Under the Greek Moon: Lina Orfanos sings Manos Hadjidakis

with guest vocalists Corey James Crawford and Barbara Waxenberg

An evening of sublime songs based on the cinema and theater music of Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. Featuring selections from City Blues, Great Eros, Lorca’s Blood Wedding, Mythologia, Never on Sunday and the Romaic Agora.

 Cover $15   linaorfanos.com

Under the Greek Moon: Lina Orfanos sings Manos Hadjidakis

with guest vocalists Corey James Crawford and Barbara Waxenberg

An evening of sublime songs based on the cinema and theater music of Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. Featuring selections from City Blues, Great Eros, Lorca’s Blood Wedding, Mythologia, Never on Sunday and the Romaic Agora.

"Live at the Jazz Standard is a field report from one of today's most inspired two-man teams."
David Adler - JazzTimes 9/05

"The co-leaders, having played together for nearly two decades, have achieved an empathy that results in several passages of remarkable collective improvisation."
Will Smith - Downbeat 9/05

Voted a Rising Star Acoustic Jazz Group in the 2004 Downbeat Critics Poll

Guitarist Dave Stryker and Saxophonist Steve Slagle have been developing a group sound for over 17 years. Recent gigs have included a packed week at the Jazz Bakery in LA where Don Heckman in the the LA Times called them "first-rate jazz talents", and a SRO show at the 2002 Monterey Jazz Festival. The group's most recent recording is the self-titled The Stryker/Slagle Band (Khaeon World Music). It has received great reviews including a feature story in the Dec. 2003 issue of Downbeat, and was picked as one of the Top Ten CD's of 2003 in the New Jersey Star Ledger and Jazzreview.

Dave and Steve consider this band their main focus after years as sidemen with many of the greats. Dave spent over 13 years with Stanley Turrentine, and also worked with Jack McDuff and Kevin Mahogany, and has over 15 CD's out as a leader, (most featuring Slagle.) He's also been a sideman on over 25 others. Stryker was voted one of the Top Ten Guitarists in both the Critics and Readers Poll of Downbeat Magazine in 2001, and his latest CD, Blue to the Bone III (SteepleChase Music), was picked as one of the top CD's of 2002 by jazz station WBGO and by Jazzreview. Gary Giddins in the Village Voice calls Dave "one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years." ,p> Saxophonist Steve Slagle also has released 10 CD's as a leader, and performed as a sideman on countless others. He has played with Charlie Haden, Milton Nascimento, and Carla Bley to name a few. Steve was musical director of the Mingus Big Band for many years. His most recent CD New New York (OmniTone), features Stryker and Joe Lovano. He is also on Joe Lovano's Grammy winning CD "52nd St. Themes" on Blue Note. Jazz Times says "Slagle ranks in the upper echelon of alto sax players on the scene today."
 Cover $10   www.davestryker.com

Inspired by Celtic and South East Asian ensemble traditions placed in an underground jazz and rock context, the ecstatic and exuberant music of Blarvuster combines punk/march drumming, syncopated dub-esque bass and guitar lines, dervish saxophone, Irish whistle-like flutes, fiddle style viola and florid bagpipes.

Flux Quartet plays Welch "Composed for conventional string quartet, Matthew Welch's Siubhal Turnlar mixes aspects of Celtic bagpipe music and southeast Asian gamelan. It's a seemingly unlikely combination, perhaps, but Welch uncovers unsuspected commonalities in the two idioms, weaving them into a rich tapestry of modal melodies and dancing rhythms. The Flux Quartet brings an ideal mix of bravura and charm to a piece that deserves to be widely performed and heard."
TimeOut NYC
 Cover $10   www.myspace.com/matthewtobinwelch ,  www.myspace.com/blarvuster

Kalmanovitch will feature her electric quartet Hut Five. Joined by guitarist Pete McCann, bassist John Hebert, and drummer Owen Howard, she will perform original compositions blending her primary musical influences: contemporary jazz, 20th Century classical music, rock and free improvisation. Central to the group’s aesthetic is the idea of expressive contrasts. The original compositions span the poles of extended composition and free improvisation, and Kalmanovitch’s rich viola and sweet violin float over the astringent chromaticism and rhythmic complexity of her compositions. The group has released two records on Perspicacity.
 Cover $10   www.tanyakalmanovitch.com

This special edition of Soul of the Blues features.....Melissa Mulligan, Adam Payne and Whisperado.

for more information on the artists, please visit:

Melissa Mulligan

Adam Payne

Whisperado

SOUL OF THE BLUES, NYC's premiere *inexpensive* live blues and soul music series, happens the fourth Wednesday of every month at Cornelia Street Cafe.

 Cover $10   www.melissamulligan.com ,  myspace.com/adampayne

For this performance the group, which also includes Bill McHenry on tenor sax, John Hebert on bass and Mark Ferber on drums, will also perform new music from their upcoming release "Red Piano" also on Fresh Sound.

This season of Gnu Vox, the jazz vocal series, concentrates on emerging vocalists.  The programs will showcase the singers unique abilities as interpreters, improvisers, composers and arrangers from traditional to avant-garde jazz.  The Cornelia Street Cafe provides an intimate setting in which to hear these artists at a reasonable price!
 Cover $10   www.accuraterecords.com/carlberg ,  www.daviddevoe.com