Visions: Music from the inaugural International Music Creators + Collaborators Workshop

This week on Visions, I reflect on my week-long experience at the inaugural International Music Creators + Collaborators Workshop (IMCCW) at Bard College, created and run by Grammy-winning pianist Kris Davis and visionary pianist Angelica Sanchez.

The workshop’s faculty also included legendary musicians Taylor Ho Bynum, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Parker, Terri Lyne Carrington, and Dave Holland and Billy Hart who both played with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock among many others.

IMCCW welcomed 33 participants from around the world representing various parts of the U.S. as well as Chile, Ecuador, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, China, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Canada, Taiwan, Australia and Argentina.

This episode of Visions features music from most of the IMCCW faculty as well as one of my peers at the workshop. Check out the playlist below and listen to the episode on-demand for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

• “Judgement Day” – Rashied Ali Quintet
• “Summer Breeze” – Ramsey Lewis
• “Pettiford” – Larry Grenadier
• “I’ll Sign My Heart Away” – Angelica Sanchez
• “Five Long Years (feat. Joe Cocker)” – John Lee Hooker
• “The Bridge” – Sonny Rollins
• “Rang” – Jeff Parker
• “How’s Never?” – Dave Holland Octet
• “Death Does Not Tarnish Life’s Beauty” – Fall Raye
• “Insomniac” – Terri Lyne Carrington
• “Sympodial Sunflower (feat. Terri Lyne Carrington)” – Kris Davis
• “El Junque” – Billy Hart
• “Wave” – Ahmad Jamal
• “Don’t Mess with Mr. T” – Regina Carter
• “Soul Vibrations” – Dorothy Ashby