Featured tellers: Scott Gawlicki, Jean Le Bec, Leslie Goshko, Adam Wade

Have a 5-minute story to tell? Sign up for our 5-for-5 open mic!

 $10.00 includes a drink 

Award winning bassist and composer Petros Klampanis, presents new music, as well as music from his two recent albums 'Chroma' & 'Minor Dispute'.

"Petros Klampanis is a musician who has always spoken from the heart." --DownBeat Magazine

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.petrosklampanis.com

STREAMING LINK: www.youtube.com/petrosklampanisvideo

There will be a special performance by Viennese jazz musician Edith Lettner on saxophone and duduk, accompanied by Paul Freefall.

Other participants include Austin Alexis, Madeline Artenberg, Farid Bitar, Laura Castro, Rick Eckerle, Sam Friedman, Gordon Gilbert, Evie Ivy, Mindy Levokove, Keisha Miles, Helen Peterson, Helen Tzagoloff, Anoek Van Praag, and Robin Hirsch.

 $10.00 includes a drink 

Saxophonist/Pianist/Composer Mitch Marcus will be performing compositions new and old with this stellar trio.

The Invaders Trio brings together a number of diverse elements to create a sound unique to the standard piano trio. They play through-composed melodies intertwined with free improvisation, all the while swinging, mixed-meter grooves with intensity and a lively, dynamic interplay. Inspired by the likes of Ahmad Jamal, and Medeski, Martin, Wood, in the same breadth. With Mitch Marcus also on tenor saxophone (in addition to piano) the band twists and turns through a wide array of sounds. They have a brand new release about to come out within the next few months.

"Although its music is grounded in blues, bop and other time-honored constructs, the MM Invaders Trio is not your usual jazz band. In fact, their adventurous tunes, use of unusual meters and delightfully manic arrangements travel far beyond conventional musical borders."--“All About Jazz”

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.mitchmarcusmusic.com

Based in NYC for the past decade, Israeli saxophonist/composer Uri Gurvich was hailed as "a major new voice in jazz" (All Music Guide) and his music has been described as "transcending borders" (LA Times). He brings his Trio to Cornelia St. Cafe to present globally influenced work from his latest album, Kinship, as well as new work. "Jazz is an indigenous American art form, but it is also a thoroughly global enterprise. And few of the music's practitioners embody its universality more completely than saxophonist Uri Gurvich." - Downbeat

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.urigurvich.com

 $10.00 includes a drink    http://redhen.org/

With his 2014 release acoustic & electric trio austrian piano player Martin Reiter wanted to focus more on his trio with bassist Matthias Pichler and drummer Peter Kronreif. Both favorite sidemen had moved to NYC which made working kind of complicated. So Reiter chose the Big Apple as place for a reunion to present his new trio program “M.A.Z.” to the public. Reiter is one of Europe´s most important pianists and has a distinctive style of composing and playing. His compositions never lack strong melodic development while being rhythmically and harmonically advanced and challenging. The trio masters all those musical challenges with joy and ease and lets the listener dive into an ocean of sparkling sound.

Martin Reiter, one of Europe’s most promising piano players presents his new acoustic trio program “M.A.Z.” to the NYC-audience.

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.martinreiter.com ,  http:///www.facebook.com/reitermartinj/

STREAMING LINK: www.youtube.com/channel/UCNTnwaqbqBCLdgO1Xlua35A

Tonight, featuring Ron Kolm, Eve Packer, Evie Ivy, Mindy Matijasevic, Demetrius Daniel, Ronnie Norpel, Hillary Keel, Francine Witte, Viviana Duncan, Gordon Gilbert, Mitch Corber, and Linda Lerner.

 $10.00 includes a drink 

Program will include the second NYC performance of The Hope I Hold, a new work by Ryan Keberle & Catharsis made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s 2016 New Jazz Works program funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.ryankeberle.com

 $10.00 cover plus $10.00 minimum    http://jeffkrol.com

Using close interplay, violent counterpoint, and creative interpretations of original music – the ensemble searches for the unpredictable and explores the unexpected.

“Jacob Sacks is a pianist of exploratory temperament, drawn to open space and shrewd irresolution.” Nate Chinen--New York Times

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.jacobsacks.com

 $45.00 includes dinner    http://www.thisisnotatheatrecompany.com

This month's show features Emily Wilson, Zach Teague, Ashlynn Salzano, Santi Espinosa!

Headliner: Wendi Starling (Glamourpuss)

 $10.00 includes a drink    http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-jen-jimmy-show-tickets-42101324194

Award winning soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom returns to Cornelia Street Cafe with her trio to perform songs from their critically acclaimed releases “Early Americans,” “Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson“ and beyond. Longtime band-mates Mark Helias (bass) and Bobby Previte (drums) join Bloom for an evening of high wire improvisation over the groove. The band’s 2018 appearances include performances at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Iowa City Jazz Festival, The San Francisco Jazz Center, and the Provincetown Playhouse at NYU. Don’t miss these fearless American originals live in NYC.

“Burning, deeply empathetic trio chemistry” -- Ian Patterson, All About Jazz

 $15 cover plus $10 minimum 

 $10.00 includes a drink 

 $10.00 cover plus $10.00 minimum    http://www.hannahreimann.com ,  http://www.facebook.com/womanofheartandmind/

 $10.00 includes a drink    http://Stevewilliamsbass.com ,  http://www.facebook.com/stephen.williams.7906

Logan Strosahl Spec Ops is a trio--consisting of Allan Mednard, Henry Fraser, and Logan Strosahl—that plays both songs from great Jazz composers as well as the originals of the leader. High-energy interaction, sustained solo sections, and music that draws on a wide variety of “source material” (such as Turkish and Argentinian rhythms, free jazz, and Baroque recitative) to create constantly morphing, visceral soundscapes are hallmarks of this group. On this date, they will be playing songs from their upcoming album Sure, to be released on Sunnyside Records.

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.loganstrosahl.com

This is captivating music - exciting, surprising, moving - it doesn't let go. The ethos of Edith Lettner's music demands an open musical landscape of creative ideas free of stylistic limitations. Her New York quartet Edith Lettner Jazz Heart is comprised of like-minded, musicians dedicated to playing original compositions. Theirs is complex music; harmonies are simultaneously juxtaposed with atonal melodies and solos, and rhythms vary over a wide spectrum both within and between compositions in what Lettner describes as "groove creations". Jazz Heart will play tunes from Edith's latest, and much praised album, TAKING OFF, (recorded with her European jazz ensemble, Freemotion). New compositions by Lettner and other band members will round out the set.

"The Austrian alto and soprano saxophonist accomplishes the lofty artistic pursuit with graceful ingenuity, as she fronts her [jazz ensemble]. She wields a grainy, vigorous tone on saxophones, and often favors searing melodies that brim with braying and growling dissonance. And while the compositions on [her new CD]Taking Off undoubtedly tilt toward the avant-garde, the music still can swing hard."--John Murph - DownBeat Magazine, July 2018

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://edith-lettner.net/