Adam Kolker Group Plays Cornelia Cafe April 28

Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, welcomes Adam Kolker Group tonight at 8:30 PM.  The Band features Adam Kolker, saxophones; Russ Lossing, piano; Johannes Weidenmuller, bass; and Jeff Davis on drums.  Cover is $10. More information on the band http://www.adamkolker.com. Also tonight at the Cafe The Spoken Word series continues with Hydrogen Jukebox with Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges starting at 6:00 PM.  Cover is $7.  For more information on both events as well as other Cornelia Cafe events visit www.corneliastreetcafe.com.

Wed Apr 28th 8:30PM
ADAM KOLKER GROUP
(Adam Kolker, saxophones; Russ Lossing, piano; Johannes Weidenmuller, bass; Jeff Davis, drums)

" What a rich, unpretentiously modern record is "Flag Day" (Sunnyside) by the jazz saxophonist Adam Kolker. He plays these songs - five originals; one Monk piece, the standard "Last Night When We Were Young"; and "Don't Let It Bring You Down" by Neil Young - with restraint, letting his ideas flow but never filling up all available space. He's a real improviser, making impulsive choices about phrasing and how to imply a chord, giving each of his notes a strong, strange character. The group is a little hive of wisdom, including the guitarist John Abercrombie, the bassist John Hebert and the drummer Paul Motian, whose aura of relaxed play, or what some people still call cool, is almost a physical presence here. Ben Ratliff - New York Times
Cover $10 http://www.adamkolker.com

Wed Apr 28th 6:00PM
HYDROGEN JUKEBOX
(PETER CARLAFTES; KAT GEORGES)
Poetry-Music Reading Series with the Hydro Juke improv band, The Ne'er-do-wells.
Open mic-sign up (arrive early to make the list).

PETER CARLAFTES is a New York-based comic author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, poet, and director. He's authored 12 plays, including a noir treatment of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, and the celebrity rehab center spoof, Spin-Dry. He has appeared in numerous off-Broadway productions, including his comic solo performance piece, Lenny Bruce: Dead & Well. His critically-acclaimed humor book, A Year on Facebook, was issued by Three Rooms Press in January 2010. The following month Three Rooms also published DrunkYard Dog, a collection of his poetry and plays

Poet, playwright and director KAT GEORGES wrote and directed 15 plays during her 10-year tenure as artistic director of San Francisco's Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater, including SCUM: The Valerie Solanas Story, Paglia in Persona ,and Art Was Here. She has three collections of her poetry, Punk Rock Journal, Maiden Claiming, and Slow Dance at 120 Beats a Minute (all Three Rooms Press). In New York since 2003, she has directed numerous off-Broadway plays, most recently Jack Kerouac: Catholic, Memo from Allen Ginsberg, and Twitter Theater, all written by award-winning playwright Larry Myers; The Old In-and-Out by Madeline Artenberg and Karen Hildebrand; and Sarah's Choice, by Peter Carlaftes. She co-curates the poetry series Son of a Pony at Cornelia Street Cafe.
Brant Lyon, host. Cover $7

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.

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