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Igor Lumpert is a slovenian saxophonist and composer, currently living and working in NYC. His name is one of the most well-known/frequently alluded to names in the countries of Tito’s Ex Yugoslavia, now home to a thriving jazz scene, unfortunately badly known in the rest of the world.

Lumpert returns to Cornelia Street Cafe with his adventurous group, Innertextures. The group features New York’s finest musicians Jonathan Finlayson, Drew Gress, Kenny Grohowski and Chris Dingman

"What makes Igor’s music and playing so unique is its complexity. There is a quality to his playing and compositions that has absorbed the rich traditions of jazz music in this country but has also added something new and unidentifiable. His compositions flow with ease and vitality off odd time signatures. There is also darkness and a mystery to his sound that is all his own. No one else sounds like that."-Jane Ira Bloom, sax, Grammy winner

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“Lopato’s performances are as impressive and strikingly individual as his compositions” - Cadence Magazine

"an inventive and resourceful pianist...his compositions never faltering for a second” - The New York Times

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Vocalist and composer Song Yi Jeon will be performing some of her original music and Brazilian contemporary music with two great Brazilian musicians.

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Korean Jazz vocalist, composer Song Yi Jeon will present her originals with her quintet.

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Savory Sounds From New York’s Tastiest Talents!

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"Like a high-quality electronic product manufactured by the Panasonic Corporation, the career of alto saxophonist Michaël Attias has always involved being slightly ahead of his time...” – Ken Waxman, JazzWord

Celebrating the release of Nerve Dance, saxophonist/composer/bandleader/conceptualist Michaël Attias’ sixth album (available on Clean Feed Records, March 10, 2017), which deals with the aesthetics of spontaneity, the theory of elasticity and the concept of equality in music, is an expansive, spirited debut from Michaël Attias’ new Quartet, featuring Aruán Ortiz (piano), John Hébert (bass) and Nasheet Waits (drums). On Nerve Dance, we are regaled with hearing four hearts, minds and bodies hooking up at an extremely high level on nine Attias compositions, and two from Hébert. Each piece exercises a different set of muscles and faculties for the band, and every member of the Quartet carries within them the historical knowledge and a fluency in the multitude of dialects of this music; consequently we hear them free within the compositions, deep into the zone of this collective creation, transcending their respective instruments and completely surrendering to the music. There exists an instinctual, visceral need in Attias and his cohorts to play music that is honest, that rejects inertness and fully embraces the meaning of creativity and evolution. This music is found on Nerve Dance.

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Kathryn Christie is back at Cornelia Street for another evening of music by Brazilian singer-songwriter Djavan. Her strong background in jazz paired with a deep passion for Brazilian music creates an intimate and unique performance not to be missed. Kathryn's effortless voice showcases the joy and sadness of Djavan's songwriting, backed by an outstanding band.

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Three Brooklynites, three new novels of women who resist.

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Recently named the #1 Rising Star Trombonist in Downbeat’s annual critics poll and hailed by the New York Times as “a young trombonist of vision and composure”, few musicians have managed to navigate the richly varied avenues of New York City’s abundant music scene with the same passion and adaptability as trombonist and composer Ryan Keberle including extensive time spent recording and performing with Maria Schneider, Sufjan Stevens, and David Bowie, to name a few. Keberle combines that wealth of influence and experience into a bold group sound with his piano-less quintet, Catharsis. Described by the Los Angeles Times as “a potent blend of cinematic sweep and lush, ear-grabbing melodies” Keberle presents Catharsis in a performance of their one-of-a-kind indie-jazz with songs rich in deep groove, melodic invention and group interaction.

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Have You Had Your Poetry Today? Get Your Brain Fuel from Poets Wear Prada.

Poets Wear Prada has been publishing well-edited, beautifully designed books of poetry and fiction you want to read, since 2006, from Frank Sinatra's hometown, Hoboken, New Jersey, the birthplace of professional baseball.

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Guitarist-composer Sebastian Noelle has spent much of his life traveling the elusive path between two worlds. In life, he travels back and forth between his native Germany and his adopted home of New York City; in his art, he navigates the more fluid boundaries between the abstract and the emotional. Throughout that nomadic existence, music has provided a constant source of shelter, an idea that unifies the wide-ranging music on Noelle’s third CD.

On Shelter, Noelle leads a stellar quintet that brings together some of the most forward-thinking and limitless musicians in modern jazz: saxophonist Marc Mommaas (Amina Figarova, Armen Donelian), pianist Matt Mitchell (Dave Douglas, Tim Berne), bassist Matt Clohesy (Seamus Blake, Darcy James Argue, Donny McCaslin), and drummer Dan Weiss (Rudresh Mahanthappa, Dave Binney).

Noelle’s own impressive credentials since arriving in New York in 2002 include more than a decade with Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, the BMI Jazz Composer’s Workshop Orchestra, the Chris Potter Big Band, the Aaron Irwin Quintet, and the New York Jazzharmonic.

The compositions on Shelter spotlight Noelle’s far-reaching interests, bringing together disparate musical influences, inspiration from documentary film and German literature, and his studies of North Indian rhythms. The album’s ten compositions also manage the tricky feat of melding ambitious complexity with emotional communication.

“A guitarist probably best known for his integral role in Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Mr. Noelle has a rewarding new album, “Shelter,” that showcases his embrace of both lyrical intricacies and rockish swagger” - Nate Chinen (New York Times)

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After several years of focusing on big band writing, trombonist/composer Alan Ferber has returned to his long- standing Nonet, and has a new release on Sunnyside Records called Roots & Transitions to show for it. This 8- movement piece sprung out of an opportunity granted through a Chamber Music America New Jazz Works grant, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation. It’s an intricate piece featuring an ensemble of five horns and four rhythm instruments, represented on the recording by either Scott Wendholt or Shane Endsley on trumpet, alto saxophonist Jon Gordon, tenor saxophonist John Ellis, bass clarinetist Charles Pillow, guitarist Nate Radley, pianist Bryn Roberts, bassist Matt Clohesy and drummer Mark Ferber. The recording has garnered a stellar 4-star review in Downbeat magazine, a critic’s pick in the New York Times, and a 2017 Grammy nomination.

"Ferber's own compositions and arrangements are inspired and meticulous (and) the solo firepower here is formidable. But the best thing about this band is their collective feel for time, which allows them to sound wildly loose yet precise, as if they have been out in a bus, touring for years." Thomas Conrad (Jazz Times)

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