Thursday
Dec 06
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6:00PM
ARTISTS’ SALON
Robin, Angelo, Poul, Valerie, and David, hosts
This is a monthly opportunity for artists associated with the cafe--from every genre and every generation, past, present, and future--to gather informally, schmooze, re-invent the world, and hoist a glass of quelque chose (the only kind of chose to hoist). Our glorious curators are present, you can buttonhole them to find out what's cooking, you can introduce yourself to other toilers in the vineyard, invent projects and discover collaborators. All are welcome.
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8:30PM
NAOKI IWANE QUINTET: CD RELEASE FEATURING GEORGE GARZONE
George Garzone, tenor saxophone;
Naoki Iwane, alto saxophone;
George Dulin, piano;
Chris Tordini, bass;
Tommy Crane, drums;
Kazu Ikeda, guitar
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CD Release for the album "Deserted Island" CD for What's New Records
"Altoist Naoki Iwane is a very original soloist with his own sound.... The final four numbers also have Garzone on tenor, with
lots of fiery fiery interplay between the two saxophonists. The music is both lyrical and quite unpredicatable, with quirky melody
lines, complex chord chnages and virtuoso improvising. Listeners who fear that there is nothing new to be heard in jazz these
days(which is quite inaccurate) are well advised to give Deserted Island a close listen. It does not sound like 1960's hard bop
to me."
LA JAZZ SCENE, July 2007, Scott Yanow
www.naokiiwane.com
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Friday
Dec 07
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6:00PM
SON OF PONY
Kathi Georges, host
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The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Kathi will host a book release for her featured poet, "The Bass Player from Hand Job."
The Bass Player from Hand Job is the punk poet incarnation of a well-
known New York musical figure. He lives in the shadows observing and
watching, storing and processing, crunching numbers and making
calculations. Grinding it all out into a poetry so unique, you'll
rework your definition of the genre. At this special reading,
commemorating the anniversay of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, The Bass Player from Hand Job will be featuring material from his new book, Splitting Hairs.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
CHRIS LIGHTCAP GROUP
Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone;
Andrew D'angelo, alto saxophone;
Craig Taborn, piano;
Ted Poor, drums;
Chris Lightcap, bass, compositions
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"One of the bright lights of New York's younger players, the bassist has been fashioning a
group sound around a pair of tenor saxophonists for years. His writing can be
simultaneously demonstrative and reflective, an accomplishment that gives his music
emotional breadth."
-Jim Macnie, Village Voice
"A bassist-bandleader who's made some excellent records with two tenor saxophones out
front."
- Ben Ratliff, New York Times
"Bassist Chris Lightcap has worked alongside avant-minded mavericks such as Cecil
Taylor, Anthony Braxton, and Joe Morris, but he's also right at home in more mellifluous
units led by Regina Carter and Craig Taborn. perhaps that explains the infectious swagger
and fat grooves he brings to bear on Bigmouth (Fresh Sound New Talent), a playful bag of
tunes featuring saxists Tony Malaby and Bill McHenry and drummer Gerald Cleaver"
-Time Out New York
Cover $10
www.chrislightcap.com
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Saturday
Dec 08
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6:00PM
ITALIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION
Maria Lisella, Jeanne Dickey, Gil Fagiani, hosts
Italian American Writers Association, featured readers Mary Cappello and Nick Matros, plus open mic, 5 minute limit.
Bring a friend, a relative, a poem, a story!
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
http://www.iawa.net
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
CHRIS LIGHTCAP GROUP
Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone;
Andrew D'angelo, alto saxophone;
Craig Taborn, piano;
Gerald Cleaver, drums;
Chris Lightcap, bass, compositions
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"One of the bright lights of New York's younger players, the bassist has been fashioning a
group sound around a pair of tenor saxophonists for years. His writing can be
simultaneously demonstrative and reflective, an accomplishment that gives his music
emotional breadth."
-Jim Macnie, Village Voice
"A bassist-bandleader who's made some excellent records with two tenor saxophones out
front."
- Ben Ratliff, New York Times
"Bassist Chris Lightcap has worked alongside avant-minded mavericks such as Cecil
Taylor, Anthony Braxton, and Joe Morris, but he's also right at home in more mellifluous
units led by Regina Carter and Craig Taborn. perhaps that explains the infectious swagger
and fat grooves he brings to bear on Bigmouth (Fresh Sound New Talent), a playful bag of
tunes featuring saxists Tony Malaby and Bill McHenry and drummer Gerald Cleaver"
-Time Out New York
Cover $10
www.chrislightcap.com
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Sunday
Dec 09
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6:00PM
SHEEP MEADOW PRESS
Margo Berdeshevsky
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"BUT A PASSAGE IN WILDERNESS"
Poems by Margo Berdeshevsky
Born in New York City, graduated from the High School of Performing Arts, attended Northwestern and New York Universities, quit for a role in her first Off Broadway play; trained as an actress by Lee Strasberg. Performed in world premieres of Harold Pinter's "The Basement" & "Tea Party," David Hare's "Slag," worked in the companies of Lincoln Center and Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, toured the USA as Ophelia, and was nominated for a television Emmy award, for a country western drama in which she had her head in an oven, but was saved by a neighbor who prayed for her.
MARGO BERDESHEVSKY'S first collection of poetry, "But A Passage In Wilderness," will be released in December 2007 by The Sheep Meadow Press, She has been a recipient of the Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America (selected by Marie Ponsot,) 4 Pushcart Prize nominations, the Chelsea Poetry Award, Kalliope's Sue Saniel Elkind Award, places in the Pablo Neruda and Ann Stanford Awards (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa,) and Border's Books/ Honolulu Magazine Grand Prize for Fiction. Recent exhibitions of her "visual poems" were in Paris and in Hawaii. Her "Tsunami Notebook" was made following a journey to Sumatra in Spring 2005, to work in a survivors' clinic in Aceh. She is currently living in Paris.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
DUDLEY DEAN'S DIAMOND DEUCE & MOTH
Patrick Breiner, saxophone;
Ben Greenberg, guitar;
Ben Gerstein, trombone;
Sam Hillmer, tenor saxophone
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Dudley Dean's Diamond Deuce
was formed in Spring 2007 by Saxophonist Patrick Breiner and Guitarist Ben Greenberg. After meeting at
the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in 2003 the twosome began to play together in a quintet called Rickshaw
Mama. It was around this time that Ben tried to convince Patrick that listening to Alkaline Trio and Fall Out Boy was a bad idea.
Patrick, in turn, tried to convince Ben that smoking cigs and drinking Sparks were bad ideas. They both, however, agreed that
playing the music of Thelonious Monk was a very good idea. After their World Premier as a duo at the Lily Pad in Cambridge,
MA in Spring 2007, they recorded 15 Monk compositions in Ben's living room. Expect lots of classic and lesser known Monk
tunes, wild improvisation, treble, and even some original music from this duo in the future.
www.myspace.com/PatrickBreinerMusic
MOTH
Freely-improvised duets inspired by music, arts, letters, movements, spirits, vibes and nature from all over the world.
"(MOTH) plays free improv with a laserlike focus. The duo's brief sets are miniclinics in the art of taut, agile interplay - in which
deep listening and blazing reflexes start to seem almost magical."
- Time Out New York, November 2006
www.bengerstein.com
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Monday
Dec 10
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6:00PM
MONOLOGUES & MADNESS
Tulis McCall, host
Our resident monologist and most excellent actor, Tulis McCall, hosts
MONOLOGUES AND MADNESS – Actors reading original monologues without a net.
YOU ARE INVITED BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE:
· You're an actor looking for a new monologue.
· You're a writer looking for an actor for that new monologue.
· You have a monologue that you have written and want to read.
· You know that theatre makes the word go round, and that really good theatre begins with extraordinary packets of ordinary words.
CONTACT Tulis for a slot - or just come listen. tulis@tulismccall.com
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
COMPOSERS COLLABORATIVE: SERIAL UNDERGROUND
Jed Distler, host
Guy Klucevsek, accordion/voice;
Rima Fand , violin;
Michael Lowenstern , bass clarinet;
Barbara Merjan, percussion;
Eileen Mack, clarinet/voice;
Jody Redhage , cello/voice;
Jonathan Shapiro, vibraphone
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Jerome Kitzke & friends – Guy Klucevsek (accordion/vox), Rima Fand (violin), Michael Lowenstern (bass clarinet), and
Barbara Merjan (percussion) – perform Kitzke’s music with the composer at the piano and vocalizing. Program includes:
Breath and Bone (1996) for accordion and vox, She Left in the Crow-Black Night (2003) for bass clarinet, The Animist Child
(1994) for toy piano and vox, The Green Automobile (2000) for piano and vox with text by Allen Ginsberg, and The Big
Gesture (1987) for violin, bass clarinet and percussion. Kitzke’s music has long attracted new music’s heavy hitters for its
visceral immediacy and far-ranging expressive impact.
Y Trio – Eileen Mack (clarinet, vox), Jody Redhage (cello, vox), and Jonathan Shapiro (vibraphone) – Serial Underground
ensemble-in-residence, performs Listlessness by Eric km Clark, 11218 by Jody Redhage and a new work by Jonathan
Shapiro. These young musicians mesh to the max with playful precision.
Cover charge:
$15 general, $10 stu/sr
w/ One drink minimum.
Advance sale discounts available from Composers Collaborative.
Box Office: 212-663-1967
www.composerscollab.org
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Tuesday
Dec 11
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6:00PM
STORYTELLING
Barbara Aliprantis
Storytelling occurs the second Tuesday of every month.
FEATURED TELLER: Lynette Braxton
plus DECEMBER 11 BONUS: TODD CONNER
FORMAT: Featured Teller/Open MIC/Swap: 6 - 7 minute limit
LYNETTE BRAXTON is a gifted storyteller, actress, motivational speaker, writer and director of children’s theater. A native of Southwest Louisiana, now living in New York City, she travels and performs extensively. Lynette's film credits include a featured role in the widely acclaimed film THE APOSTLE, starring Robert Duvall.
Her diverse repertoire of international stories and original works, commissioned for any occasion, are inspiring, foster self esteem, encourage the heart, and celebrate the oldest art form: STORYTELLING!
Whether Lynette entertains us this evening with stories about her "growing up days" in Louisiana, or her "travels 'round the world," she is guaranteed to remind us to celebrate family gatherings, in the spirit of the holiday season, and to tell our own stories.
Playwright/performer TODD CONNER (creator of the solo performance, Metamorphoses) will tell his version of "The Creation Lay" from his 1990 play, The Grendelmas. In Beowulf, on which his play was based, it was the power of the scop -- the court storyteller -- celebrating the All-Father's Creation that provoked Cain's descendent, Grendel, to unleash his havoc in the first place -- and yet the lay itself is absent from the original poem (and ignored completely by Robert Zemeckis' revisionist movie).
"It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men, women and children when the December spirit returns again." --Anonymous
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
http://www.barbaraaliprantis.org
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8:30PM
MORRISON MOTEL
John Morrison, host
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
http://www.myspace.com/morrisongod
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Wednesday Dec 12
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6:00PM
EVERY SONG EVER WRITTEN
William Zinsser, piano;
Arnold Roth, saxophone
Two musicians who in their day jobs teach us how to write and see the world comedically. Zinsser is the author of the classic "On Writing Well" and Roth is a cartoonist at The New Yorker.
Drinks & Dinner available.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
RON MCCLURE QUARTET
Ron McClure, bass;
Rich Perry, tenor saxophone;
George Colligan , piano;
Billy Drummond, drums
Ron McClure, World renound jazz basisist and NYU professor of jazz studies, with Rich Perry (Sax) , George Colligan
(piano) & Billy Drummond (Drums). Ron's latest SteepleChase release: "Soft Hands" SCCD #31615, recorded in 2006 is a trio
with Perry and Colligan. Drummer & NYU professor, Billy Drummond, will join the afore mentioned trio to perform previously
unrecorded original compostions by Ron McClure, which will be record 12/13/07, the very next day, for SteepleChase
Records.
From Bob Blumenthal of the Boston Globe:
"McClure's strong, glowing sound would be hard to improve upon, and suggests that we all might grow more tolerant to
the bass solos if the instrument were regularly played with the natural warmth he features."
Cover $10
http://www.ronmcclure.com
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Thursday
Dec 13
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6:00PM
BEING WITH A BULLET
Angelo Verga, host
Stephen Paul Miller
About BEING WITH A BULLET (Talisman House Press) by Stephen Paul Miller
"Stephen Paul Miller's masterful Being with a Bullet is a literary triumph. His range includes pithy narratives, poems-as-plays, and stunningly discursive poem-lectures delivered at Jagiellonian University (in Krakow, Poland), Tel Aviv University, and Seton Hall. His poems are political, heady, performance-based romps in which even Ralph Kramden can become a critic. Miller is a Distinguished Professor of Gabby Analysis with a PhD in Intoxication and Hilarity."
--Denise Duhamel
"Stephen Paul Miller, bearing the bullet, is dj, historian, pundit, literary pugilist, poet-critic-poet, dad, decipherer, dramatist, Meher Baba-lover, gossiper, academic, traveler, writer of both screeds and an epithalamium. After reading his long poem about the 1986 NLCS series between New York and Houston, one can almost forgive him for loving the Mets. Almost." --Susan M. Schultz
"Uniquely affecting. Miller has redefined the confessional poem." -- Carol Wierzbicki, Brooklyn Rail
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
GNU VOX: SEAN WOOD
David Devoe, curator
Sean Wood, voice, piano, guitar;
Ethan Philbrick, cello;
Pat Hay, guitar;
Bennett Miller, bass
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A California native, Sean Wood was born and raised in San Francisco. He later moved to Folsom, California-home to the state maximum security Folsom Prison. This is where his family still calls home and from where he draws majority of his musical inspiration. Wood was a classically trained musician first, on the violin since the age of 8, but after hearing a Carmen McCrae record in his junior year of high school, started pursuing jazz. This is where he continued, and with a culmination of his studies in the field, received a Bachelors Degree in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory of Music in 2005. Wood’s music is definitely his own, predominantly drawing on his exposure to folk, soul, bluegrass and jazz. He is currently recording his first full length album, which will be finished and released this year.
Cover $10
www.myspace.com/seanwood
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December 06-December 13, 2007 
