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Highlights from the 2015 Vision Festival

Highlights from the 2015 Vision Festival, held in Manhattan, New York City, with performances from Roscoe Mitchell and strings player Jason Kao Hwang's Sing House.

Highlights from the 2015 Vision Festival, held in Manhattan, New York City - a celebration of all things avant-garde and unconventional, which marks its 20th anniversary this year.

Standout performances include the premiere of Peak/Abyss, a new work by free jazz woodwinds player and Art Ensemble of Chicago co-founder, Roscoe Mitchell, featuring trumpeter Hugh Ragin, trombonist and percussionist Tyshawn Sorey, keyboardist Craig Taborn and drummer Kikanju Baku. The five men combine to thrilling effect, conjuring atonal soundscapes punctuated by gusts of frantic free-blowing.

Also in the programme is music from improvising violinist and viola-player Jason Kao Hwang and his Sing House quintet, plus insight into the festival from jazz critic, musician and poet Daniel Spicer who was in New York this year to watch it all unfold. He joins Jez Nelson in the studio.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 12 Oct 2015 23:00

Music Played

  • J=J

    Permutation

  • Jason Kao Hwang's Sing House Quintet

    No Such Thing

  • Jason Kao Hwang's Sing House Quintet

    When, What, Could

  • Darius Jones Quartet & Emilie Lesbros

    I Can't Keep From Weeping

    • Le bebe de Brigitte (Lost In Translation).
    • AUM Fidelity.
  • Roscoe Mitchell Trio

    Untitled Improvisation

  • Conversation Trio

    Untitled Improvisation

  • Marilyn Crispell & Gerry Hemingway

    Waterwisp

    • Table Of Changes.
    • Intakt.

Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell
Photo by Dave Kaufman 漏 2015

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 Oct 2015 23:00

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