Cornelia Street Cafe Features Landon Knoblock Trio, 4/14

Tonight, April 14, the LanDon Knoblock Trio will be performing at the Cornelia Street Cafe at 29 Cornelia Street.  the performance takes place at 6PM and admission is $10.

The LanDon Knoblock Trio pushes the boundaries of the modern piano trio. The group blends improvisation and composed music, drawing influences from jazz, rock, avant-garde and ambient. Drummer Jeff Davis's inventive playing merges seamlessly with the fluid and dynamic approach of bassist Josh Paris, while LanDon Knoblock's distinct character on piano completes a unique musical landscape. This group explores melody, harmony, color and texture with fearless abandon. Don't miss it.

LanDon Knoblock is a creative pianist, an ambitious composer, and an adventurous improviser. Living in Brooklyn, by way of Miami, he has performed with Katie Bull, Matt Wilson, Kevin Mahogany, Kendra Shank, Joel Frahm, Frank Kimbrough and Antonello Salis. He has also released two albums of original and improvised music, the latest released on CAMjazz to critical acclaim. Knoblock's additional projects include a quartet with esteemed New York trumpeter Ron Horton, a quintet dedicated to the music of Andrew Hill, with saxophonist Oscar Noriega, the improvised music trio Creatures With Striking Features with Chicago native Phil Doyle, and an improvisatory duo with Miami based drummer Jason Furman.
 
 For more information, visit:  http://Www.LandonKnoblock.com.

In May 1977 three artists--Robin Hirsch, a writer and director; Charles McKenna, an actor; and Raphaela Pivetta, a visual artist--stumbled across a tiny storefront on Cornelia Street in the heart of Greenwich Village and thought it the perfect place to open a café. For two months they scraped and sanded, plumbed and plastered, and did the intricate dance one does with the authorities who live beyond the Village, and on the weekend of July 4, 1977, mirabile dictu, they opened the Cornelia Street Café.

It was from the beginning an artists' café. Within a month there were poetry readings and music performances; and then a tiny play written for the café; and fiction writers; and Eskimo poetry; and puppeteers; and a living portrait of James Joyce; and the Four Quartets and the entire Iliad; and mime shows on the street outside the café; and comedians; and fairy tales and storytellers and Punch and Judy shows.

Over the years it has presented an enormous variety of artists, from singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to poet-senator Eugene McCarthy, from members of Monty Python to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It has offered a performance home to the Songwriters Exchange, the Writers Room, the Writers Studio, the Greek-American Writers Association, the Italian-American Writers Association, the New Works Project/Theatre, and many others.

There is also a performance space downstairs where the tradition of theater, performance, music and poetry is alive and well. As Mayor Edward Koch said in a proclamation celebrating the café's 10^th anniversary in 1987, it has become "a culinary as well as a cultural landmark."

 

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