About this Event
Friday July 23
Pioneer Works - 159 Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY 11231
These tickets are for in-person attendance. Masks are required and will be made available. We encourage all attendees to be vaccinated or receive a negative test result at least 72 hours before you arrive.
Amina Claudine Myers Lifetime of Achievement Celebration
The Vision Festival is honored to acknowledge the important pianist, organist, composer, and singer Amina Claudine Myers for her Lifetime of Achievement. Ms. Myers comes from a background steeped in the blues and gospel, and she was also an early member of the AACM. She took the new freedom approach to her music making, yet stayed close to the roots of the music. She has mentored many young musicians around the globe, and especially for women, she has been a shining and all too rare example. She is a great artist and human being who has been giving of herself and has added so much to the important tradition of African American extended musical forms.
6:30pm The Amina Claudine Myers Voice Octet
7:30pm Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones - poetry
8:00pm Generation IV
Amina Claudine Myers – voice, piano / Richarda Abrams – voice / Pyeng Threadgill – voice / Luna Threadgill-Moderbacher - voice
9:00pm Reflections: A Portrait of Amina Claudine Myers
Documentary film by Moon Lasso, produced by Arts for Art
9:30pm The Amina Claudine Myers Trio
Amina Claudine Myers – piano, Hammond B3 / Jerome Harris - bass
Reggie Nicholson – drums
About the Vision Festival
Founded in 1996, the Vision Festival is New York City's longest continuously running jazz festival. Now in its 25th 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). Performances feature legendary and emerging stars representing the free jazz, experimental, and avant-garde communities and include Lifetime Achievement honorees like Amina Claudine Myers, Andrew Cyrille, Dave Burrell, Peter Brötzmann, and Milford Graves.
Arts for Art Mission
Arts for Art is dedicated to the exceptional creativity that originated in the African American multi-arts jazz culture that utilizes improvisation to express a larger, more positive dream of inclusion and freedom.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 65.00