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Mixed Media by Nick Sprysenski All art is for sale. Please inquire
This series explores in his highly personable, generous and informal style the astonishing variety of David 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. Cover $10 www.davidamram.com
The Atlantic Quartet, established by British-born drummer and composer Mitch Perrins, comprises some of the most promising talent to emerge from New York in recent years and was one of only 12 bands to have been invited to take part in this year’s 1st Annual Gene Harris Jazz Competition in Idaho. Atlantic Quartet reached the final stages of this competition, generating national interest on the jazz circuit. www.atlanticquartet.info
We cordially invite you to participate in our annual summer free style reading by Hosts, Curators and Friends. Recent years’ topics were New York City, On Love and Sex.
This year’s reading will show and artistic finesse and technical faculties of our Cornelia writers’ community. Does not have to be a strict form, could be “reincarnated” form in American poetry.
Finger food will be available with platters proudly carrying names Villanelles, Sestinas, Sonnets and, considering strong Slavic presence, of course, Syllabic-tonic pickles etc.
Surprise Guest: an amazing Russian poet from Odessa Dr. Boris Khersonsky! Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
For almost 50 years, Paul Motian has been closely connected with the developments of modern jazz. Besides being a compelling drummer, he has been a one-of-a-kind composer, at once simple and complex, but always vital and to the point. From his work with Bill Evans to Keith Jarrett, and his own groups that have included David Izenzon, Charles Brackeen, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell and many more important players, Motian has been a singular presence in the music. Joe Giardullo's Language of Swans Trio will play a night of Motian compositions and music that has been associated with the drummer over the course of his career. The instrumentation of the Swans� Trio intersects with Motian's beautiful trio with Izenzon and Brackeen, and that music is the jumping off point for this night.
About Language of Swans (Drimala Records) "Startlingly impressive.The tunes are paragons of beauty!" Steve Loewy ALL MUSIC GUIDE
About Joe Giardullo "Brings to mind Albert Ayler at his most beatific" THE WIRE, London
"His triumph is .... the way magicians tear paper into scraps then magically restore the whole sheet. " JAZZ WEEKLY Cover $15 www.joegiardullo.com
Penny Freeland’s work has appeared in The Ledge, Red Booth Review, Black Rock and Sage, Big City Lit, Eclectia Magazine and other fine journals. She studied poetry at Queens College with Marie Ponsot and went on to get her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College, where she worked with Jean Valentine, Mark Doty and other fine poets. Penny lives in NYC, where she teaches college classes online. When not working, she retrieves into the beach wilderness, where she is inspired by the wild, natural setting Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Featuring the return of the iconic performance poet, and man about town, Doug Collura.
Doug Collura is a Manhattan-based writer who has recited at the open mikes around town for the last twenty-seven years. He's been both a Third Prize winner and a finalist in the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and a Second Prize winner in the 1999 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, along with being an Editor's Choice selection for the Paterson Literary Review. He is the author of a spoken word CD The Dare of the Quick World and the book Things I Can Fit My Whole Head Into, published by Jane Street Press, which was a finalist for the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize. In addition to numerous publications in the Paterson Literary Review, he has been published in Lips Magazine, The Cynic and other periodicals, Web sites and webzines. Cover $7 (includes one house drink) www.douglascollura.com
"It's an extraordinary band, one that seems to pick up the free jazz tradition and infuse it with a needed brilliance and vitality. "Stuart Broomer - Coda Magazine
From a Martin Longley Blog on the Quartet's last appearance at Cornelia (9/07) "ŠHemingway's own work has itself been crucial on the scene. Tonite, he's in powerhouse mode, but this cannot ever mean meathead knuckling, at least not without attendant grace and complexity. Yes, he's piledriving like it's his final appearance on Earth, but can we ever have witnessed such force coupled with this kind of sonic finesse?" Cover $10 www.gerryhemingway.com
ELIZABETH SCHOETTLE will be reading from her novel-in-progress. She is also an artist; this past June she had her first solo exhibition with the Meredith Ward Gallery.
SHELLEY STENHOUSE won a New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellowship, a Pavement Saw award for PANTS. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Antioch Review, Brooklyn Rail, MARGIE, New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West and others. She has read from Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets on National Public Radio. Shelley will be reading from her new book. Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
"Jazz fans applaud, and novices mark your calendars. Aruán Ortiz, Critically acclaimed Cuban pianist is a 'must see.'" --New York Post Cover $12 www.aruanortiz.net , www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFTHO4idNI&feature=related
From the Boston area, these wordsmiths are among the best stage performers we know. Join the crewe for a hot evening of poetry & politics. Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Cover is given where known Many spoken words events are free There is always a one-drink minimum per set; times are door opening times
August 11-August 18, 2008 
