with 2017’s Solo: Reflections And Meditations on Monk being his most recent solo recording.
8pm EDT
Jazz Response to Humanity in Crisis - in and outside of the Jazz Community
A Roundtable discussion with William Parker, Amirtha Kidambi, Fay Victor, Arturo O'Farrill, Lee Mixashawn Rozie, and JD Allen. Moderated by Patricia Parker.

Friday, October 9
Streaming Online from the Clemente

5pm EDT
The Healing Force
​Patricia Nicholson - director, text, movement
Ellen Christi - voice
Jean Carla Rodea - voice
Amirtha Kidambi - voice
Andrea Wolper - voice
Ava Mendoza - guitar
Val Jeanty - percussion
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Healing Force is what comes through us as we open ourselves to the Spirit.  We all need to stay healthy in body, mind and spirit.  Today this is a great challenge, but with the spirit flowing through us, we hope to heal our broken hearts.  
6pm EDT
Afro-Algonquin Trio
Lee Mixashawn Rozie - reeds, mandolin, voice
Rick Rozie - bass
​Royal Hartigan - drums
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Afro-Algonquin began in the 1970s with the intent to celebrate the fusion of Afro-American and Indigenous music of the Americas. Today, the concept has expanded to embrace full the Atlantic World (the Americas, Africa, Europe and the various fusions of these cultures overtime). Resulting in Indigenous to Bebop, Conga to Funk, Ragtime to notime, and music that freely spans styles and labels driven by the inner pulse of creativity that we call jazz.
7pm EDT
Oliver Lake Organ Quartet
Oliver Lake - alto sax
Jared Gold - organ
Freddie Hendrix - trumpet
Chris Beck - drums
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Legendary composer, multi-instrumentalist, painter, and poet Oliver Lake presents his unconventional organ quartet – exploring freebop, funk, jazz and avant-musical conversations.

Saturday, October 10
​Streaming Online from the Clemente

4pm EDT
Lewis / Lopez / Marcelo / Waits
James Brandon Lewis - tenor saxophone
Brandon Lopez - bass
Alexis Marcelo - piano
Nasheet Waits - drums
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Due to unforeseen circumstances, Hamid Drake will not be performing. Drummer Nasheet Waits will be joining the group.
 5pm EDT
Fay Victor's Mutations for Justice
Fay Victor - voice, compositions
Mazz Swift - violin
​Chris Williams - trumpet
Luke Stewart - bass
Jason Nazary - drums
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Mutations for Justice are a series of small composition mantras or ‘memes’ out of the need to articulate political ideas in a minimalist repetitive framework further developed through improvisation. Chanting and utilizing protest music as a mutable entity to change how we see. These pieces will mingle with a fantastic group of improvisors adding their personal spin on the Mutations.
6pm EDT
Amina Claudine Myers Trio
Amina Claudine Myers - piano, organ, voice
Jerome Harris - bass, voice
​Reggie Nicholson - drums
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Amina Claudine Myers comes from a background steeped in the blues and gospel. She was a founding member of the AACM, and took the new freedom approach to making music, while staying close to her roots. Her trio with Jerome Harris and Reggie Nicholson has been one of the mainstays of her 50+ years in creative music. She will receive the Lifetime Achievement award at the Vision Festival in 2021.

Sunday, October 11
Streaming Online from the Clemente

4pm EDT
Andrew Cyrille Quartet
Bill Frisell - guitar
David Virelles - piano
Ben Street - bass
Andrew Cyrille - drums
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Renowned drummer Andrew Cyrille, 2019 Vision Festival Lifetime Achievement award honoree, leads his all-star quartet featuring guitar luminary Bill Frisell, one of the most sought-after guitar voices in contemporary music; highly in-demand bassist Ben Street; and renowned Cuban-born pianist David Virelles.
5:30pm EDT
Tyehimba Jess
​Tyehimba Jess - poetry
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Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
6pm EDT
Black Host
Gerald Cleaver - drums
Darius Jones - alto sax
Brandon Seabrook - guitar
Cooper-Moore - piano
​Brandon Lopez - bass
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Gerald Cleaver's Black Host brings forth original compositions that blend modern jazz, free music, psych, post-punk and electrified noise with painstaking detail and heady abandon. A reverb-drenched and incisive stew of rhapsodic piano, searing alto and fractured guitar over rhythms that are alternately chunky and airy, rendered with a tremendous live energy.

Monday, October 12
​Streaming Online from the Clemente

4pm EDT
David Murray Trio
David Murray - tenor sax, bass clarinet
Luke Stewart - bass
Ronnie Burrage - drums
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One of the greatest tenor sax and bass clarinet players of his generation, David Murray has performed in ensembles of all sizes, from the fabled World Saxophone Quartet to his own Octets and Big Bands. Here he presents a new trio configuration, with bassist Luke Stewart, and drummer Ronnie Burrage.
 5:30pm EDT
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - poetry
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A writer, vocalist, and sound artist, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of TwERK (Belladonna, 2013); three chapbooks which include Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna Press), and the album, Televisíon.
6pm EDT
In Order to Survive Quintet
William Parker - bass
Rob Brown - alto sax
​James Brandon Lewis - tenor sax
Matthew Shipp - piano
Gerald Cleaver - drums
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The music of In Order To Survive is deeply rooted in the concept of vision. In this music I hear the history, the mystery and the now, all existing and vanishing at the same time. Everything is kept together by the undertow of this luminous lyricism that is ever present. The main force in playing this music is having the ability to feel the pain of all who suffer. To feel it as if it were happening to us; not resting until it ceases to be. Making sure that each sound that comes from your instrument is directed and filled with the strongest truth that exists.
Performances from Vision Festival: Healing Soul are now available to rent on demand! This is your opportunity to catch the performances you missed, or to relive your favorite moments from the original livestream. View excerpts from each performance below.

Individual videos are $7 and the complete festival is $45.
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If you have questions or trouble viewing please reach out to us at info@artsforart.org.

About the Vision Festival

Founded in 1996, the Vision Festival is New York City's longest continuously running jazz festival.  This festival of music, dance, poetry, and visual art is heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times). Performances feature legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities and include Lifetime Achievement honorees like Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille, Dave Burrell, Peter Brötzmann, and Milford Graves. Promoting free jazz as a multidisciplinary aesthetic, the festival also features leading figures in dance, poetry, visual art, and thought. 

The special edition Vision Festival: Healing Soul will take place through professionally recorded pay-per-view online livestreaming for $15 per night. Streams will be available to view for 24 hours once they go live. You will receive the access link to watch within 24 hours before the event begins.
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Public Health Precautions
We are following recommendations laid out by NY State for outdoor gatherings. Seating will be fixed and socially distanced. Face masks are required at all times and we will provide extras, as well as hand sanitizer stations. Musical equipment will be sanitized between performances. We are grateful to attendees for helping us maintain safety within our present public health context, and look forward to holding meaningful shared listening space together.

Please stay home if you are feeling sick. For more information about COVID-19, check the CDC website.

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