Cornelia Street Cafe Feat. Comedy Festivals, CD Release, Live Performance, 8/17

This Week At Cornelia Street Cafe:

Monday, August 16 

8:30PM Cornelia Comedy Festival

Features John Morrison, comedian; John Oliver, comedian; Wyatt Cenac, comedian; Pat Dixon, comedian; Leo Allen, comedian; Mark Normand, comedian; Sean Donnelly, comedian.
John Morrison hosts John Oliver, Wyatt Cenac, Pat Dixon, Leo Allen, Mark Normand & Sean Donnelly.

Cover $10 (plus $ 7 Drink Minimum)

Tuesday, August 17

6:00PM Private Party

8:30PM Cornelia Comedy Festival/Todd Barry and Friends

Todd Barry, comedian; Rachel Feinstein, comedian; Jared Logan, comedian; Mike Lawrence, comedian; David Cope, comedian; Blaine Perry, comedian; Sean Donnelly, comedian.
Sean Donnelly hosts Todd Barry, Rachel Feinstein, Jared Logan, Mike Lawrence, David Cope & Blaine Perry.

Cover $10 (plus $ 7 Drink Minimum)

Wednesday, August 18

8:30PM Cornelia's Comedy Festival/'Politics: Left, Right, Wrong'

Myq Kaplan, comedian; Jamie Kilstein, comedian; Stephen Kruiser, comedian; Frank Vignola, comedian; Harry Terjanian, comedian; John Morrison, comedian; Brian Longwell, comedian; Julia Gorin, comedian.
Politics from the left and right with: Myq Kaplan, Jamie Kilstein,Stephen Kruiser,Frank Vignola, Harry Terjanian, John Morrison, Brian Longwell & Julia Gorin.

Cover $10 (plus $ 7 Drink Minimum)

Thursday, August 19

8:30PM Michael Attias Quintet: 'Twines of Colesion' CD RELEASE

Michael Attias, alto saxophone; John Hebert, bass; Satoshi Takeishi, drums; Tony Malaby, tenor & soprano saxophone; Russ Lossing, piano.
Celebrating their brand-new Clean Feed album, 'Twines of Colesion,' the Michaël Attias Quintet gathers the entwined trajectories and prismatic contributions of five powerful and original creative musicians in a collective exploration of mutable form and combustible narrative.
Recorded live, the performances of the eight compositions on this album were picked from a series of three concerts at the 2008 Jazz ao Centro festival in Coimbra, Portugal, during the same residency which produced Attias' recent trio release Renku in Coimbra (CleanFeed). Notated sections flow in and out of spontaneously generated sub-groups, forms dissolve and reappear in ever renewed shapes and time-feels, transitions between the pieces become pieces in themselves. In a remarkable example of highly democratic 21st century jazz, each performance is an unique and unrepeatable journey and each player an agent of power and change in directing the dream-flow. Twines of Colesion sings the song of a very special and risky sort of molecular paradise. 

Cover $10 http://www.michaelattias.com.

Friday, August 20

9:00PM & 10:30PM Russ Lossing's 'Personal Tonal' CD Release

Russ Lossing, piano, compositions; Loren Stillman, alto saxophone; John Hebert, bass; Eric McPherson, drums.
New York based pianist, composer and improviser Russell Lossing has eight critically acclaimed albums as leader on HatHut Records, CleanFeed Records, Fresh Sound Records, Omnitone Records and Double Time Records. His Solo HatHut album "All Things Arise" was awarded top ten best album of the year in the Village Voice in 2006. His HatHut Cd 'As It Grows', with Paul Motian, received 'Choc' (5 stars) in JazzMan Magazine and his 'Change of Time' album (improvisations on Bartok's Mikrokosmos) was named Album Of The Decade by DownBeat Magazine (Dec. '09). Lossing's trio album 'Phrase Six' has quickly become a cult classic among musicians and his CleanFeed disc ‘Metal Rat' with Mat Maneri and Mark Dresser has been hailed a masterpiece by critics and musicians.
Russ Lossing has performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Canada in jazz festivals, jazz clubs and universities, composed over 300 compositions and 21 film scores and has done live radio interviews and performances worldwide.  

Cover $10 http://www.russlossing.com.

Saturday, August 21

9:00PM & 10:30PM Russ Lossing Oracle Trio + 2

Russ Lossing, piano, compositions; Masa Kamaguchi, bass; Billy Mintz, drums; Mat Manieri, viola; Ralph Alessi, trumpet.

Cover $10 

Sunday, August 22

8:30PM Bennett Pastor Group 

Bennett Paster, piano, compositions; Tim Armacost, tenor saxophone; Gregory Ryan, bass; Willard Dyson, drums.
Brooklyn-based composer and keyboardist Bennett Paster presents a new quartet performing his most recent compositions balanced with interesting arrangements of tunes from the standard repertoire. 

Cover $10 http://www.bennettpaster.com.

Monday, August 23

6:00PM Summer Storytelling Festival

Cornelia Street Cafe Summer Storytelling Festival presents New York's best storytellers!

Monday, August 23

Jim O'Grady-Facebook Fiasco and Other Fun Times

Leslie Goshko-Vodka Shoes: humorously navigating family journeys through alcoholism, religious zealotry, and childhood.

John Grady-Fear Factor: Canine Edition...A man/dog love story

Sherry Weaver, curator.

Cover $10 (plus $ 7 Drink Minimum)

Mika Hary Group

Mika Hary, vocals; Nir Felder, guitar; Shai Maestro, piano; Sam Minaie, bass; Ziv Ravitz, drums.

The Mika Hary Group embraces the genres of folk, rock and jazz with a touch of the Middle Eastern unique colors, in which Mika has been immersed growing up in Israel. Together with the acclaimed musicians in her band, she explores song-form infused with musical freedom, through improvisation alongside lyrical melodies. 

Cover $8 http://www.myspace.com/mikahary