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Thursday,  May 26 - 6:00PM 
A MULTILINGUAL READING (ENGLISH/ITALIAN/SICILIAN/SPANISH)
Gil Fagiani;  Marisa Frasca;  Jose' Gonzalez;  Li Yun Alvarado
Reading of Italian American and Latino Writers

East Harlem : Power to the People!
 Cover $7

Thursday,  May 26 - 8:30PM 
JEFF DAVIS BAND
Jeff Davis, drums, composition;  Tony Malaby, tenor, soprano saxophones;  Kirk Knuffke, cornet;  Jon Goldberger, guitar;  Matt Pavolka, bass
JEFF DAVIS BAND image
Drummer/composer JEFF DAVIS is known as the “propulsive force” behind a host New York mainstays. Tonight, Davis brings together New York improvising greats TONY MALABY, KIRK KNUFFKE, JON GOLDBERGER, and MATT PAVOLKA. On his debut album, We Sleep Outside, Jeff Davis showcases his command of a deeply focused and distinctly improvisational style.

Nate Chinen, of the New York Times, says that “We Sleep Outside (Loyal Label) is the restlessly episodic debut by Jeff Davis, a drummer of broad experience in left-of-center jazz circles.”

Bruce Lee Gallanter, of the Downtown Music Gallery, described Jeff Davis’ first disc as a leader as “a powerful debut from one of Downtown’s best drummers.” Davis guides his band just to the edge of chaos while at the same time exercising focus and restraint. It is this approach that results in a sound both minimalist in construction and intensely complex in approach.
 Cover $10   http://www.jeffdavisdrums.com ,  http://www.myspace.com/jeffspacedavis

Friday,  May 27 - 6:00PM 
TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE
TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE image
TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE

a one-woman musical

about one woman’s lifelong love affair… with worry.

book/lyrics and performed by Susan Bernfield

music by Rachel Peters

developed with & directed by Daniella Topol

conducting and on piano: Scott Ethier, bass: Dan Shuman, drums: Aaron Russell

$15.00 includes a drink

Friday,  May 27 - 11:00PM 
MICHAEL ATTIAS QUINTET: TWINES OF COLESION
Michaël Attias, alto saxophone;  Tony Malaby, tenor, soprano saxophones;  John Hébert, bass;  Satoshi Takeishi, drums;  Russ Lossing, piano
MICHAEL ATTIAS QUINTET: TWINES OF COLESION image
Twines of Colesion, is one of the year's standout jazz albums, an alternately gritty and romantic set, perched on the border between postbop and the avant-garde. (TIME OUT NY)

They're not twines, exactly, but long, thick ropes that bind the bandleader's sax with that of Tony Malaby. The pair circle and swoop through each other, knotting things when things need knotting, and loosening things when the binds get too tight. Their new Clean Feed disc is series of tension and release strategies, and their piano-bass-drums squad assures that those knots are anything but the square kind. (Jim Macnie, VILLAGE VOICE)
 Cover $15   http://www.michaelattias.com

Saturday,  May 28 - 6:00PM 
THE TRES AMIGOS CD RELEASE PARTY
Samuel Reider, vocals, accordion;  Justin Poindexter, vocals, guitar;  Eddie Barbash, vocals, percussion, alto saxophone
The Tres Amigos CD Release Party image
The Tres Amigos make timeless music. A tight-rope-walking blend of country-western-swing-accordion-folk, The Tres Amigos present high-energy original music and forgotten gems in bold, acrobatic performances. Behind those matching mariachi shirts are virtuosic musicians, delivering the goods in sunny three-part harmony and with all the vibe of your uncle’s old ‘45’s.

Hot on the heels of recording The Tres Amigos Sampler Platter the Tres Amigos have been burning up the pavement, delighting audiences in festival appearances and on college campuses throughout the Northeast. Recent performances include the Living Room in NYC, The Long Island Arts Council, Elvis Fest, Columbia University, and The Ed Cochran Rockabilly Battle of The Bands.

$15.00 includes a drink

Saturday,  May 28 - 11:00PM 
CHRIS LIGHTCAP'S BIGMOUTH
Tony Malaby, tenor sax;  Andrew Bishop, tenor saxophone;  Andy Milne, piano;  Gerald Cleaver, drums;  Chris Lightcap, bass
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth image
Bigmouth's recent CD, "Deluxe" was on over 20 year-end "best of" lists, including the New York Times, NPR, Jazz Times and the Village Voice. Please join them for this evening of music with special guests Andy Milne and Andrew Bishop.

"Righteous" ...NY Times

"Superb"...Wall Street Journal

"****1/2"...Downbeat
 Cover $15   http://www.chrislightcap.com

Sunday,  May 29 - 6:00PM 
POETRY
George Guida, host
Danny Cartaina;  M Noonan;  James Zimmerman
Poets displaced from Smalls gather under the fine leadership of George Guida.
 Cover $7
Sunday,  May 29 - 8:30PM 
MARK TAYLOR QUARTET CD RELEASE:"AT WHAT AGE"
Mark Taylor, french horn;  Chris Dingman, vibraphone;  Keith Witty, bass;  Tomas Fujiwara , drums
Mark Taylor Quartet CD Release:
To officially announce the release of his third CD, “At What Age” Mark Taylor serves up an interesting mix: warm brass, crystalline percussion and whatever dark woodiness Keith conjures up! The Quartet performs chamber-y, colourful sets improvised from fragments of songs and tantalizing tidbits of melody…

One of only a handful of performers to successfully integrate the notoriously difficult French Horn in jazz and improvised music, Mark has performed and recorded with an array of modern giants including: Max Roach, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Henry Threadgill.

Taylor's Horn sound has been described as "rapturous" and "golden" (Coda Magazine); "as fluid and limpid as (the) flute, and as gnarly as (the) alto." (JazzTimes). His innovative playing has won him recognition by such legendary artists as Max Roach, who said, "Mark Taylor is a virtuoso instrumentalist...there is no one dealing with the french horn or the music the way Mark is doing."

"Taylor plays French horn boldly and lyrically..." — Bob Blumenthal, Atlantic Monthly
 Cover $10   http://www.marktaylormusic.net

Monday,  May 30 - 8:30PM 
JEN SHYU:JADE TONGUE
Jen Shyu, compositions, vocals, piano, moon lute, erhu, lakado, dance;  David Binney, alto saxophone;  Thomas Morgan, bass;  Dan Weiss, drums
Jen Shyu:Jade Tongue image Miranda Lichtenstein
Known mostly for her singing with Steve Coleman & Five Elements, vocalist/composer/multi-instrumentalist/dancer Jen Shyu performs works from both her groundbreaking solo project “Inner Chapters” and her band Jade Tongue's repertoire to Cornelia Street Cafe for one night only Monday, May 30, 2011. Her ancestral and original song improvisations range from mysteriously dark to sensuously ecstatic for solo voice, piano, dance, er hu, Taiwanese moon lute, and East Timorese lakado in multiple languages, including English, Portuguese, Spanish, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Tetum, and Pinuyumayan (the language of a Taiwanese indigenous group also known as “Puyuma”), featuring her own lyrics as well as those of her other favorite writers. She also performs ancient and original songs on the two-stringed “gat kim” or moon lute, an authentic Taiwanese instrument, and the lakado, a traditional East Timorese bamboo instrument, both which she has been learning from elders in Taiwan and East Timor. Jen Shyu has performed and recorded internationally throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Concertizing as both soloist and bandleader in the avant-garde and creative music worlds in such venues as Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Merkin Hall, BIMHUIS in Amsterdam, Shyu has worked with innovators Anthony Braxton, Mark Dresser, Dave Burrell, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, and Dave Binney to name a few. Since graduating from Stanford University, she has been awarded fellowships to travel and do research in Cuba, Brazil, Taiwan, China, & East Timor from the Asian Cultural Council and Jerome Foundation. She is currently based in New York City.

More Info http://www.downbeat.com/digitaledition/2011/DB201104/single_page_view/23.html
 Cover $10   http://www.jenshyu.com ,  http://jenshyu.bandcamp.com

Tuesday,  May 31 - 6:00PM 
AN EVENING OF CRIMINALLY GOOD VERSE
Reed Farrel Coleman and Richie Narvaez, hosts
Jeanne Dickey;  Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson 		An Evening of Criminally Good Verse image
Contributors Jeanne Dickey and Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson join editors Reed Farrel Coleman and Richie Narvaez reading from the recently published fourth annual edition of The Lineup: Poems on Crime.

Reed Farrel Coleman is a three-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America's Shamus Award for Best Novel. He has also received the Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards, and has been twice nominated for the Edgar® Award. He teaches writing classes in mystery fiction and the novel at Hofstra University.

Jeanne Dickey's work has appeared in literary journals such as Passages North, RE:AL, Karamu, and The Good Foot. She is working on a novel, A Fanciful Glamour, which she hopes to complete by the end of the year, if not sooner. An except of that novel is forthcoming in the anthology The Unbearables Big Book of Sex.

Richie Narvaez has had work published by Mississippi Review, Murdaland, and Thrilling Detective, and in the anthologies Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Indian Country Noir, and You Don't Have a Clue. He is the editor of the online humor journal Asinine Poetry.

Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson is a Canadian currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Hart House Review, Imago, Softblow, The Toronto Quarterly, Neon, Right Hand Pointing, and the anthology Killer Verse. Her first collection of poems The Victims Of Ted Bundy: Washington State is forthcoming this winter from Jeanne Duval Editions.


 Cover $7

Tuesday,  May 31 - 8:30PM 
EMIL BIZGA QUARTET
Emil Bizga, trumpet;  Jon Davis, piano;  Joe Fitzgerald, bass;  Lieven Venke, drums
Emil Bizga Quartet image
The program consists of Emil Bizga' s own compositions, inspired by contemporary jazz Balkan folklore and Gypsy music. The music breathes of contrasting tension-filled sound collages unheard in modern jazz.

"Emil Bizga is one of the most original and dynamic trumpeters to hit the jazz scene in the last few decades. His blend of Romanian folk music with modern jazz is irresistible, like Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain it blends perfectly. I think Emil is about to emerge as a Jazz star who will definitely influence the next generation of trumpet players." Jack Kleinsinger- "Highlights in Jazz"
 Cover $10   http://www.myspace.com/emilbizga

Wednesday,  Jun 01 - 6:00PM 
FOUR SQUARE
Joey Novick, host
Ryan Paulson;  Elicit Berger;  Michele Carlo
FOUR SQUARE image
FOUR SQUARE: THERE ARE FOUR SIDES TO EVERY STORY

Four storytellers share their version of a same time-shared experience: A trip to NJ, a car crash, Lincoln Tunnel traffic, bad directions.

JOEY NOVICK: (The Liar Show, Louder Than Words stories)

RYAN PAULSON: (People's Improv Theater, Edinburgh Fringe Festival)

ELICIT BERGER: (Speakeasy Stories, Huffington Post)

MICHELE CARLO: (The Moth, Fish Out of Agua)

$15 (includes one drink)

One Shared Experience - 4 Storytellers, 4 Completely True Stories. Four Different Perspectives. Like ‘Roshomon’, only better.


 Cover $15

Wednesday,  Jun 01 - 8:30PM 
SIFTER
Kirk Knuffke, cornet;  Mary Halvorson, guitar;  Matt Wilson, drums
On June 1st Cornelia Street Cafe will present the new colabrative trio “Sifter”. The trio includes cornetist Kirk Knuffke drummer Matt Wilson and guitarist Mary Halvorson. Kirk is a fulltime member of the celebrated Matt Wilson Quartet since fall of 2009 and has been a regular sub in the Mary Halvorson Quintet since a run in July 2010 at New Yorks Roulette performance space also featuring alto saxophonist Tim Berne. The plan to have a new trio was hatched by Wilson and Knuffke while on tour with the Matt Wilson quartet. 

 Cover $10   http://www.kirkknuffke.com 		Sifter image
Thursday,  Jun 02 - 6:00PM 
PRIVATE EVENT

Our monthly Artists' Salon is postponed a week to June 9!
Thursday,  Jun 02 - 8:30PM 
SAMUEL BLASER QUARTET: CD RELEASE
Russ Lossing, piano;  Eivind Opsvik, bass;  Paul Motian, drums;  Samuel Blaser, trombone
Samuel Blaser Quartet: CD Release image Alex Troesch
Young Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser (who lives between New York and Berlin) is one of the next generation of jazz artists. Blaser leads a quartet with in-demand bassist Eivand Opsvik, up-and-coming pianist Russ Lossing and legendary drummer, Paul Motian, confirming that he is an artist abounding with daring ideas and concepts. Taking the unusual step of blending Renaissance and Baroque period music with jazz improvisation, Blaser creates with Consort In Motion a new musical world, at once oddly familiar and yet also startlingly compelling. He fashions entertaining original arrangements that emphasize his versatile playing and deep commitment to the jazz aesthetic.
 Cover $15   http://www.samuelblaser.com
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