Cornelia Street Cafe Welcomes Back Paul Shapiro's Ribs & Brisket Revue for New Year's Eve

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Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street between West 4th & Bleeker, welcomes back Paul Shapiro’s "Ribs & Brisket Revue," an uplifting, funky-historical Harlemite Yiddish Swing Band, for the sixth year in a row, for New Year’s Eve. They are delighted to be back at Cornelia Street for the annual New Year's Fete. It does tend to sell out, so reservations are strongly suggested. There are two options, the 10pm show and  aglass of Nicolas Feuillatte Vintage Brut Champagne at Midnight, for $55, or a lovely multi-course meal upstairs, followed by the 10pm show and Champagne at Midnight, for $100.

As a member of the Microscopic Septet in the 1980's and early 1990's, Shapiro was part of a small but vibrant community of jazz musicians who refused to submit to the narrow, neoconservative ethos of the day, and chose instead, to celebrate the entire tradition, from early swing to the avant-garde. You can hear that joyous open-mindedness in all of Shapiro's subsequent work, including his two previous albums for John Zorn's Tzadik label, Midnight Minyan and It's in the Twilight, which subjects traditional synagogue melodies to a variety of treatments, from rhythm and blues to model jazz. Shapiro's growing interest in Jewish music eventually led him to a pocket of repertoire from the 1930's and 1940's, that occupies a fascinating middle ground between big band swing, Yiddish pop and early R&B. For the past several years, he has been presenting these finds, many of which take food as their theme, at Cornelia Street, as part of his "Ribs and Brisket Revue."