It happens on the Lower East Side (NYC)…
It happens once a year…
It gets bigger every year…
It features some of the most adventurous and important jazz musicians of our time…
It attracts an audience from around the world…
It lasts 11 days…
It takes place at the Abrons Arts Center plus…
… 6 other locations, inside and out…
It is a festival of music with dance, poetry, visual art and video..
It is not to be missed.
VISION FESTIVAL XV
June 20th-30th, 2010
http://www.visionfestival.org/schedule/vision15
Among other things, it happens to include a stellar line-up of great pianists; including, Muhal Richard Abrams, David Arner, Dave Burrell, Marilyn Crispell, Connie Crothers and Mathew Shipp.
David Arner performs at the Vision Festival on:
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
at:
3:00pm
with:
The Lorenzo Sanguedolce Quartet
Lorenzo Sanguedolce (tenor sax)
David Arner (piano)
Francois Grillot (contrabass)
Todd Capp (drums)
at:
The Abrons Arts Center
at the Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street (at the corner of Pitt Street)
New York‘s Lower East Side
Admission for the whole day: $25/$20 for seniors and students
(212) 598-0400
For directions, http://www.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_abt_directions
ABOUT THE LORENZO SANGUEDOLCE QUARTET
This is an engrossing and uninhibited ensemble of accomplished improvisors spanning 4 generations of jazz. All compositions are spontaneous collective improvisations noted for their free spirit as well as their intuitive cohesiveness.
Lorenzo Sanguedolce is a Brooklyn-based jazz improviser who is one of the most original voices of the younger generation tenor sax players on the Downtown NY scene today. His debut album, Live at the Yippie, with bassist Michael Bisio was released on NoBusiness Records in November 2009. He has also performed and/or recorded with Connie Crothers (p), John Zorn (as), Ken Filiano (b), Ratzo Harris (b), Carol Liebowitz (p), Kazzrie Jaxen (p), Andy Fite (g), Adam Lane (b), Nick Lyons (as), Adam Caine (g), John Wagner (d), Walter Thompson (soundpainting) and Jose Conde (voc). www.lozosax.com
Recently David Arner was a featured pianist at the Whitney Museum’s showings of the silent films by the pioneering Alice Guy Blache.
Drummer Todd Capp was a mainstay of the Downtown music scene in NYC in the 1970’s, then ran a downtown art gallery for many years, and is now back on the music scene in full force. His 1978 performance of his Improvising Orchestra at the Tanglewood Gallery Downtown, which was released on the Lucky Tiger label, is a classic today. Players included Ray Anderson (trombone), William Parker (bass) and Rashid Bakr (drums). Todd has also recorded with Gerry Hemingway (drums), Mark Dresser (bass), Reuben Radding (bass), Joe Giardullo (woodwinds), Steve Gauchi (Sax), Daniel Carter (Sax), Ras Moshe (sax) and Matt Lavelle (trumpet).
Contrabass player François Grillot has played at the jazz festivals of Nimes, Montreal, Barcelone, Palace and Fete de L’Huma in Paris, Rome and Milan. In New York he has performed at Birdland, Lenox Lounge, SOB’s, The Stone, Augies, 55 Bar, Knitting Factory, Bowery Poetry Club, Barbes, Brecht Forum, Zebulon, Tonic, Viziones and CB’s Gallery. Francois has performed with Harold Danko, Gunter Humpel, Daniel Carter, Matt Maneri, Roy Campbell, Burton Greene, Charles Gayle, Sabir Mateen, Daniel Levin, Jay Rosen and Robert Dick.
His recordings include:
2 albums on Dark Sun Records with Ed Russell in the 90’s
Dom Minasi’s Vampire’s Revenge
Matt Lavelle’s Handling the Moment (CIMP), Trumpet Rising and The Manifestation Drama
Chris Kelsey’s Renewal, Wishing You Were Here, and The Crookedest Straight Line, Volumes 1 & 2 (CIMP)
Earth People of Andre Matrinez’s Waking the Living, Simple…isn’t it!, Sky Reader, Now is Rising and Bang!
Ras Moshe’s Live Spirits Vol. 4
Thomas Reuben Group’s In Tongues and Levitation (ELM)
Michael Marcus’ The Magic Door (Not Two)