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Vision Festival: Jaimie Branch / Cooper-Moore / New World Pygmies / Oliver Lake Big Band

Monday, May 28, 20186:00 pm

6:00pm — Fly or Die
7:00pm — Cooper-Moore
8:00pm — Julie Ezelle Patton
8:30pm — New World Pygmies
9:30pm — Oliver Lake Big Band

Fly or Die
Jaimie Branch – Trumpet
Lester St. Louis – Cello
Anton Hatwich – Bass
Chad Taylor – Drums

Cooper-Moore – Solo Piano

Julie Ezelle Patton – Poetry
Nasheet Waits – Drums
Ken Filiano – Bass
Paul Van Curen – Guitar

New World Pygmies
Jemeel Moondoc – Alto Sax
Hamid Drake – Drums
William Parker – Bass

Oliver Lake Big Band
SAXOPHONES: Oliver Lake, Bruce Williams, James Stewart, Alex Harding,
Darius Jones and Mike Lee
TRUMPETS: Josh Evans, Freddie Hendrix, Nabate Isles, Greg Glassman
TROMBONES: Aaron Johnson, Al Patterson, Terry Greene II, Stafford Hunter
PIANO: Yoichi Uzeki
BASS: Robert Sabin
DRUMS: Chris Beck

*Roulette has a limited number of complimentary tickets to offer members, set aside on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you are a member and would like to use a free entry pass for a Vision Festival show, please contact Emily Bookwalter at emily@roulette.org, or at 917-267-2440.

The Vision Festival is the world’s premier celebration of boundless improvised art. Now in it’s 23rd year, this festival of music, dance, poetry, and visual art is heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times). Legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities will perform 30 sets over six nights.

Closing night features rising trumpet star Jaimie Branch’s signature Fly or Die quartet; solo piano by 2017 lifetime achievement honoree Cooper-Moore; poet Julie Ezelle Patton; Jemeel Moondoc with William Parker and Hamid Drake; and
Oliver Lake’s 17 member powerhouse big band.

Founded in 1996, festival presenter Arts For Art (AFA) is a New York City based tax exempt organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of free jazz — an American indigenous art form in which improvisation is principle.

The festival is made possible in part thanks to public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Support through New Music USA’s NYC New Music Impact Fund is made possible with funding from The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Vision Festival Live at Roulette May 28, 2018

Vision Festival: Jaimie Branch / Cooper-Moore / New World Pygmies / Oliver Lake Big Band

Monday, May 28, 20186:00 pm

6:00pm — Fly or Die
7:00pm — Cooper-Moore
8:00pm — Julie Ezelle Patton
8:30pm — New World Pygmies
9:30pm — Oliver Lake Big Band

Fly or Die
Jaimie Branch – Trumpet
Lester St. Louis – Cello
Anton Hatwich – Bass
Chad Taylor – Drums

Cooper-Moore – Solo Piano

Julie Ezelle Patton – Poetry
Nasheet Waits – Drums
Ken Filiano – Bass
Paul Van Curen – Guitar

New World Pygmies
Jemeel Moondoc – Alto Sax
Hamid Drake – Drums
William Parker – Bass

Oliver Lake Big Band
SAXOPHONES: Oliver Lake, Bruce Williams, James Stewart, Alex Harding,
Darius Jones and Mike Lee
TRUMPETS: Josh Evans, Freddie Hendrix, Nabate Isles, Greg Glassman
TROMBONES: Aaron Johnson, Al Patterson, Terry Greene II, Stafford Hunter
PIANO: Yoichi Uzeki
BASS: Robert Sabin
DRUMS: Chris Beck

*Roulette has a limited number of complimentary tickets to offer members, set aside on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you are a member and would like to use a free entry pass for a Vision Festival show, please contact Emily Bookwalter at emily@roulette.org, or at 917-267-2440.

The Vision Festival is the world’s premier celebration of boundless improvised art. Now in it’s 23rd year, this festival of music, dance, poetry, and visual art is heralded as “one of New York’s most essential art events” (New York Times). Legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities will perform 30 sets over six nights.

Closing night features rising trumpet star Jaimie Branch’s signature Fly or Die quartet; solo piano by 2017 lifetime achievement honoree Cooper-Moore; poet Julie Ezelle Patton; Jemeel Moondoc with William Parker and Hamid Drake; and
Oliver Lake’s 17 member powerhouse big band.

Founded in 1996, festival presenter Arts For Art (AFA) is a New York City based tax exempt organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of free jazz — an American indigenous art form in which improvisation is principle.

The festival is made possible in part thanks to public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Support through New Music USA’s NYC New Music Impact Fund is made possible with funding from The Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Vision Festival Live at Roulette May 28, 2018