Friday
Jan 23
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6:00PM
SON OF PONY
Eve Packer, host
The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
And Eve's featured poet is Anselm Berrigan.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
BEN WALTZER GROUP
Ben Waltzer, piano;
Bill McHenry, tenor saxophone;
Donald Edwards, drums;
Matt Penman, bass
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Pianist and composer Ben Waltzer, whom Ahmad Jamal has called "brilliant," brings his quartet featuring rising tenor saxophone star, Bill McHenry, to Cornelia St. Cafe for a night of forward-looking and hard-driving jazz
Cover $10
www.myspace.com/benwaltzer
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Saturday
Jan 24
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6:00PM
LIAR SHOW
Andy Christie, host
RYAN BRITT, Nerve.com; The Moth;
MARGOT LEITMAN, Late Night with Conan O’Brien; AMC’s Date Night;
ROB GORDEN, The Rob and Mark Show; Spike TV;
RAIMY ROSENDUFT, Comedian, The Moth GrandSlam finalist;
ANDY CHRISTIE
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Cover $12
(includes one house drink)
www.The LiarShow.com
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
RYAN BLOTNICK BAND/MICHAEL BLAKE BAND
Ryan Blotnick, guitar;
w/ Joachim Badenhorst, clarinet, saxophones;
Perry Wortman, bass;
Jeff Williams, drums;
Michael Blake, saxophone, vocals;
w/ Jesse Stacken, piano;
Ryan Blotnick, guitar;
Michael Bates, bass;
Russel Lacy, drums
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9:00pm Ryan Blotnick Band
Last February Ryan Blotnick released his debut album for a packed house at Cornelia St. Now he is back with a new project that has just recorded his second album for Songlines, featuring Belgian clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst of the Han Bennink Trio, and drum legend Jeff Williams. The audience can expect much of the "lyrical, almost nostalgic tone" of Blotnick's first project, but with a new palette of effects, vamp, drones, and Bass Clarinet.
"Guitarist Ryan Blotnick plays with a warm tone, a relaxed cadence and a smart but unassuming air. Born and reared in Maine, he is now based in Brooklyn. On his engagingly pensive debut, Music Needs You (Songlines), Mr. Blotnick presents a handful of original compositions. There's a sense of something natural unfolding as he and his band mates elaborate on his themes."
- Nate Chinen, New York Times, 3/7/08
- more info: www.ryanblotnick.com
10:30pm Michael Blake Band
Blake's new band emphasizes a passion for modern blues with soul and abstract lyricism.
"If musicians like Blake can rescue the real mainstream from the hands --and mouths -- of re-creators, they can continue to prove that there's still a lot that can be created from evolutionary, as well as revolutionary, music."
Ken Waxman, Jazz Weekly.com
- more info: www.michaelblake.net
$10 per set, or $15 for the whole evening
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Sunday
Jan 25
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6:00PM
CONVERSATIONS WITH MY BREASTS
Anna Fishbeyn
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Short interrelated essays on crazy Manhattan parents, of which our author is one. Pieces bear the following titles: Conversations with My Breasts, May the Best Parent Win (or A Tale About An Unanticipated Shit), and The Nuts and Bolts of Espionage (i.e. Sex in Mommyville).
Fishbeyn is the mother of two Emperors in diapers, a recent graduate of the MFA program from New School University, in the throes of her first novel.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
www.annafishbeyn.homestead.com/index.html
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8:30PM
ROB DUGUAY QUARTET
Jon Yao, trombone;
Tyler Blanton, vibraphone;
Rob Duguay, bass;
Nadav Snir-Zelniker, drums
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Rob Duguay Quartet is an assembly of world class musicians who share an appreciation for cutting-edge modern music while simultaneously embracing the traditions of swing, bebop, and Latin styles of jazz. Duguay’s compositions are circular creating nice avenues for positively flowing improvisations (often swinging) and typically avoid common jazz forms (i.e. 16 and 32 bar forms). Rob Duguay Quartet performs original compositions running the gamut of musical styles and pays homage to such greats as Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington by playing some of their jazz not-so-standards.
“Bass whiz”
-Casey Rea, Seven Days (VT)
Cover $10
www.robduguay.com
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Monday
Jan 26
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6:00PM
DRINK, BLASPHEME, F^^^
A New Show by Lisa Faith Phillips & Benefit for the Dr. Faith Legal Defense Fund.
As her friends talked about applying for jobs with the exciting new Obama administration, Dr Faith realized she could not follow her calling to help her country, she would never pass the vetting. There was her arrest record, her part time job on the Penthouse phone sex line, her summer job as a stripper to put herself through graduate school at the London School of Economics, the recent lawsuit filed against her for the show now referred to as "the show formerly known as Prince" for trademark infringement by Franklincovey, owners of trademarks for 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
And that didn't even touch on the drugs - she had inhaled - everything.
Raised in a test site for cable television, Dr. Faith was bred to be a couch potato, but she knew that there had to be something more. Outrageous, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, follow her journey to Europe, China and the Middle East where she ends up a prisioner of love in Abu Dhabi.
Show starts at 6:30, doors open at 6:00.
Cover $15
(includes one house drink)
http://www.drink-blaspheme-f.com
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Tuesday
Jan 27
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6:00PM
GRADUATE POETS SERIES
Garrett Burrell, Mike Stutzman, Alexis Sullivan, host
Ryan Daley, Brown University;
Todd Dillard, Sarah Lawrence College;
Austin LaGrone, New York University;
Eleanor Paynter, Sarah Lawrence College
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
COMEDY: MARC MARON AND FRIENDS
Marc Maron, host
Marc Maron;
John Oliver;
Todd Barry
Marc Maron, the dark Byronic poet of American political comedy, has appeared on Letterman, Conan, HBO, Comedy Central, Air America Radio, not to mention (at) the Cornelia Street Cafe. As of Jan 5th he can be found at www.breakroomlive.com with Marc Maron and Sam Seder.
John Oliver, the Dr. Jekyll to Marc Maron's Mr. Hyde, a man who can make the impending nuclear holocaust seem like a night on the pier at Blackpool, can be seen erratically as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Todd Barry has appeared on Letterman, Conan, Comedy Central and is featured in the film "The Wrestler".
Cover $10
http://www.marcmaron.com
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Wednesday Jan 28
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6:00PM
POST MFA PRE FIRST BOOK
Alexandra Grace, host
Meghan Punschke, Word of Mouth reading at Bluestocking Bookstore;
Nicole Steinberg , Earshot reading at Rose Live Music;
Laura Cronk , Poetry reading at KGB bar
In a departure from the usual programming for this series, host Grace invites curators from other-poetry-readings to read their own work.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
SOUL OF THE BLUES
Jon Sobel, host
Kings County Blues Band;
Robert Ross
8:30 -
The Kings County Blues Band
The Kings County Blues Band plays a tasty mix of Chicago blues,
hard-hitting blues-rock, funk, and soul. The repertoire ranges from
Freddie King to Bonnie Raitt, from Paul Butterfield to the Meters, and
from Johnnie Taylor to Johnny Winter, plus a few punchy originals.
Each set is a satisfying medley of authentic American sounds,
distilled through a gritty New York City attitude into a potent brew
of down-home goodness.
9:30 - Robert Ross
"A fine singer, a snappy lyricist, and an even better blues rock
guitarist... cut from the same cloth as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, and
Johnny Winter. Time after time Ross delivers the goods."
- NY Daily
News.
Cover $10
http://www.souloftheblues.com
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Thursday
Jan 29
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6:00PM
POETS
Susan Sindall;
Wendell Hawken
Wendell Hawken, a retired marketing executive, had her first full poetry collection published in July 2008 by The Backwaters Press of Omaha. Many of the collection's poems were written during her studies at the Warren Wilson College Program for Writers where she earned her MFA in Poetry, thirty-nine years after her Vassar College BA. She lives on a cattle farm in Virginia's northern Shenandoah Valley.
Susan Sindall will be reading poems, and showing some of the drawings, from Corona, her recent collaboration with artist David Hornung. The poems and drawings echo off one another, leaving space for the reader’s associations to play in this elegant chapbook.
Susan Sindall’s work has been widely published, most recently in The Belleville Revue, Hawai’I Pacific Review, and Harpur Palate. Her full-length manuscript, What’s Left, will soon be published by Cherry Grove/WordTech Communications. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and lives in the Hudson Valley.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
http://www.thebackwaterspress.com
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8:30PM
KOMEDA PROJECT
Russ Johnson, trumpet & flugelhorn;
Krzysztof Medyna, saxophone;
Andrzej Winnicki, piano;
Sean Conly, bass;
Dave Anthony, drums
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KOMEDA PROJECT, an acoustic jazz quintet, was brought to life from a
desire to perform - on this side of
the Atlantic - and be able to hear live, music of Krzysztof Komeda again.
The group, with its latest CD release entitled "Crazy Girl"
and its live performances, aims to bring the music of Krzysztof Komeda, its
beauty, emotional intensity and logical yet dramatic structure, to a wider
audience.
"While the jazz ethos is universal, Komeda's music distills the essence of
Poland and pours it into the jazz bottle. Widely acclaimed as one of the
prime creators
of modern European jazz, Komeda's relatively short career had an enormous
impact that is still being felt."
- Budd Kopmann/allaboutjazz.com
While best known for his haunting soundtracks to Roman Polanski films, the
Polish pianist and composer made plenty of music
that commands full engagement. This quintet explores that rich musical
terrain.
- - New York Times/June2007
Among music fans, jazz people typically possess an exaggerated need for new
stimuli. To hear something that has not been heard before is their
endless quest. They are hereby directed to "Crazy Girl" by the Komeda
Project. My admiration for the album continued to grow as I listened to it.
I think it is one of the strongest albums I have heard this year - and I
get a LOT of albums in the mail! Performance: 4 Stars
- - Thomas Conrad/Stereophile Magazine/July2007
A very exciting project. The excitement, energy and the logical yet free
structure of Komeda's work is readily apparent in the arrangements
and playing. ... these tracks are not meant to be museum pieces, but rather
a reaction in the present to the very core of Komeda's music.
A wonderful introduction to the musical world of Krzysztof Komeda. Highly
recommended.
- - Budd Kopman/allaboutjazz.com
Cover $10
www.komedaproject.com
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Friday
Jan 30
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6:00PM
SON OF A PONY
Jackie Sheeler, host
Marty McConnell
Jackie hosts this rare 5th Friday in January edition of our legendary open mic series.
Poets should arrive 5:45 to sign up for the open reading.
Jackie's featured poet is Marty McConnell.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
DAN MCCARTHY GROUP
George Garzone;
Mark Shim, saxophone;
Dan McCarthy, vibraphone;
Michael Bates, bass;
Owen Howard, drums
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New York vibraphonist Dan McCarthy, whose playing has been described as "charismatic and pointedly contemporary" by Nate Chinen at The New York Times, is excited to debut a brand new project on Friday, January 30th at The Cornelia Street Cafe. The quintet features some of the most creative and respected musicians in New York; George Garzone and Mark Shim on tenor saxophone, Michael Bates on bass, and Nasheet Waits on drums. The band will feature the original compositions of Dan McCarthy and Michael Bates, and will draw on influences ranging from John Coltrane to Joe Locke to Death Cab For Cutie.
Dan moved to New York City in 2004 from his native Toronto, Canada, and has since performed with some of the best musicians the city has to offer, including Ari Hoenig, Myron Walden, Robin Eubanks, Gary Bartz, Jeremy Steig, Gerald Cleaver, Rory Stuart, and Ingrid Jensen. His debut CD, Interwords, was named one of the top 10 jazz releases in Canada in 2006 by Canadian jazz critic Geoff Chapman, and his playing has been called "ambitious", "arresting", and "showstopping" by George Harris at All About Jazz Los Angeles, who also said his playing "walks the tightrope between calm gentility and fiery abandon". Mark F. Turner at All About Jazz New York says that "Dan gives new visions of the mallet instrument".
Do not miss this premier show from what is surely one of New York's more original bands
Cover $10
www.danmccarthy.net
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January 23-January 30, 2009 
