BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Vision Festival at 25
The best jazz and improvised music with an adventurous spirit. Corey Mwamba previews this year’s Vision Festival – for 25 years the spiritual home of free music in New York City.
He speaks to the American pianist, poet and vocalist Amina Claudine Myers who is receiving a lifetime achievement award at the event. Amina’s expansive career has covered blues, gospel, spirituals, jazz and improv as well as theatre and choral work, and she introduces a couple of tracks from her back catalogue.
Elsewhere on the show, there’s light and exploratory improvisation that floats through the air from an ensemble put together by Torgrim Sollid, a Norwegian folk and jazz musician. And pianist Lisa Cay Miller, guitarist Vicky Mettler and bassist Raphaël Foisy-Couture spontaneously create gritty, fine-grained and revelatory music.
Produced by Gabriel Francis & Jack Howson
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
1 Mara Rosenbloom – Bird Migration Theme 2 – Take Off
2 Revival Room – April
3 Lisa Cay Miller, Vicky Mettler & Raphaël Foisy – Of A Grind
4 Muhal Richard Abrams – Swang Rag Swang (feat. Amina Claudine Myers)
5 Amina Claudine Myers – Ritual
6 Torgrim Sollid – Silent family afternoon
7 MATTERS UNKNOWN – BlindSpot (feat. Mohamed Gueye)
8 Bettina Schroeder & Tony Irving – Shatter Resistant Suite 2