David Smith Group Celebrates Their CD At Cornelia Street Cafe 5/4

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.

Tonight At Cornelia Street Cafe
8:30PM David Smith GROUP
CELEBRATING THE CD ANTICIPATION
(David Smith, trumpet; Nate Radley, guitar; Garry Wang, bass; Greg Ritchie, drums; Kenji Omae, saxophone)

Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records proudly releases the new recording, Anticipation, from the Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based trumpeter/composer David Smith. The album features an outstanding rhythm section that has been Smith's working unit for the past several years, Nate Radley on guitar, the much in demand Gary Wang on bass, and fellow Canadian Greg Ritchie on drums; plus an old friend on saxophone, longtime musical colleague Kenji Omae. As you can hear on Anticipation, these are musicians with whom Smith shares a special camaraderie.
Anticipation, the follow up recording to Smith's debut recording Circumstance (2006, FSNT),is largely about the experiences in Smith's life surrounding the birth of his daughter Hannah (who appears on the cover and inside). The recording opens with the title track, which refers to "the feelings, and to some degree anxiety I felt about impending fatherhood, but also the word as a musical term." Smith explains further, "the tune is built around a three-part counterpoint in the guitar with each resulting chord anticipating the beginning and middle of each measure which ends up making for a somewhat relentless and perpetual motion throughout the song."
Cover $10 http://www.Davesmithtrumpet.com

Tue May 04
6:00PM FINISHING LINE PRESS

Ned Balbo's latest collection is the Finishing Line chapbook Something Must Happen. His second of two full-length collections, Lives of the Sleepers (University of Notre Dame Press) received the Ernest Sandeen Prize and was a ForeWord Book of the Year in poetry.
George Held's Finishing Line Press books are Grounded (2005) and The Art Of Writing (2007). His poems, stories, and book reviews appear regularly online and in print.

Maria Lisella has written two chapbooks, Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press) and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada). She is a member of the online poetry circle, Brevitas and is the Program Coordinator for the Italian American Writers Association's readings at Cornelia St. Café.

Katrinka Moore's chapbook, This is Not a Story, won the New Women's Voices prize and was published by Finishing Line Press in 2003. Her latest book, Thief was a runner-up for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and a finalist in the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize and Cleveland State UFirst Book competitions.

Leah Maines is former Poet-in-Residence of Northern Kentucky University, is the author of the Cincinnati/Tri-State Best Seller Looking to the East with Western Eyes (Finishing Line Press, 1998), and Beyond the River (KWC Press, 2002), winner of the Kentucky Writers' Coalition Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is currently Senior Editor of Finishing Line Press.

Linda Leedy Schneider is the editor of Mentor's Bouquet, Finishing Line Press, March 2010. She is a poetry and writing mentor, Pushcart nominee, and psychotherapist in private practice and has written five collections of poetry including Through My Window: Poetry of a Psychotherapist.

Melora Walters is the author of the forthcoming Sonnets and Failures, Finishing Line Press, winner of the 2010 Starting Gate Award. She is also an actress who plays Wanda Henrickson on the HBO hit series, Big Love.

Maria Terrone is the author of two poetry collections: A Secret Room in Fall (McGovern Prize winner, Ashland Poetry Press, 2006) and The Bodies We Were Loaned (The Word Works, 2002) as well as a recently published chapbook, American Gothic, Take 2 (Finishing Line Press).