Cornelia Street Cafe Announces This Weekends Events

This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe, Fri Mar 12 9:00PM & 10:30PM. The cafe presents WHIRRR! THE MUSIC OF Jimmy Giuffre 

(Joel Harrison, guitar; George Schuller, drums; Marty Ehrlich, woodwinds; Ohad Talmour, wooodwinds; Jacob Garchik, trombone/accordion; Cameron Brown, bass)

Joel Harrison and George Schuller present: A tribute to Jimmy Guiffre
Harrison, Schuller and band will perform rarely heard gems from Guiffre's canon both as a sextet and in smaller units. Guiffre, who died this year, was an inspiration as a player and composer. He charted new directions in "chamber-jazz", in groups with Jim Hall and Bob Brookmeyer, and Paul Bley and Steve Swallow.
Cover $12 http://www.joelharrison.com

Sat Mar 13 9:00PM & 10:30PM
MICHAEL ATTIAS RENKU + 2
(Michaël Attias, alto saxophone; John Hébert, bass; Satoshi Takeishi, drums; + Kirk Knuffke, trumpet; Russ Lossing, piano)

A renku is a form of Japanese poetry that originated over one thousand years ago. Here, superfine and somewhat under-recognized saxophonist Michaël Attias uses the renku as an interactive jazz frontier with his crack rhythm section. The musicians have performed on and off since 2004. Unsurprisingly, their intuition and synergy looms rather prolifically throughout. Thus, Attias is one of the best in the biz, and this 2009 endeavor, Renku in Coimbra (Clean Feed) reemphasizes that notion in glimmering fashion.The trio attains a translucent balance, where sheer might, eloquence and capacious movements ride atop buoyant, asymmetrical pulses.
- Glenn Astarita, www.jazzreview.com
Cover $10 http://www.michaelattias.com

Sun Mar 14 8:30PM
THE WEE TRIO
CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF CAPITOL DINER VOL. 2
(James Westfall, vibraphone; Dan Loomis, bass; Jared Schonig, drums)

Hailed by critics as "the ambassadors of the genre's future," praised for "stirring up jazz you don't have to be old to enjoy," and credited for delivering "lightning in a bottle," The Wee Trio, featuring James Westfall (vibes), Dan Loomis (bass) and Jared Schonig (drums), exploded onto the scene in 2008 with their debut CD, Capitol Diner, Vol. 1 (which brilliantly captured the energy, eclecticism and excellence of the band's birthplace, Brooklyn, NY). This March the critically-acclaimed Trio releases the much-anticipated follow up recording, Capitol Diner Vol. 2 Animal Style, an album that was recorded at Piety Street Studios in New Orleans (studio of choice for Dave Mathews Band, Cassandra Wilson, John Scofield, Harry Connick Jr., etc), but built on the road in California during the band's tour in support of Vol. 1.

"The Wee Trio often veers from the expected...questioning the rules of jazz orthodoxy. They keep the music substantive and riddled with direction surprises. Definitely a group to watch. "
- Downbeat

"an immediate musical simpatico"
- The New Orleans Times Picayune
Cover $10 http://www.theweetrio.com

Spoken Word

Fri Mar 12
6:00PM SON OF PONY
(Wendy Barker, featured poet)
The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.

Wendy Barker's fifth collection of poetry is a novel in prose poems called Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years, which was runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and published in 2009 by Del Sol Press. She has received NEA and Rockefeller fellowships, among other honors, and is Poet-in-Residence at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is married to the critic and biographer Steven G. Kellman.
Jackie Sheeler, host. Cover $7

Sat Mar 13
6:00PM ITALIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION
Italian American Writers Association, featured readers are: Kara Candito and Ned Balbo,
plus open mic, 5 minute limit.
Maria Lisella, host. Cover $7 http://www.iawa.net

Sun Mar 14
6:00PM "PERKS IN PURGATORY" BY VALERY OISTEANU
(Valery Oisteanu, launches his new book of poems)
"Valery Oisteanu is a Living National Treasure of an imaginal Atlantis situated somewhere between Tristan Tzara's lost Romania and the beat-mythographical Lower East side." - Peter Lamborn Wilson (Poet, philosopher, author)
"Perks in Purgatory is a juicy album filled with retinal snapshots from a slapstick apocalypse, a Mongolian cluster of dream scenarios, surreal encounters, and extraordinary events. Oisteanu's magnetic rhythms conjure telluric forces, twitchy little storms in the diaphragm. This Zen daddy trickster takes Gentle Reader on a whirlwind tour of the outer limits, endlessly spinning tales as old as Homer, as fresh as milk." - Max Blagg (poet, performer, editor of Bald Ego magazine)

"Valery's like a priest with a stopwatch, running through the world, consecrating everything. Valery "Poet-Philosopher-Extoller" Oisteanu lives in three centuries and nine continents at once. A savage and gifted raconteur, dream-cartographer and Zen Dada high priest, Oisteanu is an excellent tour guide through New Jersey, Bucharest and the Upper No-Mind. Valery Oisteanu is a tenured professor at the "Buddha University in space." - Sparrow (poet,author, performer)

Cover $7

Mon Mar 15
6:00PM NEW YORK QUARTERLY
(Norman Stock; Pui Ying Wong; Sampson Starkweather)

Ted Jonathan, host. Cover $7
MORRISON MOTEL
John Morrison's monthly comedy quickie--some of the smartest, most politically savvy comedians in or passing through New York make and unmake their bed here before some soon to be deported illegal third world alien comes in to clean it all up . . .
"One of the city's best alt-comedy shows."
- The NY Post

John Morrison writes:
Fellow Fan of the Motel,

So what were you planning to do with your Presidents' Day evening? Exactly. No better way to spend this Monday night than with good friends and great humor.

Good friend and great comic Ross Bennett will headline. Lucky us. Emmy-award winning writer and political satirist A. Whitney Brown, back by popular demand. Rachel Feinstein will be here, fresh from her latest Comedy Central special. Mother of all comics and funny lady Robin Fox returns as well, bless her heart. Motel regulars David Cope and Mick Diflo round out the cast, joined by up and comer Owen Bowness. And you? We'll leave the light on...
John Morrison, host. Cover $10 http://www.myspace.com/morrisongod

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