Jacob Garchik

good way to use up your loose change! especially if you don't care about discounts or weekly maximums.

mta sbs coin machine

sorry was referring to this puppy

yes...but he was saying people would use it as an excuse to dodge enforcement and say "I forgot my receipt"..regardless they are phasing out change. (there are still physical change machines for SBS receipts! are they gonna ditch those too?)

janno mentioned it in an interview…they have to phase out change next year before they can do pop.

iirc normal buses are still going to allow people to pay with change. Which means you can’t do POP because there’s no receipt.

The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2025

The future of jazz lies in places where it's less insular and more artistically adventurous. These records are outstanding examples of that impulse.

READ: tinyurl.com/BestJazz25

poll from french jazz magazine for "top 3 foreign trombone players" with results Samuel Blaser, Fred Wesley and Jacob Garhik (sic)

recent kudos
from George Grella comes this top ten list featuring Ye Olde 2:
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from Norway comes this review:
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From France comes this poll. Jazz News Magazine, fire your spell checker:

LPC Executive Director Lisa Kersavage addressed concerns raised in testimony about the designation limiting housing options, saying the districts sit in zoning areas that allow for accessory dwelling units. While detached new-construction backyard ADUs are not allowed in historic districts, interior conversions and ADUs in existing garages are permitted with LPC approval.

Just think of all the new units this might add to the neighborhood, one of the least dense in the borough! One or two, possibly, with LPC approval!

Ditmas Park NIMBYs successfully landmark blocks that could have supported Transit Oriented Development under City of Yes. LPC says let them eat cake (build ADUs in little existing garages). www.brownstoner.com/architecture...

child care is big though

One problem the modular housing industry has faced is the absence of steady demand to keep the factories running and work out the kinks of construction. A place like New York City that wanted to build public housing at scale, over a long period of time, could create that steady demand and use it to seed an industry — New York could become America’s leader in modular construction.

I also think city could have a design contest for a modular, stackable unit, built in the Navy Yard or Sunset Park or S Bronx, then shipped all over the city. De Blasio house.

ezra klein today, me in 2017

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

Caught some of the show in Groningen. Beautiful playing!

Oh God no.

I'm at Three's Brewing tonight at 7:30pm with the debut of Alec Goldfarb's processionals! www.instagram.com/alecgoldfarb...

As someone with cats and bugs, what do tilt and turns do about screens? screens on the inside? My cats would ruin that in a day.

For Roswell Rudd's 90th birthday, a letter he wrote me 20 years ago, and a repost of my 2018 essay about him. jacobgarchik.substack.com/p/letter-fro...

yeah bring it back to what it used to be associated with www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxn...

Every Broadway theater has a union minimum for musicians, from 26 at the Majestic down to 3 at the Walter Kerr and the Cort. In the past, a show scored for fewer than that number has had to hire "walkers": so called because they walk in only to pick up their checks.

ever heard of a "walker"? www.nytimes.com/1995/02/08/t...

I love when real estate articles describe people “falling in love” with, like, a universally desirable and extremely expensive neighborhood

" @maryhalvorson.bsky.social released what will soon officially be one of the most acclaimed jazz albums of 2025." — @natechinen.bsky.social in The Gig, on Halvorson, her sextet Amaryllis, and their latest album, 'About Ghosts' substack.com/home/post/p-...

I posted part 5 of my guide to Double Tonguing, where I talk about improvising with Coltrane-like Isorhythms to practice repetitive tonguing patterns. jacobgarchik.substack.com/p/double-ton...

Current Listening: Andriessen: Mausoleum (I love this piece but it's quasi out of print?!?!); Andriessen: Trilogy of the Last Day; Tomas Fujiwara: Dream Up; Stravinsky: Violin Concerto; The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra; Jacob Garchik: Clear Line. sometimes I listen to my own. Good to take stock.

Mary Halvorson sextet! #BIMhuis
Geweldig concert weer van een van de absolute topbands in de jazz op dit moment.

Mary Halvorson gitaar, Jonathan Finlayson trompet, Jacob Garchik trombone, Patricia Brennan vibrafoon, Nick Dunston bas, Tomas Fujiwara drums
Special guest Ketija Ringa Karahona fluit

Jazzfest Berlin: Es ist eine Schlammwalze, ein urbaner Dschungelsound Felix Henkelhausen und seine Deranged Particles überraschen beim Jazzfest Berlin. Sie treffen mit ihrer Dringlichkeit den Zeitgeist. Und Mary Halvorson rockt das Haus.

Felix Henkelhausen und seine Deranged Particles überraschen beim Jazzfest Berlin. Sie treffen mit ihrer Dringlichkeit den Zeitgeist. Und Mary Halvorson rockt das Haus.

jazz-fun.de Magazin für Jazz Musik Online Magazin für Jazz Musik

Beim 44. Tampere Jazz Happening in Finnland zeigte sich die europäische Jazzszene in Höchstform – mit Mary Halvorson, Émile Parisien, Daniel Erdmann, Hamid Drake und vielen neuen Entdeckungen. Ein Bericht von Christoph Giese.
www.jazz-fun.de/tampere-jazz...

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.

It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Trucks delivering to businesses in a pedestrian mall in the morning in ulm Germany.

Ulm pedestrian mall.

I’m in ulm Germany which, no suprise, has a pedestrian mall surrounding the enormous church and the shopping district. And look, business owners, early morning truck deliveries, it’s not rocket science. Can you imagine if we had this in SoHo, the rest of Times Square, or 8th Ave in sunset park?

Rich people live in NY for access to art and culture, concerts, restaurants, galleries, boutiques, art studios, and tiny music venues. All powered by an enormous ecosystem full of the people, living on economic margins, that they and Cuomo don’t want to help.

Patricia Brennan Septet and Mary Halvorson Sextet! What a lineup at Berlin Jazz Fest tonight! I've been dying to see Brennan's band and it did not disappoint.