Vision Festival 16 Opening Night; Echoes of Ascension, Marion Brown and John Tchicai.

Source: Chris Rich
June 4, 2011
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Having covered the Panel Discussion for Sunday the music needs its due.

Where else but the Vision Festival, in the US at least, would you find a night given to two participants in that legendary extended fanfare the world knows as Ascension. One still works among us,

John Tchicai

saxophone
1936 - 2012

" data-original-title="" title="">John Tchicai, and the other left us since Vision Festival last conveved.

Marion Brown

saxophone, alto
1931 - 2010

" data-original-title="" title="">Marion Brown was a wonder. He was among the early inventors of mixed medium work incorporating poetry, visual arts and the timbres of alto saxophone and flute. He was most avid to work with early explorers from the AACM when they began to leave Chicago.

He had a particularly expansive relationship with

Wadada Leo Smith

trumpet
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Wadada Leo Smith when both lived along different parts of the Connecticut River valley. They collaborated on a memorable run of Impulse releases, a favor passed from Coltrane to Wadada carried by Mr. Brown.

Marion Brown was also a rigorous ethnomusicologist and had an elaborate correspondence with Kwabena Nketia from Ghana.

They worked out a number of specific features generally common to nearly all African and African Diaspora musical forms. While anyone is welcome to incorporate them from any culture, the combination creates recognizable sonic signatures and suggests patterns of relationship between the Mother Land and the New World.

Among these are the use of hocquet, poly rhythm and poly meter, ululation and sonic texture or buzz called the mirliton effect. All in all, it is a very useful orientation and is among his many under appreciated contributions.

In the Main Stage

6:00PM to 6:15PM Invocation Patricia Parker,

Fay Victor

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Fay Victor,

Kyoko Kitamura

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Kyoko Kitamura,

Jean Carla Rodea

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Jean Carla Rodea,

William Parker

bass
b.1952

" data-original-title="" title="">William Parker,

Michael Wimberly

percussion

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Wimberly

6:15PM to 7:00PM Blood Trio

Whit Dickey

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Whit Dickey,

Sabir Mateen

saxophone, tenor
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Sabir Mateen and

Michael Bisio

bass, acoustic

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Bisio

7:15PM to 8:00PM The GROUP Tribute to Marion Brown & Billy Bang.

D.D. Jackson

piano
b.1967

" data-original-title="" title="">D.D. Jackson (piano),

Hamiet Bluiett

saxophone, baritone
1940 - 2018

" data-original-title="" title="">Hamiet Bluiett (baritone sax),

Ahmed Abdullah

trumpet
b.1947

" data-original-title="" title="">Ahmed Abdullah (trumpet)

Bob Stewart

tuba
b.1945

" data-original-title="" title="">Bob Stewart (tuba)

Charles Burnham

violin

" data-original-title="" title="">Charles Burnham (violin)

Andrew Cyrille

drums
b.1939

" data-original-title="" title="">Andrew Cyrille (drums)

9:15PM to 10:00PM Tchicai's Ascension Unending In the footsteps of John Coltrane. John Tchicai (sax),

Alex Weiss

saxophone
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Alex Weiss (sax),

Garrison Fewell

guitar
1953 - 2015

" data-original-title="" title="">Garrison Fewell (guitar),

Rosie Hertlein

violin

" data-original-title="" title="">Rosie Hertlein (violin), Dmitry Ishenko (bass),

Ches Smith

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Ches Smith (drums)

10:15PM to 11:00PM Tony Malaby's Tamarindo Trio.

Tony Malaby

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Tony Malaby (sax)

William Parker

bass
b.1952

" data-original-title="" title="">William Parker (bass)

Tom Rainey

drums
b.1957

" data-original-title="" title="">Tom Rainey (drums)

Abrons Art Center Downstairs

8:00PM to 8:30PM Stephen Haynes & Parrhesia.

Stephen Haynes

cornet
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Stephen Haynes (trumpet, cornets, flugelhorn)

Joe Morris

bass, acoustic
b.1955

" data-original-title="" title="">Joe Morris (electric guitar)

Warren Smith

drums
b.1934

" data-original-title="" title="">Warren Smith (drums and percussion)

8:45PM to9:15PM David Henderson & Bob Marshall. David Henderson (poetry) Bob Marshall (drums)

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