Sound Menu April 22 2000 Wed week out

COREY COKES - This Boston-based spoken word poet named his CD Coreyography, which implies a level of self-indulgence that tends to make less pretentious types cringe and wonder why they’d care to know about Corey’s “ography?” But while he doesn’t exactly rise above his genre, Cokes is more entertaining, musical and universal than most. Yin Yang Café (Sarig)

VINYL, ROBERT WALTER’S 20TH CONGRESS - With a tight horn line, tons of percussion and standout players on bass and keyboards, Vinyl has made a name for themselves in their native Bay Area as a hot ticket, drawing comparisons to Santana and War. The music is all instrumental and played with a measure of discipline and skill that’s rare for a band tagged as a jam band. Bringing a similar aesthetic from the other end of California is the San Diego quartet led by jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter, groovemeister on the Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, clavinet and other vintage gear. Smith’s Olde Bar (Trammell/Sarig)

X-IMPOSSIBLES, TOM COLLINS, THE EVILS - The hard-rocking X-Impossibles finish up their Wednesday-nights-in-April residency with a bill that includes former residents, the guitar heroic Tom Collins and new kids in town, the Evils. Star Bar (Sarig)