Andrew Cyrille and Milford Graves | Dialogue of the Drums | Vision 24

Milford Graves and Andrew Cyrille recount stories on how they first met, and the two drummers continue a decades long collaboration with a duet at Cyrille’s Lifetime Achievement celebration at the Vision Festival, a set named for the 1974 lp “Dialogue of the Drums,“ the first release on the now legendary IPS (Institute for Percussive Studies) Records founded by Cyrille and Graves. “Andrew’s been a great friend and colleague for over 50 years. Our relationship is beyond words. It’s something special, that only comes around a few times in anyone’s life.” - Milford Graves Filmed and recorded on June 11, 2019 for AFA’s Vision Festival 24 at Roulette, Brooklyn. Please subscribe to the AFA / Vision YouTube channel for the best in Free music and arts: Support Arts for Art! Andrew Cyrille was born in Brooklyn, New York to Haitian immigrant parents. Cyrille’s Haitian backgr