Vision Festival starts tonight

With the JVC Jazz Festival having bit the dust the Vision Festival has become the real New York Jazz Festival. This year's event honors Marshall Allen and starts tonight at the Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand St.

Host: Lewis Barnes

7:30
Opening Invocation
Hamid Drake / Patricia Nicholson / William Parker

7:30 in the Downstairs Theater
TURQUOISE BEADS by Lili White
INSTALLATION: DVD video projected on Assemblage
©2009 Lili White
DVD video; color, sound; TRT: 16.10 minutes, looped

8:15
Brass Bang
Billy Bang - violin
Ted Daniel - trumpet
James Zollar - trumpet
Ahmed Abdullah - trumpet
Dick Griffin - trombone
Russell Carter - drums

9:15
Douglas R. Ewart and Inventions
featuring:
Shaku Joseph Jarman - flute, sax, poetry
Douglas R. Ewart - winds, percussion, voice
J.D. Parran - flute, clarinets and bass sax
Donald Smith - piano
Thurman Barker - drums and vibes
Amiri Baraka - words

10:15
"Vision of New York"
video by Luciano Rossetti

10:30
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris Conducts A Chorus Of Poets and String Ensemble
"Conduction® No. 187, Erotic Eulogy"

Chorus of Poets:
Yasha Bilan, Mark Gerring, Chavisa Woods, Nora McCarthy,
Justin Carter, Alex Bilu, Helga Davis, David Devoe
String of Ensemble:
Nicole Federici, Jason kao Hwang - viola
Shawn McGloin, Jane Wang - bass
Skye Steele, Charlie Burnham - violin
Greg Heffernan, Alisa Horn - cello
Text by Allan Graubard