Friday
Jan 09
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6:00PM
SON OF PONY
Jackie Sheeler, host
Larissa Shmailo
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The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Tonight's featured poet is Larissa Shmailo.
"The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line."
-Rollo May
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
GREG RUGGIERO GROUP
Greg Ruggiero, guitar, compositions;
Frank LoCrasto, piano;
Gavin Fallow, bass;
Tommy Crane, drums
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Tonight features two young bandleaders/composers, first
9PM Greg Ruggiero Group
- Playing some of Greg's Original compositions, A fresh sound for the new generation of guitarist, and listeners a like...
Warm and liquid, the music of jazz guitarist Greg Ruggiero slides into the ear so easily, you don’t notice until it’s already had its way with you. The first signs include a slowing of the breath, a relaxed attentiveness and a heightened awareness of one’s blessings.
- WEEKLY ALIBI ARTICLE
V.16 No.50 | December 13 - 19, 2007
Albuquerque, New Mexico
cover for both shows $8
www.myspace.com/gregruggiero
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10:30PM
LOGAN RICHARDSON'S SHIFT
Logan Richardson, alto sax;
Barry Altschul, drums;
Jake Saslow, tenor saxophone;
Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet;
Harold O'neal, piano
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... Then at 10:30PM Logan Richardson's Shift
- On this date stirring away from his normal format with Shift, Logan attempts a more open format for improvisations...Including some original compositions, and primarily an open platform.....
cover for both shows $8
www.loganrichardson.com
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www.myspace.com/loganrichardson
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Saturday
Jan 10
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6:00PM
ITALIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION
Maria Lisella, host
Gil Fagiani;
John J. Trause
Italian American Writers Association, featured readers plus open mic, 5 minute limit.
The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) celebrates its 18th Anniversary with two Poets Wear Prada Press authors:
Gil Fagiani: Co-hosts IAWA's monthly reading at the Cornelia Street Café,
and is the Associate Editor of Feile-Festa: A Literary Arts Journal.
Grandpa's Wine, his latest chapbook, was recently published by Poets Wear
Prada, and Rain Mountain Press published his book-length poetry collection,
Rooks. In early 2009, Rain Mountain Press will be publishing a revised and
greatly expanded book-length version of his 2004 chapbook, Crossing 116th
Street: A Blanquito in El Barrio. He has translated into English, poetry written in Italian, Abruzzese
dialect, and Spanish. A social worker by profession, Fagiani directs a
residential support program for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in
Downtown Brooklyn.
John J. Trause: Directs the Wood-Ridge Memorial Library. His chapbook of
poetry Seriously Serial was published by Poets Wear Prada, Hoboken, N. J.
His translations, poetry, and visual work have appeared in Sensations
Magazine, Cover (New York, N.Y.), The Rift, The Troubadour, Global City
Review, and many other journals. His work
is forthcoming in Sulphur River Review and LIPS. His chapbook Latter-Day
Litany (Éditions élastiques, 1996) in its performance version (Latter-Day
Litany & Other Pseudo-Hagiographica) has been staged Off-Off Broadway and
elsewhere by Daniel P. Quinn since 1998. In 2005, he co-founded the William Carlos
Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, N. J., where he serves as
programmer and host.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
http://www.iawa.net
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
WHIRRR! THE MUSIC OF JIMMY GIUFFRE
Joel Harrison, guitar;
George Schuller, drums;
Marty Ehrlich, woodwinds;
Ohad Talmour, wooodwinds;
Jacob Garchik, trombone/accordion;
Cameron Brown, bass
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Photo by Dick Katz (Music Inn Film/Barenholtz Productions)
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Joel Harrison and George Schuller present: A tribute to Jimmy Guiffre
Harrison, Schuller and band will perform rarely heard gems from Guiffre's canon both as a sextet and in smaller units. Guiffre, who died this year, was an inspiration as a player and composer. He charted new directions in "chamber-jazz", in groups with Jim Hall and Bob Brookmeyer, and Paul Bley and Steve Swallow.
Cover $12
www.joelharrison.com
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Sunday
Jan 11
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6:00PM
"PUNK ROCK FICTION"
Claire L. Shefchik, host
David Hollander , featured reader;
Amy Dupcak;
Marina Kaganova ;
Jason Amos;
Claire L. Shefchik
Claire L. Shefchik is a second-year M.F.A. fiction student at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, she received a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in Tucson, the Hattie Lockett Award and Margaret Sterling Memorial Prize for poetry. Her work has appeared in Persona and two anthologies of the J. Alfred Prufrock Society, Most of Us Know Jen and Eat a Peach. Claire currently writes about music and the arts for Beyond Race magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Amy Dupcak - Amy got her bachelor's degree in writing and film history at Sarah Lawrence College, and is currently working on her MFA in fiction at the New School. She's the features editor at Beyond Race Magazine, for whom she also writes. She blogs at No-Alternative.net.
Marina Kaganova - Marina has lived in Russia, Arizona, England, Washington State and New York. She attended the University of Arizona, where she triple-majored in English, creative writing, and classics, and received every poetry award they had to offer. She's currently working on her MFA in poetry at Columbia University, but writes excellent fiction too.
Jason Amos - A native of Texas, Jason received his MFA in fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the co-owner of the Brooklyn DIY music venue/record label Death by Audio, and is a veteran of Brooklyn-based bands Famous Amos and Role/Play. He's working on a novel.
David Hollander is the author of the novel, L.I.E. His short fiction has recently appeared in McSweeney's, Post Road, Swink, Unsaid, The Black Warrior Review, Sleeping Fish, and elsewhere; his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poets & Writers, and Gastronomica (and again, elsewhere). Hollander's work has been frequently anthologized, most recently in Best American Fantasy, 2007. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the writer Margaret Hundley Parker, and their daughter, Percy.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
VIBRAPHONIST TOM BECKHAM GROUP
Tom Beckham , vibraphone;
Chris Cheek, saxophones;
Henry Hey, piano;
Matt Clohesy, bass;
Greg Ritchie, bass
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Vibraphonist Tom Beckham’s new CD Rebound (2008) builds upon the group sound achieved on his previous release, Center Songs (2005) which critics and fans agree “has a sound all its own” (Rhapsody.com), “with terrific charts, a great sound and an impressive performance” (ejazznews.com). “He’s as much a tune smith as a performer”(KKJZ). Beckham's playing has been described by critics as "intimate and lyrical" by Bob Bernotas, WNTI, "vibrant and colorful" by allaboutjazz.com, and "delightful and surprising" by Baltimore Magazine. The songs all cover a lot of ground, with compelling solos that display the group’s ability to freely move into, and out of duo, trio, and full-ensemble interplay without losing the sense of lyricism that has become a pillar of Beckham's sound.
Returning to the Cornelia Street Cafe along with him are stellar saxophonist Chris Cheek and pianist Henry Hey—both appeared on Rebound and Center Songs, plus the rhythm section of bassist Matt Clohesy and drummer Greg Ritchie. The band will perform compositions from Rebound as well as new, unreleased material.
Cover $10
www.tombeckham.net
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www.apriarecords.com
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Monday
Jan 12
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6:00PM
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN
Miriam Eusebio, host
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Join Intentional Theater for an evening of poetry to support our production of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett!
Actors from the play and others will read poetry referred to in the play, poetry by Samuel Backett, and poetry by the late Janet Ward, our first Winnie.
Copies of "Those Wonderful Lines: the poetry of Happy Days" will be on sale.
Director Miriam Eusebio will host.
Cover $10
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
SALT PEANUTS
Salena Godden, vocals;
Thelonious Moniak, guitar;
Max Doray, bass
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SaltPeter kicked ass with their latest album HUNGER'S THE BEST SAUCE on exciting new UK label Fred in 2007. As the title suggests, that album covered themes of hunger, hunger for sex and excitement, hunger to belong and looking for love in all the wrong places. SaltPeter produced an album to both go out and come home to...a dark and delicious commentary of London nightlife. SaltPeter was formed by the notorious Salena Godden and Peter Coyte. It comes as no surprise that combination makes the identifiable, distinctive sound it does. It's bold and rebellious, quintessentially British and very referential of a modern, provocative London.
SaltPeter are currently in NYC recording the new album and wish to debut this wicked new work in an exclusive unveiling at the Cornelia Street Cafe! As a trio they nickname themselves SaltPeanuts and in this excellent live show Salena Godden is joined on stage by Saltpeter's New York colleagues - a duo consisting of the tattooed and so slinky Max Doray (Baby Strange, Alagator) on bass guitar and uber jazz dude Theo Moniak (Randy Herman & The Sceptre of Benevolence) on guitar, bringing those jazzy licks, that salted blues and them grinding basslines to the party...totally LIVE...
“Evoking Cassandra Wilson and Ian Dury...SaltPeter is sharp literate Brit pop for disillusioned romantics and incorrigable sensualists.”
The Word Magazine
“Catch her as she tumbles breathlessly from one dark thought to the next.”
The Times
"Salena Godden is a tour de force...Rather than perfecting a style, Salena is style. Like most artists of note - there is no one like her."
Lemn Sissay (Poet and author)
www.saltpeter.co.uk
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www.myspace.com/wearesaltpeter
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Tuesday
Jan 13
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6:00PM
STORYTELLING
Barbara Aliprantis
Lee-Ellen Marvin, featured teller
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Lee-Ellen Marvin
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13th Anniversary of "2nd Tuesday of the Month Series" - Join the Celebration!
Featured Teller: Lee-Ellen Marvin "Telling the Stories of the Day"
FORMAT: Open Telling, followed by Featured Teller
(Open Telling time 5 minutes - rather than usual 6-7 - allowing more folks to swap a story on this 13th anniversary.)
LEE-ELLEN MARVIN has been a professional storyteller for 21 years, teaching it at the college and graduate levels. She has explored storytelling from all angles, and her latest project "Standing Up: Women in Peace and Social Action," is a storytelling project about women in history and current times, "standing up, speaking out, and making noise." Most recently, she has been encouraging storytellers and activists to work together to tell stories about the most important news of our times.
A gifted master storyteller, Lee-Ellen tells stories with spare and elegant language hovering just this side of music. With deceptive simplicity, she communicates warmth, love and respect for both her listeners and her stories. Telling folktales, mythology, oral histories, and original stories, Lee-Ellen takes her listeners on rich (sometimes goofy) journeys through time, place, and imagination.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
www.barbaraaliprantis.org
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www.home.twcny.rr.com/lmarvin/
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8:30PM
MORRISON MOTEL
John Morrison, host
Pat Dixon;
Dan St. Germain;
Mike Drucker;
Helen Hong;
RG Daniels;
Mick Diflo;
Rob Apuzzo
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John Morrison's monthly comedy quickie--some of the smartest, most politically savvy comedians in or passing through New York make and unmake their bed here before some soon to be deported illegal third world alien comes in to clean
it all up . . .
Cover $10
www.myspace.com/morrisongod
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Wednesday Jan 14
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6:00PM
INTERCULTURAL POETRY SERIES
Julia Istomina, host
Mark Bibbins;
John Deming;
Michael Quattrone
Mark Bibbins is the author of The Dance of No Hard Feelings, forthcoming
from Copper Canyon Press, and the Lambda Award-winning Sky Lounge.
Michael Quattrone is the author of Rhinoceroses (New School Chapbook
Series, 2006), and a curator of the KGB Monday night poetry reading
series. His work has appeared online in Octopus, McSweeney's, and
Jacket, and in the anthologies The Best American Erotic Poems
(Scribner, 2008) and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—Second Floor
(No Tell Books, 2007). He works with Visible Theatre and lives in
Sleepy Hollow, New York.
John Deming is Co-Editor in Chief of coldfrontmag.com. His poems have
appeared or are forthcoming in POOL, Parthenon West Review, Tarpaulin
Sky, Past Simple and elsewhere. A New Hampshire native, he currently
lives in New York City and teaches at Baruch College and L.I.M.
College. He holds degrees in journalism and poetry from the University
of New Hampshire and The New School.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
http://www.michaelquattrone.com
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8:30PM
RALE MICIC TRIO
Rale Micic, guitar, compositions;
Miriam Sullivan, bass;
Greg Hutchinson, drums
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Born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, guitarist and composer Rale Micic (pron. Rah-Leh Mee-chee-ch) created cult-like following among music fans with his mix of jazz and haunting melodies from the Balkans. On his latest release entitled Serbia, Micic establishes himself as one of the most inventive voices on the music scene today. He will be bringing his new trio for this very special evening!
“Micic is bringing an intriguing new perspective to the jazz guitar.”
- LA Times
Cover $10
www.ralemicic.com
STREAMING LINK:
www.ralemicic.com/Music.htm
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Thursday
Jan 15
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6:00PM
POETRY
Laurel Blossom;
Sabra Loomis
Blossom and Loomis read from their new books
"Degrees of Latitude" and "House Held Together by Wind,"
as well as other poems.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
GNU VOX: SUNNY KIM &YOON SUN CHOI
David Devoe, host
Sunny Kim, voice, electronics;
Yoon Sun Choi, voice, electronics;
Ryan Mackstaller, guitar;
Jesse Stacken , piano, keyboard;
Geoff Kraly, electric bass;
David Ambrosio, acoustic bass;
Vinnie Sperrazza, drums
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With her cutting edge vision for music and truly unique vocal style, melding elements of jazz, classical, electronic and Korean folk music, Sunny has gained recognition world-wide. After moving to NY in 2005, Sunny performed as a part of “Tribute to Steve Lacy Concert” at Merkin Hall in NYC, which featured jazz legends such as Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, and Roswell Rudd, and at “Robert Creeley Memorial” with Irene Aebi. She has performed in groups led by Roswell Rudd, Min Xiao Fen, Pheeroan AkLaff and Gino Sitson in jazz venues such as the Stone, Jazz Gallery, Joe’s Pub, the Knitting Factory, and Zinc Bar. Sunny has toured America, Korea and Japan appearing on numerous radio and television stations including Arirang TV, EBS, and WGBH as well as Korean newspapers such as Korea Daily and Korea Times. Sunny has performed with greats such as Ran Blake, Dave Fiuzyncski, Michael Cain, Carlos Alomar, Frank Carlberg, Jason Hwang, and Stomu Takeishi, and also has recorded and performed with various projects of her own.
Originally from Toronto, Canada, Yoon has been in the New York City jazz scene since 2000. More than merely the sum product of a degree in classical piano, theory and composition, another in vocal jazz performance, and a lifetime listening to pop and rock, in her music Yoon has created a sound unclassifiable and fresh, and yet solidly rooted in a jazz improvising tradition. Yoon has worked with notable musicians such as Mark Dresser, D.D. Jackson, Mat Maneri, Ben Monder, Kenny Werner and Kenny Wheeler.
www.sunnykim.net
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www.yoonsunchoi.com
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Friday
Jan 16
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6:00PM
SON OF PONY
Kathi Georges, host
Lissa Moira ;
Richard West
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The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Featured Poets: Lissa Moira and Richard West
Lissa Moira is a multiple-award winning New York City playwright, screenwriter director, actor, poet and artist. The musical adaptation of one of her plays, co-written with long time collaborator Richard West, Who Murdered Love (a satirical DaDa surreally-serious romp of a murder mystery, set in 1924 New York and Paris) will open at Theatre for the New City on March 5.
Richard West is a recovering dreamer and world traveler, and an award-winning writer, musician and actor. He had a radio career on the West Coast (KPFA, KSAM), did a Manhattan Cable TV show (That's More Like It) and has performed his original satirical and serious songs and East-West exotic fusion music all over the East Coast.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
www.lissamoira.com
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
GEORGE GARZONE/JAMIE OEHLERS
George Garzone, tenor saxophone;
Jamie Oehlers, tenor saxophone;
Nick Sanders, piano;
Peter Slavov, bass;
Ari Hoenig, drums
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George Garzone and Jamie Oehlers have met several times both in Australia and in US. Now they are together sharing the stage with a young and dynamic rhythm section.
Saxophonist George Garzone is a member of The Fringe, a jazz trio founded in 1972 that includes bassist John Lockwood and drummer Bob Gullotti, A veteran jazzman, Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings. In addition Garzone has guested in many situations, touring Europe with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and performing with Danilo Perez, Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, Rachel Z and John Patitucci among others.
Based in Perth, Western Australia, Jamie Oehlers, was named Australian Jazz Musician of the Year at the 2007 Bell Awards, as well as winning the Best Jazz Release category and is now coordinator of Jazz Studies at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
Besides being a more than very creative musician, composer and bandleader, drummer Ari Hoenig is also a most sought-after sideman. Hear and read more at
www.arihoenig.com.
Bassist
Pater Slavov has played with George Garzone in many different constellations since he moved from Helsinki to Boston in 1999. He now resides in New York.
Only 20 years old, Nick Sanders, a jazz pianist from New Orleans, knows George from The New England Conservatory of Music, where he currently studies. Look out for something fresh!!
Cover $10
www.georgegarzone.com
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www.jamieoehlers.com
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January 09-January 16, 2009 
