Jacob Garchik
@jacobgarchik.bsky.social
Trombone player, Kronos Quartet arranger, Flatbush house person
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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
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
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
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
recent kudos
from George Grella comes this top ten list featuring Ye Olde 2:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
from Norway comes this review:
[www.nettavisen.no/.../noe-godt...](www.nettavisen.no/kjendis/noe-...)
From France comes this poll. Jazz News Magazine, fire your spell checker:
from George Grella comes this top ten list featuring Ye Olde 2:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
from Norway comes this review:
[www.nettavisen.no/.../noe-godt...](www.nettavisen.no/kjendis/noe-...)
From France comes this poll. Jazz News Magazine, fire your spell checker:
December 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
recent kudos
from George Grella comes this top ten list featuring Ye Olde 2:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
from Norway comes this review:
[www.nettavisen.no/.../noe-godt...](www.nettavisen.no/kjendis/noe-...)
From France comes this poll. Jazz News Magazine, fire your spell checker:
from George Grella comes this top ten list featuring Ye Olde 2:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
from Norway comes this review:
[www.nettavisen.no/.../noe-godt...](www.nettavisen.no/kjendis/noe-...)
From France comes this poll. Jazz News Magazine, fire your spell checker:
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...
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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...
ezra klein today, me in 2017
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
ezra klein today, me in 2017
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Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
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I'm at Three's Brewing tonight at 7:30pm with the debut of Alec Goldfarb's processionals! www.instagram.com/alecgoldfarb...
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm at Three's Brewing tonight at 7:30pm with the debut of Alec Goldfarb's processionals! www.instagram.com/alecgoldfarb...
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...
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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...
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I love when real estate articles describe people “falling in love” with, like, a universally desirable and extremely expensive neighborhood
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love when real estate articles describe people “falling in love” with, like, a universally desirable and extremely expensive neighborhood
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" @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-...
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
" @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...
November 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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.
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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.
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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
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
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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
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
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Felix Henkelhausen und seine Deranged Particles überraschen beim Jazzfest Berlin. Sie treffen mit ihrer Dringlichkeit den Zeitgeist. Und Mary Halvorson rockt das Haus.
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.
www.zeit.de
November 4, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Felix Henkelhausen und seine Deranged Particles überraschen beim Jazzfest Berlin. Sie treffen mit ihrer Dringlichkeit den Zeitgeist. Und Mary Halvorson rockt das Haus.
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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...
www.jazz-fun.de/tampere-jazz...
jazz-fun.de Magazin für Jazz Musik
Online Magazin für Jazz Musik
www.jazz-fun.de
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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...
www.jazz-fun.de/tampere-jazz...
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
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?
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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.
The New York Post made this image about rich people fleeing Mamdani and, as someone familiar with both cities, I will say: haha ok
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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.
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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.
November 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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.
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Tampere Jazz Happening continues tonight with concerts by Rob Luft Quartet at 8pm, Daniel Erdmann’s Organic Soulfood at 9.45, and Mary Halvorson Amaryllis Sextet at 11.30 - all performances at Paja Kongressi:
www.tamperejazz.fi/ohjelma/
www.tamperejazz.fi/ohjelma/
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Tampere Jazz Happening continues tonight with concerts by Rob Luft Quartet at 8pm, Daniel Erdmann’s Organic Soulfood at 9.45, and Mary Halvorson Amaryllis Sextet at 11.30 - all performances at Paja Kongressi:
www.tamperejazz.fi/ohjelma/
www.tamperejazz.fi/ohjelma/
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Some group, this. Mary Halvorson Amaryllis Sextet at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, this evening.
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Some group, this. Mary Halvorson Amaryllis Sextet at Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Oslo, this evening.
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This new map based on @theNYHC data makes it clear: it’s too easy to block affordable housing in wide swaths of the city.
If you agree every neighborhood needs to do its part in solving our citywide housing crisis, vote YES on Props 2-5.
If you agree every neighborhood needs to do its part in solving our citywide housing crisis, vote YES on Props 2-5.
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This new map based on @theNYHC data makes it clear: it’s too easy to block affordable housing in wide swaths of the city.
If you agree every neighborhood needs to do its part in solving our citywide housing crisis, vote YES on Props 2-5.
If you agree every neighborhood needs to do its part in solving our citywide housing crisis, vote YES on Props 2-5.
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Getting ready for duo performances at Sala Dei Giganti in Padova! Timer photo by @jacobgarchik.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Getting ready for duo performances at Sala Dei Giganti in Padova! Timer photo by @jacobgarchik.bsky.social
I’m in Padua Italy In a 4 story hotel. Elevator for one or possibly two people, no doors, hold down the button until it reaches your floor, slightly slower than the stairs. @stephenjacobsmith.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’m in Padua Italy In a 4 story hotel. Elevator for one or possibly two people, no doors, hold down the button until it reaches your floor, slightly slower than the stairs. @stephenjacobsmith.com
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““Tom, tell that gringo he’s a moron,” an exasperated Gilberto said at one point in Portuguese to Jobim, who then translated for Getz: “Stan, Joao said to tell you that he’s always dreamed of making a record with you.” Despite the growing acrimony in the studio, the results were impeccable.”
Stan Getz / João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto
Read Andy Beta’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
““Tom, tell that gringo he’s a moron,” an exasperated Gilberto said at one point in Portuguese to Jobim, who then translated for Getz: “Stan, Joao said to tell you that he’s always dreamed of making a record with you.” Despite the growing acrimony in the studio, the results were impeccable.”