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Hosted by Andy Christie (The New York Times, WNYC'S The Moth's Radio Hour)

This month, The Liar Show welcomes MICAELA BLEI (The Moth Unchained Tour) , ED GAVAGAN (TED Talks; The Moth Radio Hour), CHRISTINE GENTRY (NPR's This American Life), and RICH GREENE (Author, Inside the Dream: The Personal Story of Walt Disney).

"They can lie to me all night long!" - The New York Times

"Christie & Co. make dishonesty fun again." - TimeOut New York

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"Over the last couple of years in New York, one method for deciding where to hear jazz on a given night has been to track down the pianist Kris Davis." — The New York Times

Kris Davis – a pianist-composer who offers “uncommon creative adventure,” says JazzTimes – can be heard at Cornelia Street Café the first Saturday of March through May as part of an ongoing residency at the Café. She plans to feature a variety of trios- from her well established piano trio with Tom Rainey and John Hebert, to more experimental sets with long time collaborator and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and guitarist Mary Halvorson, and drummer Gerald Cleaver and saxophonist Tony Malaby.

The residency begins with Davis’s trio on March 1st , featuring the music from their new release, ‘Waiting for you to Grow.’ The music for this project was composed early last year as part of a Jazz Gallery commissioning residency. As the title suggests, ‘Waiting for you to Grow’ is a deeply personal recording for Davis, composed and recorded when Davis was pregnant with her first child. Her band mates, seasoned drummer Tom Rainey and John Hebert, were along side the seven month pregnant Davis as they toured Europe, developing and shaping the music before returning to New York to record. The result is a highly interactive and energetic effort from this long-standing trio.

The second concert in the residency on April 5th will feature a trio with guitarist Mary Halvorson and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock. The three women perform together often in Ingrid Laubrock’s Anti-house, and are each known for their unique approach to their instruments. This will be the first time they perform together as a trio.

The third concert on May 3rd will feature long time collaborator Tony Malaby and drummer Gerald Cleaver. Davis has performed with Malaby since 2001, in her quartet and then as pianist and arranger in Malaby’s large ensemble Novela. This will be the first time Davis performs with Gerald Cleaver.

Long favored by her peers, jazz fans and critics, 2013 was an especially fruitful year for Davis, finding her quintet record, Capricorn Climber, her solo recording, Massive Threads and her appearance on Eric Revis’s trio record with Andrew Cyrille on the top records of 2013 in the New York Times, Jazz Times, The Village Voice, Time Out and the New York City Jazz Record. Davis earned high praise from no less than star pianist and MacArthur “Genius” Grant honoree Jason Moran, who included her first solo record in his Best of 2012 piece in Art Forum, writing: “A freethinking, gifted pianist on the scene, Davis lives in each note that she plays. Her range is impeccable; she tackles prepared piano, minimalism and jazz standards, all under one umbrella. I consider her an honorary descendant of Cecil Taylor and a welcome addition to the fold.”

Davis has become a vital presence on the New York jazz scene, with The New York Times featuring her in a recent article titled “New Pilots at the Keyboard.” In addition to her commission from the Jazz Gallery in 2013, she received a grant from the Shifting Foundation to compose and record a large-ensemble project. Davis has performed with such top figures as Paul Motian, Eric Revis, Andrew Cyrille, Tim Berne, Bill Frisell, John Hollenbeck, Kermit Driscoll, Michael Formanek, and Ralph Alessi. Davis started playing piano at age 6, studying classical music through the Royal Conservatory in Canada and formulating her desire for a life in music by playing in the school jazz band at age 12. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Piano from the University of Toronto. The pianist received a Canada Council grant to relocate to New York and study composition with Jim McNeely, then another to study extended piano techniques with Benoit Delbecq in Paris. She holds a master’s in Classical Composition from the City College of New York, and she teaches at the School for Improvised Music. About her art, JazzTimes has declared: “Davis draws you in so effortlessly that the brilliance of what she’s doing doesn’t hit you until the piece has slipped past you.”

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Daniel studies how biological molecules interact with each other, and he spends much of his time scheming up tricks to see things that are just really difficult to see. Stephany, aka Vienna Boa, is an operatic singer and songwriter with a love for Mozart, Puccini and classical vocal literature, and a simultaneous sensibility for the modern pop song.

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Tonight with special guest poet Frank Messina reading his NY Mets poetry. The show will be filmed for a movie on the 1986 Mets, directed by Heather Quinlan.

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"You have a phenomenal touch, man!" - Herbie Hancock

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"A fluid player with a sure touch and modernist appeal, his solos are clean and graceful and he gives his band generous room that encourages sparkling interplay... Shore is definitely one to watch.” --Nick Bewsey, ICON magazine

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Boni Joi / Ron Kolm / Jack Cooper / Mindy Matijasevic / Eve Packer

Evie Ivy / Robert Gibbons / Cynthia Toronto / Valerie Conti / Linda Lerner

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When Sonny Rollins released the album Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, 1956), he not only made the point that he loomed over all over saxophone players of his day; he made a spot-on statement about his music, in which he tended to dominate his sidemen. The Arizona-born, NYC-based saxophonist Tony Malaby likewise made a multi- faceted artistic declaration when he dubbed one of his combos Tamarindo. By using the Mexican name for the tree Tamarindus indica, he honored his ethnic heritage with a shout-out to a fruit that is an essential ingredient in popular foods and beverages, but was originally imported by Europeans from Africa, much like the people who invented jazz. Tamarind is also a used as a flavoring ingredient that is both sweet and sour; Malaby’s sound on soprano and tenor sax likewise encompasses those qualities, and even though he is a powerful player, he is willing to use his instrumental voice as a balancing and enhancing spice rather than a main dish. My favorite moment on Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed, 2010), for example, comes when he and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith blur timbres so that you can’t tell where one instrumentalist leaves off and the other begins. Malaby’s mind is on the entirety of the music, not just his own part in it.

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Stefano Vaccara, Italian journalist, United Nations correspondent at Radio Radicale and columnist and Editor-in-Chief at La VOCE di New York, will read from his latest book, Carlos Marcello: The Man Behind the JFK Assassination, which has been recently translated into English. For America Oggi, Vaccara served as executive editor and United Nations correspondent for the only daily Italian American newspaper in the U.S.

Roberto Ragone, is an entrepreneur and arts and culture advocate with 25 years’ experience. He served as Executive Director of New York City's Lower East Side Business Improvement District and has organized lectures and massive multimedia presentations and fundraising activities.

Doors open 5:45 pm, arrive before 6 PM to sign up for open reading.

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When Sonny Rollins released the album Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, 1956), he not only made the point that he loomed over all over saxophone players of his day; he made a spot-on statement about his music, in which he tended to dominate his sidemen. The Arizona-born, NYC-based saxophonist Tony Malaby likewise made a multi-faceted artistic declaration when he dubbed one of his combos Tamarindo. By using the Mexican name for the tree Tamarindus indica, he honored his ethnic heritage with a shout-out to a fruit that is an essential ingredient in popular foods and beverages, but was originally imported by Europeans from Africa, much like the people who invented jazz. Tamarind is also a used as a flavoring ingredient that is both sweet and sour; Malaby’s sound on soprano and tenor sax likewise encompasses those qualities, and even though he is a powerful player, he is willing to use his instrumental voice as a balancing and enhancing spice rather than a main dish. My favorite moment on Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed, 2010), for example, comes when he and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith blur timbres so that you can’t tell where one instrumentalist leaves off and the other begins. Malaby’s mind is on the entirety of the music, not just his own part in it.

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