STEVEN SILVERMAN, a native of Washington D.C., has performed extensively as a pianist and harpsichordist in solo, chamber, and concerto appearances throughout the United States and at the prestigious Salle Cortot in Paris, France. The New York Times called Mr. Silverman's New York solo piano debut "a splendid affair...his playing had dimension, atmosphere, energy and discipline -- wedded to a sense of rhythm that would not quit.” Bernard Holland, reviewing Mr. Silverman's 1988 New York recital in the Times, said that "it took only a few bars to hear that he is a sound and thoughtful musician, and his recital Saturday gave pleasure." The Washington Post commented that "his playing was blessed by warmth, intelligence, and unshakable ability to capture the essence of the music." The Alexandria Gazette remarked that "Steven Silverman's offering was all that a piano recital can be: an absorbing program executed with technical perfection and individual style." Mr. Silverman performs not only the standard piano literature, but also memorable but less-performed works including both of Charles Ives' Piano Sonatas, Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata, the De Fall harpsichord concerto, and the complete Goyescas of Granados. Mr. Silverman holds the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Michigan. His teachers include Eugene Bossart, Charles Crowder, Benning Dexter, Ann Schein, and the great pianist Andrejz Wasowski.

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Tonight these musicians will perform in duos and trios for the first time together!

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FLY MAGIC is the band of saxophonist-composer Timo Vollbrecht. Based out of New York and with roots in Berlin’s progressive music scene, he creates a magical blend of emotional intensity and vivacious energy, resulting in a genuine sound that often depicts the sensation of flying. The band transcends the limitations of musical genre by combining elements from jazz, post-rock, minimalism, folk, improv and experimental soundscapes.

At Cornelia Street, FLY MAGIC is presenting their brand-new album “Faces in Places”, a collection of musical portraits inspired by people from nine different countries.

”Luminously fine German saxophonist-bandleader […] blessed with fluidity and intricate twists” - New York City Jazz Record

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STREAMING LINK: https://youtu.be/k4nNlsuJGXg

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TONEWHEEL is a quintet based in New York City, led by bassist-composer Leo Sherman. The project is inspired by stories: new and old, factual and fictional. The stories range from simple, like the feeling of take-off on a plane, to far-reaching travels of the imagination. Each piece is programmatic and features the instrumentalists as characters, the melodies and song structure as the plot, and the harmonic language as a setting.

"Leo Sherman, who I have had the pleasure of working with, not only swings hard but has a depth of harmonic understanding and listens deeply to the musical conversation. One of the new voices on bass for the future.” -Mike Clark (Herbie Hancock, The Headhunters).

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‘Like the best fiction, it’s entirely enveloping’ - Downbeat (December, 2016) Listing as Rising Star Vibraphonist at DownBeat critic poll 2017, Yuhan Su will return to Cornelia Street Cafe presenting a series of new music inspired by dance movements and music from her upcoming record City Animals featuring a stellar line-up of musicians. Yuhan's music is innovative, emotional, cerebral and most importantly, always lyrical. Her compositions and improvisations are uniquely hers, marked with an amalgamation of complexity, intensity and emotional resonance. And though she is capable of blistering technique, she always maintains a sense of melodic lyricism and wonder in her playing. Since the release of her second record A Room Of One's Own, the album has been listed on the Best of 2016 on Downbeat magazine and received numerous music awards and nominations including the Best Jazz Album of the Year and Best Instrumentalist Award from 2016 Golden Indie Award in Taiwan. Yuhan’s new record City Animals will be released in Winter 2018 through Sunnyside Records.

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Contemporary jazz guitarist, Tom Chang leads a quintet featuring some of the finest improvisers in the New York jazz scene. The music will encompass modern jazz to contemporary classical all with a heavy emphasis on groove and melody.

"What separates these tracks from other rock-leaning cuts made by jazz musicians today? It feels authentic. And then the brief funk tune "Scatterbrain" emerges about halfway though the album, there's chicken-scratch guitar and a simple yet heavy beat that screams The Meters. But later, things get eerie, as is someone was mixing funk with a New York jazz edge. That someone was Chang." --Brad Faberman (Downbeat Mag.)

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Exciting, colorful and energetic. The Philippe Lemm Trio, comprised of Dutch drummer Philippe Lemm and American pianist and bassist Angelo Di Loreto and Jeff Koch, was voted “Best Group” at the International B-Jazz Competition as well as “Best Solist”. The group’s performance of Di Loreto’s original composition “Salt Road” earned an ASCAP Jazz Composer Award in 2013

“Stunning, beautiful, and magnificent music was performed at the 2017 Northwest Jazz Festival. An overwhelming audience favorite. The Philippe Lemm Trio are consummate musicians with intricate and exciting arrangements. One of the most refreshing jazz music to hit our festival in years!” Tony Zambito, Artistic Director North West Jazz Festival

"From the first note till the last on the edge of your seat.......mesmerized by the trio"- Erik Raayman, Draai om je ore

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Open Tabs is a quintet founded by pianist Santiago Leibson and bassist Shawn Lovato, composers “with a distinctive compositional approach and a knack for finding the right partners to bring it to life” (All About Jazz). Such partners include Eli Asher on the trumpet, Yuma Uesaka on the tenor saxophone, and drummer Mareike Wiening, all who are engaging, sensitive, and fearless improvisers. The collective uses both strict and loose composed frameworks in order to explore different contexts and modes of improvisation. This approach to composition and improvisation results in varying moments including strict rhythmic interaction, displays of dark improvised harmonic structures, and sonic hat tipping to the traditions of American improvised music.

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E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer and literary activist. He is the author of several collections of poetry and two memoirs. For fourteen years, Miller has been the editor of Poet Lore, the oldest poetry magazine published in the United States. In April 2015, Miller was inducted into the Washington, DC Hall of Fame. In 2016, he received the AWP George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature and the DC Mayor's Arts Award for Distinguished Honor. Miller currently serves on the faculty at the University of Houston/Victoria and hosts the weekly morning radio show On the Margin, which airs on WPFW-FM 89.3. The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller, published in 2016 by Willow Books, is a comprehensive collection that represents over 40 years of his career as a poet. Miller’s most recent book is If God Invented Baseball, published by City Point Press.

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New York Area native and Berklee graduate Rebecca Nicole Chubay is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter with a special love for improvisation. She brings top musicians to her project, mixing classic and contemporary jazz with the sounds of indie rock and impressionist classical music. Her lyrics express a variety of shades of the human condition.

The show will feature fully arranged versions of work from her first EP "Jazz Impressionism," as well as other original music and classic standards from around the world.

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From out of Robot Mommy’s 150 watt convectional womb come a stream of improvised algorhythmic automatons programmed to please past and future artificial aesthetes.

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