Milford Graves HeArt Quintet | Vision Festival 20 (1 of 2)

Milford Graves - drums, percussion, Charles Gayle - tenor sax, Hugh Glover - alto sax, Hugh Ragin - trumpet, William Parker - bass Milford Graves led the HeArt Quintet at the 20th annual Vision Festival, an ensemble of close collaborators including William Parker, Charles Gayle, and Hugh Glover, who is best known for performing with Graves throughout the ‘70s and documented on the recording Bäbi. From the Festival program: Graves is a renaissance man whose original drumming is rooted in african and Caribbean rhythms. His scientific research on the effect of rhythm on the heart translates into music that moves and challenges. The members of Graves’ heart Quartet understand that rhythm is healing when it comes from the body’s rhythms and that music is most powerful when it is in tune with the heart. Filmed and recorded July 9, 2015 for AFA Vision Festival 20 at Judson Memorial Church, NYC. Support Arts for Art: https://www.artsforart.org/support​ Please subscribe to the AFA / Vision YouTube channel for the best in Free music and arts: https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtsforArt?... Milford Graves (b. 1941, Jamaica, Queens) is a percussionist, acupuncturist, herbalist, martial artist, programmer, and professor. A pioneer of free Jazz, Graves was a member of the New York Art Quartet, whose iconic first recording in 1964 featured LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) reading his poem "Black Dada Nihilismus." In 1967, he played at John Coltrane’s funeral. A consummate autodidact with a syncretic approach, Graves invented a martial art form called Yara based on the movements of the Praying Mantis, African ritual dance, and Lindy Hop in 1972. Shortly thereafter, Graves joined the Black Music Division at Bennington College, where he taught for 39 years and is now Professor Emeritus. In 2000 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and began to study human heart vibrations to better understand music’s healing potential, and in 2015 he received the Doris Duke Foundation Impact Award. He is the subject of a critically acclaimed, feature-length documentary, Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018), directed by his former student, Jake Meginsky, with Neil Young. https://www.milfordgraves.com/​ Learn more at our website: https://www.artsforart.org/​ Filmed by Moon Lasso and Don Mount. Video editing by Moon Lasso http://moonlasso.com/​ Sound by Stephen Schmidt. #ArtsforArt #AFA #freejazz #freeimprovisation #jazzdrums #MilfordGraves #Gravesdrums #CyrilleGraves, #Dialogueofthedrums #polyrhythm #CharlesGayle #HughGlover #TedDaniels #WilliamParker