Cornelia Street Cafe Presents HOW THE PAST MOVES THROUGH TIME Tonight

Tonight At Cornelia Street Cafe 6:00PM HOW THE PAST MOVES THROUGH TIME- Thomas Pryor; Robin Hirsch; Angelo Verga

Thomas Pryor's work has appeared in The New York Times, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, A Prairie Home Companion, New York Press, Underground Voices Magazine, Opium Magazine Online, Our Town and Ducts. His story, "Madame Butterfly Goes Down", is part of Thomas Beller's anthology, Lost and Found: Stories from New York. Thomas has written his first book, Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts. His blog, (same title as the book), is listed in the Blog Roll of The New York Times City Room.
Robin Hirsch co-founded the Cornelia Street Cafe in 1977. Here, as Minister of Culture, Wine Czar, and Dean of Faculty, he manages to boss people around, drink copiously and, with the aid of Angelo Verga and other magnificent curators, produce some 700 cultural events a year; somehow, he still finds time to perform and write (Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski, MOSAIC: Fragments of a Jewish Life, FEG: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children, and innumerable checks).

Poet, teacher, editor, manuscript doctor, curator of innumerable literary events, Angelo Verga's sixth collection is a long poem set in the crooked footpaths of lower Manhattan, Praise for What Remains, Three Rooms Press, 2009. He has been widely published and anthologized, and translated into a dozen languages.
http://www.yorkvillestoopstonuts.blogspot.com/

TUE & WED JUNE 29 & 30 8:30PM ELEVATION - LIVE CD RECORDING
Abraham Burton, tenor saxophone; Lucian Ban, piano; John Hébert, bass; Eric McPherson, drums
Cover $12

" sound fractals, soaring tenor, eastern meets post bop piano, eMac's rhythm propensity, elevating sounds - ELEVATION - the new quartet from the Transylvanian expat pianist LUCIAN BAN and saxophonist ABRAHAM BURTON "one of the great tenors of our time". Together with long time collaborators and world class rhythm - JOHN HEBERT on bass and ERIC MCPHERSON on drums.

Lucian Ban recently collaborated with John Hebert on the unique Enesco Re-Imagined, Eric McPherson has been played with Mr. Burton for a more than 20 years, then the romanian born pianist has been playing duets and quartets with Abraham Burton from 2005 on going on to name their musical partnership elevation ... and Hebert & McPherson played with the late Andrew Hill for years appearing on his last blue note records album.
" If the young saxophonist Abraham Burton was ever to be drawn in a cartoon, he'd have flames coming out of his saxophone" - NY Times

"Ban plays with a fluency and sensibility that recalls Vladimir Horowitz as much as McCoy Tyner" - Terrell Holmes , All About Jazz NY

"Eric McPherson is at the vanguard of his generation's creative music drummers. His command of multiple percussion instruments is matched by the originality, electricity, versatility and sensitivity he adds to the continuum of the music" - WinterJazzFest

"Hebert's fractured ostinatos are a thing of wonder." - Chris May, All About Jazz

For more info:
http://www.lucianban.com