Cornelia Street Cafe Announces Weekend Line-Up Featuring Jesse Stacken Trio

Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street between West 4th and Bleecker, Greenwich Village) announces their weekend line-up featuring Jesse Stacken Trio tonight, German Jazz Group Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House on Saturday, and Michael Bates' Outside Sources +1 on Sunday.  The Cafe also features the Spoken Word each weekend night at 6:00pm.  Poet Cynthia Cruz, Son of Pony, will lead the Open Mic on Friday; Greek-American Writers Association on Saturday and celebrating their 5th Anniversary Shakepeare Anyone! 

Jesse Stacken Trio will perform Friday, April 16th at 9:00 PM & 10:30 PM.  Jesse Stacken, piano/composer; Eivind Opsvik, bass and Jeff Davis, drums, celebrate the release of it's second Fresh Sound album "Magnolia."  Cover is $10 and more information on the Trio can be found at http://www.jessestacken.com

 

Formed in 2005, the Jesse Stacken Trio has developed into an ensemble that explores the depths of the piano trio format. The instrument roles, improvisation, and form structures have been re-examined, reconstructed and expanded. The result is music that is fresh, exciting, and free. In 2008, the group released "That That" on Fresh Sound records to critical acclaim.

 

Saturday, April 17th at 9:00 PM and 10:30 PM Ingrid Laubrock's Anti-House (Ingrid Laubrock, tenor and soprano saxophone; Mary Halvorson, guitar; John Hébert, bass; Tom Rainey, drums) will perform. Cover $10 more information on the band at http://www.ingridlaubrock.com.

German 2009 SWR-Jazz Prize winner Ingrid Laubrock has recently moved to NY from London.Her new project brings together a cast of some of her favorite creative musicians, all equally comfortable with improvisation and interpreting composed material. The seamlessly blended, multi-layered and movie-like music leaves plenty of space for each musician to express themselves in their own unique way.

"Some young jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping their place. Ingrid Laubrock, a German saxophonist who started her career in London and has spent the last 15 years playing there, sounds happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, she's omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere (...) You didn't walk away thinking, well, that sounded like a certain person, place or time. Ms. Laubrock encouraged its constant sense of renewal."
Ben Ratliff/New York Times

Michael Bates' Outsidet Sources +1 featuring Russ Johnson, trumpet; Quinsin Nachoff, saxophone, clarinet; Oscar Noriega, bass clarinet; Jeff Davis, drums; and Michael Bates, bass will perform at 8:30 PM on Sunday, April 18th.  Cover is $10 and complete band information can be found at http://www.outsidesources.org.

Spoken Word Series features the following artist:
Friday, April 16 SON OF PONY, Cynthia Cruz is the featured poet.  The Friday night legendary open mic poetry serie.  Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. Coveris $7.

Cynthia Cruz is the author of Ruin, which was published in 2006 by Alice James Books. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, and others. Her second collection is forthcoming from Four Way Books. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is the Visiting Writer at the Rutgers-Newark MFA Program in Creative Writing. In the fall of 2010 she will be the Hodder Fellow in poetry.
Kat Georges, host.

Satuday, April 17th at 6:00PM GREEK-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION with Mark Dow; Dimitri Lyacos; Melinda Thomsen with host Dean Kostos.  Cover is $7.

Sunday, April 18th at 6:00PM will feautre SHAKESPEARE ANYONE? with Amanda Barron; P J Escobio; Josh Shirley; and Carey Van Driest.  Timepieces.  Exploring reflections while living in the moment of time through romances of Romeo and Juliet, as well as Rosalind and Orlando in As you like it, Hamlet's conversation with the Gravedigger, Macbeth and Banquos first meeting with the Soothsaying witches, Queen Margaret's lament from Richard III . The early relationship of Prince Hal and Falstaff, Jacques's All the world's a Stage, Sonnets and more.

The Shakespeare Anyone? Players will be Amanda Barron, P J Escobio, Josh Shirley, and Carey Van Driest. THey will be celebrating their fifth anniversary. P J Escobio is the host.

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ 
212-989-9319
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com
29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 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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