Tuesday, January 19th ESP-Disk’ LIVE @ The Bowery Poetry Club 10pm Flaherty-Corsano-Carter Paul Flaherty – alto and tenor sax Chris Corsano – drums Daniel Carter - woodwinds and trumpet 11pm Joe Morris Trio (ESP 4056) Joe Morris – guitar Steve Lantner – piano Luther Gray – drums Featuring Ugly Duckling Press poets Eugene Ostashevsky & Elizabeth Reddin before the sets The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery New York, NY 10012 Between Houston and Bleecker F train to 2nd Ave or 6 train to Bleecker

About Flaherty-Corsano Duo

Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano deliver duo-fire improv. For over a decade, their high-energy sax (Flaherty) and drums (Corsano) freeform improvisations have garnered international attention and earned them praise such as the following from Dusted Magazine’s Charlie Wilmoth: “More than thirty years after the death of Albert Ayler, Flaherty and Corsano’s music is the most compelling evidence I’ve heard in some time that music like this still needs to be played.”

Since 1998, Flaherty & Corsano have covered much ground in the U.S. and Europe, playing live as a duo as well as in collaborations with other musicians enamored with the freedom principle. They’ve thrown down with fistfuls of modern music’s most burnin’ proponents: Tony Conrad, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Joe McPhee, C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Greg Kelley, Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, Matt Heyner, Christina Carter & Heather Leigh Murray (Scorces), Steve Baczkowski (Buffalo, NY’s unsung baritone hero) and plenty of others.

And when not found in larger group settings, the duo’s focus is the heightened empathy the pair has developed over the years of tours and recordings. Or, as Chad Oliveiri of the Rochester City Paper writes, “Together, this duo is more than capable of sheer transcendence.”

See www.cor-sano.com for tour dates, mp3s, discographies, past shows, photos, etc.

“[Corsano is] the most original drummer playing in New York.” (The Village Voice)

“Saxophonist Paul Flaherty encapsulates the history of outlaw free improvising in New England in every schlup and spit of his horn.” – David Keenan (The Wire, The Scottish Sunday Herald)

About Joe Morris

Joe Morris is one of the rare ones. A player who sets up great challenges for himself, and proceeds to meet them head on with resounding success. He plays the guitar like no one else; for comparative description, it’s actually easier to refer to a horn player like Jimmy Lyons or Eric Dolphy than any other guitarist in the history of the instrument’s existence. To be honest, the fretboard leaps unleashed to actualize the phrasing in his music often times seem superhuman.

For the last 30 years and over the course of well over 30 albums recorded since the early 80’s, Morris has been creating a body of work that stands and walks with giants. It is his first-hand awareness of music’s ability to transform a listener’s mental state outside of the here and now, that has driven him to reach levels of virtuosity and a breadth of expression on guitar which are presently unsurpassed. The silk in the web he weaves is of the absolute finest grade. The web of music itself however, it’s intricacies and continually revealing patterns, prompts true awe.

In early 2001, Morris picked up the acoustic bass and began playing this instrument as well (see second line of first paragraph above). In 2002, he revived his Riti label, and proceeded to issue a stunning series of limited edition albums featuring his most recent group work on both guitar and bass.

“One of the most profound improvisors at work in the U.S.” – Will Montgomery (The Wire)

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