Cornelia Street Cafe Features Deathblow, Jeff Davis Band, et al., 9/6-13

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ
29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York    212-989-9319
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village
1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St.

This Week At Cornelia Street Cafe:

Mon  Sep 06
8:30PM     AMRAM AND COMPANY
(David Amram, piano, french horn, flutes, composition & surprises; Kevin Twigg, drums, glockenspiel; John de Witt, bass; Adam Amram, percussion; Joe Pacheco, poet)
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   http://www.davidamram.com

Tue  Sep 07
8:30PM     DEATHBLOW
(Amanda Monaco, guitar; Michaël Attias, alto, baritone saxophones; Sean Conly, bass; Satoshi Takeishi, drums)
A group that doesn't have anything to do with its name, Deathblow is a jazz and improvisational music quartet that combines free-bop sensibilities with through-composed pieces equal parts textural, adventurous, and whimsical. Deathblow performs a mix of Monaco's original compositions and modern twists on classic and obscure jazz repertoire. Their latest CD, I Think I'll Keep You, was released by LateSet Records.

"Amanda Monaco's compositions take some time to absorb; consider them to be a multi-course gourmet meal for a jazz fan's ears, rather than the all-too-common bland, empty calorie fast food that attempts to pass for creative improvised music." All Music Guide
Cover $10   http://www.amandamonaco.com

Tue  Sep 07
10:00PM     RYAN BLOTNICK TRIO + SAM BARSH
(Ryan Blotnick, guitar; Sam Barsh, piano, keyboards; Perry Wortman, bass; Aaron McLendon, drums)
Guitarist Ryan Blotnick has been called "a vital contemporary voice"by Time Out New York, "an authentic, compelling player" by CadenceMagazine, and has garnered praise from guitarists John Abercrombie,Steve Cardenas and Ben Monder. Tuesday's concert will feature some of his oldest musical cohorts playing his newest and grooviest compositions to date. When Ryan was sixteen he left Maine to attend William Paterson's jazz program and was lucky to enough to be in afreshman class with Aaron McLendon and Sam Barsh. He recalls when McLendon broke his arm and had to relearn drums with only his lefthand and play a one-armed Dialogue Day concert. Afterwards legendary pianist Harold Mabern exclamed "that drummer swings so hard I would hire him with one arm!" Meanwhile Barsh (then Bar-Sheshet) was shedding constantly in his room, which had become sort of a hang outspot. He would be running scales with the sound turned off while simultaneously holding conversation, inventing his own slang, and cracking everybody up. While Blotnick's music can often be on the introspective side, we can expect a particularlyhigh-energy set from this New Group featuring the "pianist with the gift of groove" Nate Chinen, New York Times and a dynamite rhythm section.

Sam Barsh has been based in New York City since 2001, but has traveled all over the world sharing his music and the music of others. His own group, the Sam Barsh Band, performs his funky blend of jazz, r&b and slick ambient grooves. The band has 2 albums, 2008's "I Forgot WhatYou Taught Me" and 2007's "Live." From 2003 through 2006, Barsh was a member of the renowned Avishai Cohen Trio. With Cohen, Barsh recorded 3 albums and a live DVD, performed at many of the world's biggest jazz festivals and received much international acclaim. Barsh has had the good fortune to perform with a diverse group of artists throughout his career, including Avishai Cohen, Cassandra Wilson, Jeff Parker, Boyz II Men, Bobby McFerrin, The Brand New Heavies, Robin Eubanks, Debbie Friedman, Branford Marsalis, Lonnie Plaxico, Christophe Schweizer, Dave Samuels (of Spyro Gyra), Ku'umba Frank Lacy, Rez Abbasi, Kenny Wollessen, Nguyen Le, and Ben Monder.
 Cover $10   http://www.ryanblotnick.com/sound.html

Wed  Sep 08
8:30PM     ROGERIO SOUZA
(Rogerio Souza, 7 string guitar; Billy Newman, guitar; Joao Hermeto, pandeiro; Kiko de Acordeon, accordion)
Rogerio Souza, one of the leading exponents of Choro and Samba music from Rio de Janeiro will give a performance of original compositions and famous Brazilian Instrumental Standards. He will be accompanied by some of the finest musicians from Rio and Billy Newman Guitarist/Composer from NYC.
Rogerio's guitar playing and composing is informed by a language and aesthetic rarely heard in New York City. His swing and virtuosity has contributed to the groups of Paulinho de Viola, Epoca de Ouro, No em Pinga de Agua and Ivan Lins amongst others.
 Cover $15   http://www.myspace.com/rogeriosouzaviolao

Thu  Sep 09
8:30PM     Jeff Davis BAND
(Jeff Davis, drums, compositions; Kirk Knuffke, trumpet; Oscar Noriega, alto sax, clarinet; Jon Goldberger, guitar; Eivind Opsvik, bass)
Jeff Davis is known as the "propulsive force" behind a host New York mainstays, including bassist Michael Bates, multireedist Oscar Noriega, pianists Jesse Stacken and LanDon Knoblock. On his debut album, We Sleep Outside, Jeff Davis showcases his command of a deeply focused and distinctly improvisational stylE. Davis guides his band just to The Edge of chaos while at the same time exercising focus and restraint. Davis' band has been working together since 2006, and features some of New York's great improvisers, including Oscar Noriega, Kirk Knuffke, Jon Goldberger, and Eivind Opsvik. Together, the group blurs the line between composition and improvisation, with equal focus on collective improvisation and the individual soloist. It is just this approach that results in a sound both minimalist in construction and intensely complex in approach.
The New York Times Jazz Listings by Nate ChinenJeff Davis BAND "We Sleep Outside" (Loyal Label) is the restlessly episodic debut by Jeff Davis, a drummer of broad experience in left-of-center jazz circles.
 Cover $10   http://www.jeffdavisdrums.com

Fri  Sep 10
9:00PM & 10:30PM     THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
(Chris Speed, clarinet, tenor saxophone; Matt Moran, vibraphone; Ted Reichman, accordian; Drew Gress, acoustic bass; John Hollenbeck, drums; Special Guest - Matt Mitchell, piano)
This brilliant New York band led by drummer and composer John Hollenbeck - a leader of a new generation of musicians who have brought together many disparate threads of contemporary music to create a new sound - recasts jazz in shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock.
The Claudia Quintet embraces the textural freedom of electronic sounds and improvisation, the structural ambition of contemporary classical music, and most importantly, the joy of bodacious grooves and unapologetically gorgeous melodies. For this ensemble, Hollenbeck has assembled a group of the foremost innovators in this new sound to create a powerhouse band. The quintet's one-of-a-kind "jazz and beyond" sound, with massive emotional depth, comes organically from the uncanny interplay of its virtuosos: Drew Gress (John Surman, Uri Caine, Ravi Coltrane), Matt Moran (Slavic Soul Party, Mat Maneri, Theo Bleckmann), Ted Reichman (Anthony Braxton, Marc Ribot, Paul Simon), and Chris Speed (Human Feel, Bloodcount, AlasNoAxis), accompanied by guest pianist Gary Versace, best known for his work with John Scofield, John Abercrombie and Maria Schneider. Their beautifully seductive work features propulsive grooves, catchy melodies and improvisation that is nothing short of telepathic.

"This is a true ensemble from top to bottom, a sonic equivalent to a hand-woven tapestry...Impressive." DownBeat

more info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0j0PxAw1kk 
Cover $15   http://www.JOHNHOLLENBECK.COM

Sat  Sep 11
9:00PM & 10:30PM     THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
(Chris Speed, clarinet,tenor saxophone; Matt Moran, vibraphone; Ted Reichman, accordion; Drew Gress, acoustic bass; John Hollenbeck, drums; Special Guest - Matt Mitchell, piano)
This brilliant New York band led by drummer and composer John Hollenbeck - a leader of a new generation of musicians who have brought together many disparate threads of contemporary music to create a new sound - recasts jazz in shimmering new shapes inflected by classical minimalism, new music, progressive rock and post-rock.
The Claudia Quintet embraces the textural freedom of electronic sounds and improvisation, the structural ambition of contemporary classical music, and most importantly, the joy of bodacious grooves and unapologetically gorgeous melodies. For this ensemble, Hollenbeck has assembled a group of the foremost innovators in this new sound to create a powerhouse band. The quintet's one-of-a-kind "jazz and beyond" sound, with massive emotional depth, comes organically from the uncanny interplay of its virtuosos: Drew Gress (John Surman, Uri Caine, Ravi Coltrane), Matt Moran (Slavic Soul Party, Mat Maneri, Theo Bleckmann), Ted Reichman (Anthony Braxton, Marc Ribot, Paul Simon), and Chris Speed (Human Feel, Bloodcount, AlasNoAxis), accompanied by guest pianist Gary Versace, best known for his work with John Scofield, John Abercrombie and Maria Schneider. Their beautifully seductive work features propulsive grooves, catchy melodies and improvisation that is nothing short of telepathic.

"This is a true ensemble from top to bottom, a sonic equivalent to a hand-woven tapestry...Impressive." DownBeat

more info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0j0PxAw1kk 
 Cover $15   http://www.JOHNHOLLENBECK.COM

Sun  Sep 12
9:00PM & 10:30PM     SLEEPTHIEF
(Ingrid Laubrock, saxophone; Liam Noble, piano; Tom Rainey, drums)
Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's acclaimed trio Sleepthief will play a rare performance in New York. Her collaborators of many years, inventive UK pianist Liam Noble (Moondog,Kenny Wheeler) and one of New York's finest drummers, Tom Rainey (Tim Berne, Kenny Werner, Mark Helias etc) join her for an exciting brand of new improvised music. Expect a wide spectrum of sound, rhythm, space and colour.
Press: [...] Noble almost trips across the same ready reckoner of easy descriptors when he produces something like zither effects on the same track, not inside the sound-box either but on the keys. Rainey, who's titanic throughout, alternates abstract shapes with no obvious line and patterns that seem to fall a half-beat ahead of or behind any familiar count, only to hammer out a Black Rod motto about four minutes in, switch to Pik-Up-Stix, then full scale assault as Laubrock launches into her fiercest playing of the album and Noble plays nursery rhymes and big, blocky kids-fist clusters behind. Then he does something like an accelerated stride. And we're still not twenty minutes into the album. Brian Morton/Point Of Departure.
 Cover $10   http://www.ingridlaubrock.com

Mon  Sep 13
6:00PM     MONOLOGUES & MADNESS
Actors, time limits, laughter, tears, our floorboards are used to perfection.
An Evening of Original Monologues. No slamming, no judges, just great material, excellent actors and YOU.

Come See These Amazing Daredevils Perform Without a Net!!!

$10 includes a drink, what a bargain!!
 Tulis McCall, host.  Cover $10   http://www.monologuesandmadness.com