“A CULINARY AS WELL AS A CULTURAL LANDMARK"Proclamation, City of New York, 1987 CORNELIA STREET CAFE—NOVEMBER 2010
Event: This Week at The Cornelia Street Café, November 8-14
Showtimes: Weeknights: 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM, Weekends: 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM (doors open @ 5:45 PM-early shows, & @ 8:30 PM-late shows)
Admission: Cover charge varies, when known, indicated below
November 8-14 @ Cornelia Street Cafe:
Bassist/Composer Lindsey HornerNovember 8 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10: Lindsey Horner, bass; Jimmy Cozier, saxophone; Tom Rainey, drums; Neal Kirkwood, piano. This collection of veteran New York players looks into some of the lesser known but equally as great music of Shorter, Ellington, Strayhorn, Hancock and the like. These are some of the tunes we've always wanted to play on gigs but never got the chance; music that is full of surprise and endless improvisational possibilities. The members of this band have played and are playing with everyone from The Temptations to Steve Coleman to Bill Frisell to Sam Rivers to Ani Di Franco and are all bandleaders themselves. “Horner showcases an organically eclectic way with writing and conceptualizing his music all the while dodging easy categorization."—Josef Woodard, Jazz Times
Post Folk—Sean Wayland (curated by Becca Stevens)November 10 @ 8:30, $10: Sean Wayland, piano, keys; Nate Wood, guitar; Jesske Hume, bass; Mark Guiliana, drums. ." . . Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings or Joey Calderazzo, he (Sean) is a player of the same high caliber"—AllAboutJazz
Post Folk—Nate Wood (curated by Becca Stevens)November 10 @ 10:00 PM, $10: Nate Wood, guitar, vocals; Sean Wayland, Rhodes; Jesske Hume, bass; Mark Guiliana, drums. Nate Wood is a multi-instrumentalist who draws his inspiration equally from both rock and jazz. His two albums Reliving and Fall are entirely self made, and are made possible because of his prolific experience as a supporting musician across many genres of music. The music fuses often dense harmony with simple pop melodies. Nate is backed up live by a virtuosic band, featuring Sean Wayland, Jesske Hume and Mark Guiliana. “No doubt, Wood is a wildly endowed and original musician."—Steve Krugman, hollywooddrum.com
Michael Bates' Outside SourcesNovember 11 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10: Michael Bates, double bass; Shane Endsley, trumpet; Quinsin Nachoff, saxophone, clarinet; Tom Rainey, drums. Taking equal inspiration from jazz, western classical music, and lasting modern acts as disparate as the Bad Brains and Ornette Coleman, Bates' latest recording, Clockwise, offers a panoramic view of the engaging musical mind of Michael Bates, and will prove to be a watershed for enthusiasts of cutting-edge composition and improvisation. This dynamic collection of nine original works (the latest additions to an oeuvre bulging with more than 200 compositions) blurs the line between composition and improvisation and leaves the listener in a vertiginous space where tradition teeters at the knife-edge of a modern zest for experimentation and evolution. Dave Douglas on Michael Bates' Outside Sources and Clockwise: “I whole-heartedly recommend taking special note in Outside Sources! Michael Bates is a fantastic bassist and an engaging composer." With the addition of Shane Endsley and Tom Rainey to the band this is sure to be a must-attend gig!
The Jamie Saft Special QuintetNovember 12 & 13 @ 9:00 & 10:30 PM, $15: Jamie Saft, piano; Bill McHenry, saxophones;, Duane Eubanks, trumpet; Dwayne Burno, bass; Ben Perowsky, drums. Jamie Saft is a virtuoso pianist, keyboardist, producer, and composer from New York and a mainstay on the Downtown scene. His stylistic versatility and production skills have been featured with The Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, The B-52's, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, John Adams, Donovan, Bobby Previte, Dave Douglas, Antony and the Johnsons, and scores of other artists. Saft is a core member of bands such as The Dreamers, Electric Masada, The Beta Popes, Whoopie Pie, Swami LatePlate, The Shakers and Bakers, OV, and Kalashnikov. He has composed a number of original film scores including the Oscar nominated film “Murderball," Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “God Grew Tired Of Us," and the HBO documentary film “Dear Talula." Saft has also contributed music for Nickelodeon, MTV, and A&E. Saft has released a number of albums as a leader, including Breadcrumb Sins (Tzadik), Trouble- The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik), Sovlanut (Tzadik), Astaroth- The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Masada Book II (Tzadik), and Swami LatePlate's Doom Jazz (Veal). “The dazzling array of new sonic nuance brushed by Saft captures the imagination." Echoes Magazine. “Saft demonstrates an unfettered imagination and sense of invention that truly dominate." All About Jazz
SpokeNovember 14 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10: Dan Loomis, bass; Andy Hunter, trombone; Justin Wood, saxophone; Danny Fischer, drums. This exciting quartet features some of the most inspired, adventurous improvisers of the new generation of jazz. Andy Hunter performs regularly with the Mingus Dynasty & Big Band and with Richard Bona. Danny Fischer just returned from tours with Kurt Rosenwinkel and Aaron Goldberg. And Dan Loomis co-leads The Wee Trio, and performs regularly with a host of musicians making waves on the scene. Spoke's first album creates a truly post-modern yet beautifully melodic sound incorporating diverse influences from 1960's free-bop, contemporary classical, funk, and Chinese pop music. Spoke's music lives in the intermediate territory between individual and collective improvisation, while retaining a sense of structure and tradition. “One of the most inventive records I've heard all year.'—Hot House
COMING UP at the Cornelia Street Cafe:
Happy Birthday David AmramPlus Robin Hirsch—Minister of CultureNovember 17 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10 & a one drink minimum: Happy Birthday, David Amram! The legendary composer, conductor, author, Beat legend and American icon, celebrates his 80th birthday with music, readings, tributes and bibulation. By a synchronous fluke, the Cornelia Street Cafe's Minister of Culture, Wine Czar and Dean of Faculty, Robin Hirsch, celebrates a less venerable birthday the following day and joins the festivities as MC and junior celebrant.
Hirsch, who came to the US as a Fulbright Scholar from England in 1967, founded the Cornelia Street Cafe with two other artists in 1977. He looks on the cafe as carrying on the tradition that Amram helped create in the fifties and sixties. The Cafe started out as one room with a toaster-oven. Over the last thirty-three years it has quintupled in size, it has won numerous awards both for its food and wine and for its performances, but it has remained at heart an artists' café. Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega started out here, as did Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues. Senator & presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy & attorney-activist William Kunstler have read their poetry; Dr. Oliver Sacks continues to read his prose. Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann presents a monthly Science Series; members of Monty Python & the Royal Shakespeare Company intermittently perform. Cornelia Street now offers some 700 shows a year, two a night, ranging from science to songwriting, from Russian poetry to Latin jazz, from theatre to cabaret.
And on the first Monday of every month the Cornelia Street Stadium, as David Amram affectionately calls it, presents Amram and Co, a series which explores in his highly personable, generous and informal style the astonishing variety of Amram's interests and accomplishments-renowned composer of symphonic classical music, jazz compositions, improvisation, spoken word, scat, he sits at the piano, schmoozes about music, about the greats, the beats, the obscure, the legendary; plays the French horn, pulls out all kinds of instruments (flutes, drums, horns) gathered from his many circumnavigations of the globe, pulls in guests drawn from just about every artistic walk of life.
On Wednesday November 17th at 8:30 PM he will be joined by Robin Hirsch, who celebrates his own birthday the following day. Hirsch, in addition to overseeing the performance program at CSC, is the author of the acclaimed memoir, Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski; the solo performance cycle Mosaic: Fragments of a Jewish Life; and the award-winning collaboration with his children, FEG: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children.
Amram will have his usual accomplices-Kevin Twigg on drums and glockenspiel; John de Witt on bass and various junior Amrams on percussion and vocals. Hirsch will perform and (his great forte) schmooze. However, he has promised his children that he will not sing. It is not inconceivable that there will be surprise guests.
Event: This Week at The Cornelia Street Café, November 8-14
Showtimes: Weeknights: 6:00 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:00 PM, Weekends: 6:00 PM, 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM (doors open @ 5:45 PM-early shows, & @ 8:30 PM-late shows)
Admission: Cover charge varies, when known, indicated below
November 8-14 @ Cornelia Street Cafe:
Bassist/Composer Lindsey HornerNovember 8 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10: Lindsey Horner, bass; Jimmy Cozier, saxophone; Tom Rainey, drums; Neal Kirkwood, piano. This collection of veteran New York players looks into some of the lesser known but equally as great music of Shorter, Ellington, Strayhorn, Hancock and the like. These are some of the tunes we've always wanted to play on gigs but never got the chance; music that is full of surprise and endless improvisational possibilities. The members of this band have played and are playing with everyone from The Temptations to Steve Coleman to Bill Frisell to Sam Rivers to Ani Di Franco and are all bandleaders themselves. “Horner showcases an organically eclectic way with writing and conceptualizing his music all the while dodging easy categorization."—Josef Woodard, Jazz Times
Post Folk—Sean Wayland (curated by Becca Stevens)November 10 @ 8:30, $10: Sean Wayland, piano, keys; Nate Wood, guitar; Jesske Hume, bass; Mark Guiliana, drums. ." . . Brad Mehldau, Larry Goldings or Joey Calderazzo, he (Sean) is a player of the same high caliber"—AllAboutJazz
Post Folk—Nate Wood (curated by Becca Stevens)November 10 @ 10:00 PM, $10: Nate Wood, guitar, vocals; Sean Wayland, Rhodes; Jesske Hume, bass; Mark Guiliana, drums. Nate Wood is a multi-instrumentalist who draws his inspiration equally from both rock and jazz. His two albums Reliving and Fall are entirely self made, and are made possible because of his prolific experience as a supporting musician across many genres of music. The music fuses often dense harmony with simple pop melodies. Nate is backed up live by a virtuosic band, featuring Sean Wayland, Jesske Hume and Mark Guiliana. “No doubt, Wood is a wildly endowed and original musician."—Steve Krugman, hollywooddrum.com
Michael Bates' Outside SourcesNovember 11 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10: Michael Bates, double bass; Shane Endsley, trumpet; Quinsin Nachoff, saxophone, clarinet; Tom Rainey, drums. Taking equal inspiration from jazz, western classical music, and lasting modern acts as disparate as the Bad Brains and Ornette Coleman, Bates' latest recording, Clockwise, offers a panoramic view of the engaging musical mind of Michael Bates, and will prove to be a watershed for enthusiasts of cutting-edge composition and improvisation. This dynamic collection of nine original works (the latest additions to an oeuvre bulging with more than 200 compositions) blurs the line between composition and improvisation and leaves the listener in a vertiginous space where tradition teeters at the knife-edge of a modern zest for experimentation and evolution. Dave Douglas on Michael Bates' Outside Sources and Clockwise: “I whole-heartedly recommend taking special note in Outside Sources! Michael Bates is a fantastic bassist and an engaging composer." With the addition of Shane Endsley and Tom Rainey to the band this is sure to be a must-attend gig!
The Jamie Saft Special QuintetNovember 12 & 13 @ 9:00 & 10:30 PM, $15: Jamie Saft, piano; Bill McHenry, saxophones;, Duane Eubanks, trumpet; Dwayne Burno, bass; Ben Perowsky, drums. Jamie Saft is a virtuoso pianist, keyboardist, producer, and composer from New York and a mainstay on the Downtown scene. His stylistic versatility and production skills have been featured with The Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, The B-52's, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, John Adams, Donovan, Bobby Previte, Dave Douglas, Antony and the Johnsons, and scores of other artists. Saft is a core member of bands such as The Dreamers, Electric Masada, The Beta Popes, Whoopie Pie, Swami LatePlate, The Shakers and Bakers, OV, and Kalashnikov. He has composed a number of original film scores including the Oscar nominated film “Murderball," Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “God Grew Tired Of Us," and the HBO documentary film “Dear Talula." Saft has also contributed music for Nickelodeon, MTV, and A&E. Saft has released a number of albums as a leader, including Breadcrumb Sins (Tzadik), Trouble- The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Bob Dylan (Tzadik), Sovlanut (Tzadik), Astaroth- The Jamie Saft Trio Plays Masada Book II (Tzadik), and Swami LatePlate's Doom Jazz (Veal). “The dazzling array of new sonic nuance brushed by Saft captures the imagination." Echoes Magazine. “Saft demonstrates an unfettered imagination and sense of invention that truly dominate." All About Jazz
SpokeNovember 14 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10: Dan Loomis, bass; Andy Hunter, trombone; Justin Wood, saxophone; Danny Fischer, drums. This exciting quartet features some of the most inspired, adventurous improvisers of the new generation of jazz. Andy Hunter performs regularly with the Mingus Dynasty & Big Band and with Richard Bona. Danny Fischer just returned from tours with Kurt Rosenwinkel and Aaron Goldberg. And Dan Loomis co-leads The Wee Trio, and performs regularly with a host of musicians making waves on the scene. Spoke's first album creates a truly post-modern yet beautifully melodic sound incorporating diverse influences from 1960's free-bop, contemporary classical, funk, and Chinese pop music. Spoke's music lives in the intermediate territory between individual and collective improvisation, while retaining a sense of structure and tradition. “One of the most inventive records I've heard all year.'—Hot House
COMING UP at the Cornelia Street Cafe:
Happy Birthday David AmramPlus Robin Hirsch—Minister of CultureNovember 17 @ 8:30 & 10:00 PM, $10 & a one drink minimum: Happy Birthday, David Amram! The legendary composer, conductor, author, Beat legend and American icon, celebrates his 80th birthday with music, readings, tributes and bibulation. By a synchronous fluke, the Cornelia Street Cafe's Minister of Culture, Wine Czar and Dean of Faculty, Robin Hirsch, celebrates a less venerable birthday the following day and joins the festivities as MC and junior celebrant.
Hirsch, who came to the US as a Fulbright Scholar from England in 1967, founded the Cornelia Street Cafe with two other artists in 1977. He looks on the cafe as carrying on the tradition that Amram helped create in the fifties and sixties. The Cafe started out as one room with a toaster-oven. Over the last thirty-three years it has quintupled in size, it has won numerous awards both for its food and wine and for its performances, but it has remained at heart an artists' café. Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega started out here, as did Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues. Senator & presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy & attorney-activist William Kunstler have read their poetry; Dr. Oliver Sacks continues to read his prose. Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann presents a monthly Science Series; members of Monty Python & the Royal Shakespeare Company intermittently perform. Cornelia Street now offers some 700 shows a year, two a night, ranging from science to songwriting, from Russian poetry to Latin jazz, from theatre to cabaret.
And on the first Monday of every month the Cornelia Street Stadium, as David Amram affectionately calls it, presents Amram and Co, a series which explores in his highly personable, generous and informal style the astonishing variety of Amram's interests and accomplishments-renowned composer of symphonic classical music, jazz compositions, improvisation, spoken word, scat, he sits at the piano, schmoozes about music, about the greats, the beats, the obscure, the legendary; plays the French horn, pulls out all kinds of instruments (flutes, drums, horns) gathered from his many circumnavigations of the globe, pulls in guests drawn from just about every artistic walk of life.
On Wednesday November 17th at 8:30 PM he will be joined by Robin Hirsch, who celebrates his own birthday the following day. Hirsch, in addition to overseeing the performance program at CSC, is the author of the acclaimed memoir, Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski; the solo performance cycle Mosaic: Fragments of a Jewish Life; and the award-winning collaboration with his children, FEG: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children.
Amram will have his usual accomplices-Kevin Twigg on drums and glockenspiel; John de Witt on bass and various junior Amrams on percussion and vocals. Hirsch will perform and (his great forte) schmooze. However, he has promised his children that he will not sing. It is not inconceivable that there will be surprise guests.
