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Vision Festival 18

AFA is excited to announce that Milford Graves will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement Award. This legendary drummer, scientist, herbalist, martial artist and acupuncturist is truly a renaissance man whose work has for too long gone either under the radar or like so many great artists, has been misunderstood. His groundbreaking work and scientific approach to understanding the effect of rhythm on the heart is matched with a belief in the power of art to move and inspire. As a drummer, his roots are in latin/Cuban rhythms, which will be reflected in the first group on June 12 where he has invited David Virelles to join him with a group of 3 other Cuban musicians. The Rest of the Night will be All Stars including Kidd Jordan, DD Jackson, Charles Gayle Roswell Rudd Amiri Baraka and William Parker!

For the first time, Arts for Art will honor a great visual artist for a lifetime of achievement at the 18th Vision Festival in June 13, 2013. Robert Janz was born in 1932 in Ireland but received his art training in the US. He was part of the 'Zen Generation' led by Pacific Coast Beat artists. His work, in his own words, is 'totemic ...haikus'. Robert Janz has lived all his art always slightly under the radar, creating powerfully resonant, nomadic, overlooked, poetic, ephemeral, challenging art. And his art and philosophy has influenced generations of artists all over the world as his nomadic life led him. It is Arts for Art's honor to shine a light on his work and creative philosophy.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 Milford Graves: A Lifetime of Achievement

7:30 Afro/Cuban Roots Milford Graves drums
David Virelles acoustic piano
Román Díaz percussions (congas, batá drums, añá), vocals
Dezron Douglas acoustic bass
Román Filiú alto saxophone

8:30 Milford Graves Transition TRIO
Milford Graves drums
D.D. Jackson piano
Kidd Jordan tenor saxophone

9:30 Milford Graves NY HeArt Ensemble
Milford Graves drums
Charles Gayle tenor saxophone
William Parker bass
Roswell Rudd trombone
Amiri Baraka poetry

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

7:00 Maria Mitchell / Terry Jenoure
Maria Mitchell dance
Terry Jenoure violin

7:45 Roy Campbell's Akhenaten Ensemble
Roy Campbell trumpet
Bryan Carrott vibes
Jason Kao Hwang violin
Hilliard Greene bass
Michael Wimberly drums

9:00 Rob Brown U_L Project
Joe McPhee trumpet, sax
Rob Brown alto saxophone
Miya Masaoka koto
Mark Helias bass
Qasim Naqvi drums

10:00 Roscoe Mitchell Trio
Roscoe Mitchell reeds
Henry Grimes bass
Tani Tabbal drums

FRIDAY, JUNE 14 A French American Connection

7:00 VOCAL-EASE
Steve Dalachinsky poetry
Didier Petit cello

7:30 Bern Nix Quartet
Bern Nix guitar
Francois Grillot bass
Matt Lavelle trumpet
Reggie Sylvester drums

8:30 East-West Collective
Didier Petit cello
Sylvain Kassap clarinets
Xu Fengxia guhzeng
Larry Ochs tenor sax
Miya Masaoka koto

9:30 The French-American Peace Ensemble
Francois Tusques piano
Louis Sclavis clarinets
Kidd Jordan tenor sax
William Parker bass
Hamid Drake drums

The East-West Collective and The French-American Peace Ensemble have been made possible through the French-American Jazz Exchange, a joint program of FACE ("French American Cultural Exchange") and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, with generous funding from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique ("SACEM"), Florence Gould Foundation, and Institut Français.

SATURDAY, JUNE 15

2 pm Visionary Youth Band coT.I.M.E. initiative bklyn / Jeff Lederer, Jessica Jones
2:30 York College Creative Ensemble - CUNY Queens / Tom Zlabinger - Director
3 pm Achievement First Middle School Band Brooklyn / Gene Baker director
3:30 All schools (80 young musicians) under direction of William Parker
with guest artist Hamid Drake

5 pm Panel on the French-American exchange of musical ideas & social, political ideals past and present
moderated by Michel Dorbon (RogueArt record label)

7:30 Tomas Fujiwara & The Hook Up
Brian Settles sax
Jonathan Finlayson - trumpet
Mary Halvorson guitar
Michael Formanek bass
Tomas Fujiwara - drums

8:45 Davis/Revis/Cyrille Trio
Kris Davis piano
Eric Revis bass
Andrew Cyrille drums

9:45 Simmons / Burrell Duo
Sonny Simmons alto saxophone
Dave Burrell piano

10:45 Reggie Workman WORKz
Reggie Workman bass
Marilyn Crispell piano
Odean Pope tenor saxophone
Tapan Modak tablas
Pheeroan akLaff - drums

SUNDAY, JUNE 16

2:00 Panel building real access to Creative Jazz

5:30 Film Butch Morris "Black February" by Vipal Monga

6:00 Inner City: Migration
Miriam Parker dance, choreographer
Jason Jordan dance
Hamid Drake drums
Jo Wood Brown art
Robert Janz guest visual artist

6:30 Oluyemi Thomas Group
Oluyemi Thomas sax
Ijeoma Thomas voice/words
Henry Grimes bass
Michael Wimberly drums

7:30 Hamiet Bluiett
Lineup TBA

8:30 Mario Pavone ARC Trio
Mario Pavone bass
Craig Taborn piano
Gerald Cleaver drums

9:30 Marshall Allen & McBrides BASS ROOTS
Christian McBride bass
Lee Smith bass
Howard Cooper bass
Marshall Allen alto saxophone

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509 Atlantic Avenue
brooklyn, NY 11217
United States

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