JOHN McNEIL-BILL McHENRY Cd Release Party Held At Cornelia Street Cafe

This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe- Fri Sep 24th 9:00PM & 10:30PM JOHN MCNEIL/BILL MCHENRY QUARTET (John McNeil, trumpet; Bill McHenry, tenor saxophone; Jochen Rueckert, drums; Matt Penman, bass)

the JOHN McNEIL-BILL McHENRY Quartet

Celebrates the release of their new Sunnyside recording,

"Chill Morn He Climb Jenny"

Their first CD, "Rediscovery," remains extremely popular, so the boys
decided to create a marketing bonanza by hitting the public right between the eyes
with another bang-up recording. The cover of their new CD even has a nude woman,
historically a sure guarantee of platinum at the very least.

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

Sat Sep 25th 9:00PM & 10:30PM
RUSS LOSSING TRIO
(Russ Lossing, piano; John Hebert, bass; Paul Motian, 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.
"The interaction between Russ Lossing (New York pianist, composer and music theorist) and legendary drummer Paul Motian, on Lossing's disc 'Dreamer', is an absorbing case study in two intellectual musicians with very different musical styles. Lossing approaches his piano solos by developing a single motive into a chorus-long tangling and untangling session (à la Rollins). While this style can often fall predictably short, Lossing's refined talents lead to some staggering improvised discoveries. Motian's drum theory, on the other hand, often aims to free itself from consistent motives and common phrases - to the invigorating delight of some and the "just-swing-already!" frustration of others. The combination of sophisticated motivic development from the pianist and playful unpredictability from the drummer leads to a clashing of improvisational styles. Lucky for us, it works. Eric Novod, Jazz.com

"As It Grows (Hat Hut Records) is the work of a gemcutter - brilliant and precise, all facets, angles and elegant internal symmetries. Most of the tracks are brief, and even on the two longer tracks ("Nagual" and "Verse") one senses Lossing's instinct for sculpted brevity. The key relationship here is between pianist and drummer: Motian is as always marvellous, at once brash and delicate." - Signal to Noise

"Russ Lossing is expert at using space, and in some ways is a step beyond Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett, although he is not particularly derivative of any earlier pianist. Lossing is influenced by modern classical music to an extent but his playing is not unremittingly atonal. Instead, he leaves his impressionistic music open to all possibilities, mostly emphasizing dramatic ideas and unexpected silences." All Music Guide
Cover $15 http://www.russlossing.com

Sun Sep 26th 8:30PM
CONNIE CROTHERS & KEVIN NORTON
(Kevin Norton, vibraphone, percussion; Connie Crothers, piano)

Tradition and Revolution ...Grounded and Expansive ...Decades of Experience and totally open to infinite spontaneity ... "About the only predictable elements in the work of pianist/composer Crothers are honesty and originality." Lois Moody, Jazz News.
"Kevin Norton is one of the most valuable moving parts of downtown jazz." The New York Times
Cover $10

Mon Sep 27
8:30PM 21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MUSIC:THE YIN YANG OF DANA HANCHARD
(Dana Hanchard, vocals, piano, bamboo flute; Willard Dyson, drums; Jimmy Cruiz, bamboo flute, percussion; Freddie Bryant, guitar)
We're pleased to invite singer/composer Dana Hanchard back to the 21st Century Schizoid Music series. Dana is likely to show up anywhere in a myriad of musical constellations. Music has brought her to serve on several continents, appearing at concert halls, nightclubs, opera houses and jazz festivals alike. Dana began her career in music in baroque and contemporary classical music as a soprano soloist. Throughout the 1990s, She performed and recorded operas of Handel, Monteverdi and Meredith Monk and Cantatas of J.S.Bach and Music of the Mexican and South-American baroque period. When the invitation came to start up a voice program in Japan, it was an opportunity that allowed her to focus her efforts more in song writing and in musical projects of her own. Her band, the Dana Hanchard Group has been performing in Japan since 2003 playing her originals at Jazz clubs in Tokyo and Yokohama. She has done concert performances of her music around the U.S, Japan and the Middle East. Her latest recording, of all original music, Fool Tale Spinning was released in 2009 on her own Fertile Ground Music label (FGM/Aodoa).
Frank Oteri, host. Cover $10 http://www.danahanchardmusic.com