Tonight I'm playing at Silvana in Harlem with Touque! Two sets of mostly original groove-based jazz. Free show from 9 to 11.

I'm on my way home from visiting a friend on Long Island, and I bumped into NYC radio and transit legend Bernie Wagenblast on the train! She was coming home from the Mets pride night. We worked together at a radio event a few years ago. Look for Bernie as the grand marshall of this year's NYC […]

Statue of Liberty 📷 https://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/statueofliberty/?cam=liberty_str #nyc #newyorkcity #webcam

At 11am my polling place had more poll workers (8, plus one cop) than voters (2). #ny12

I am really digging this new album from London jazz group Your Brother's Keeper with special guest Gary Bartz on alto sax. https://yourbrotherskeepergarybartz.bandcamp.com/album/where-rivers-meet

Join me late tonight / early tomorrow for a jazzy journey into insomnia, with a memorial segment for Abdullah Ibrahim and birthday shout outs to Eric Dolphy and Sugarcane Harris. What else awaits? You'll have to tune in to find out! Freeform Jazz Dance, 3 to 6am only on WFMU! […]

Tonight I'm playing in the house band for a night of classic funk and soul songs at Baker Falls. It's part of the long-running F*Bomb series of tribute shows here in NYC. F*Bomb presents SOUL BOMB, tonight at 9pm! (I'm also playing the opening set with […] [Original post on heads.social]

Soho and the West Village are overrun with swarms of drunk and happy Knicks fans. I'm sure it will be much the same on the east side when I head home from work later.

My college radio station WHRW in Binghamton, NY turned 60 years old in February and we'll be celebrating the anniversary in the fall. I can't begin to imagine how different my life would be if I never found that place. Here's an article about the anniversary from our alumni magazine […]

I could not have imagined a more epic night to start my new overnight show on WFMU. If you missed it live, get caught up here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/165311

RE: https://heads.social/@jasonisaacdrums/116743534627534672 The entire region has erupted in celebration as I make my way to Jersey City for my first show on the WFMU summer schedule! I will not let you down, dear listeners!

I will leave it to more informed fans to comment on the quality of the basketball. But as far as days in the life of New York City go, this is an all-timer! #knicks #nyc

The energy in NYC is off the charts today! The city is obviously buzzing with excitment in anticipation of my return to the weekly airwaves after a wait of 20+ years. Freeform Jazz Dance debuts in its new slot late tonight at 3am, only on @WFMU! #wfmu

Reminder: the Crescent City Connection show is on summer vacation so I won't be with you on the Rock'n'Soul stream this morning. Instead I'll be joining WFMU's summer schedule late tonight with a very different kind of show ...

I'll be playing at Paddy Reilly's at the corner of 29th St. and 2nd Ave. in Manhattan tonight with Dark Streets. Two big sets of Pogues songs and more starting at 7:30. It's our last show till September so come out and rock with us while the rockin' is good!

I think all drummers knew Anika Niles was going to be great with Rush, but somehow she still wildly exceeded expectations. I watched some songs from the first show of the tour and she absolutely crushed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsAgGYM8_-A

I was supposed to have a rehearsal at a studio on W. 30th Street tonight, but you-know-who has to show up to get booed at the Knicks game, so we're shout out of that place. Thankfully we found another spot in a less central location. But still, what a pain in the ass. #nyc

Instructions disregarded. #drums

Tonight I will be playing with American Bob and the Greatest Hits at the Irish Whiskey Bar in Astoria, Queens. Free show with two big sets of hard rock originals. Maximum rock and roll!!!

RE: https://heads.social/@jasonisaacdrums/116695554665859772 The Crescent City Connection season finale is under way! Join me on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul stream to get down with the NOLA sound one last time before summer break! https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164842

@birb https://cubaonrecord.substack.com/

The final (for now) episode of the Crescent City Connection is in the can and is ready to roll on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul stream on Saturday morning. And it's a good one! It will be a fitting send off. ICYMI, I'm joining WFMU's summer broadcast schedule with a weekly three-hour overnight show […]

Via r/jazz: someone made a couple of sets of jazz musician trading cards in the style of old Topps baseball cards. One set from 1956, the other from 1971. I am very tempted to buy these. https://www.shopwaxpacks.com/products #jazz #baseballcards

#recommNeds 2026.76 Gitkin: Where the South Winds Wail Guitarist Brian J, performing as Gitkin, has doing the world groove guitar thing for almost 10 years now, before it was quite widespread. He's still at it with a wide-ranging collection, almost as if […] [Original post on shakedown.social]

I'm a native New Yorker, and I know that the Knicks winning is a great thing for New York. But I hate the idea of rooting for anything that would bring happiness to James Dolan.

Also anyone with any actual experience managing a newsroom knows that if you have real reporters in your bullpen they will confront you with real questions about your intentions. If you can’t handle it, you have no business managing a newsroom.

Seen on the E train this morning. #fuckai

Today is a banner day in my marriage. @flybrain and I managed to put together a piece of furniture without yelling at each other even once!

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@by_tor/116665877508637141 I second that emotion

Tonight I'm playing some weird jazz with Touque! Free show at 7pm at Silvana in Harlem. With David Aaron (sax), Nick Balaban (keys), Spencer Katzman (guitar) and Kai Eric (bass). It is very tough to get this group together so I'm really looking forward to this.

RE: https://social.lol/@thetonearm/116658106394376588 I have known Lisa Schonberg since college when we played in orchestra and percussion ensemble together. She is a great musician who is always creating something unique and interesting. Check out her amazing enviro-musical project and then go […]

Tune in this morning for the penultimate episode of the Crescent City Connection before the show takes a break and I move over to an overnight slot on the radio for the summer. Join me at 10am eastern for a great hour of New Orleans rock and roll and more on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Radio stream! […]

I'm doing a last minute fill-in show late tonight on WFMU. Think of it as a soft launch of my upcoming overnight show for the summer schedule. I'm not sure exactly what's in store, but I do have a couple of unreleased Sonny Rollins tapes from my secret stash to get things started ... Midnight to […]

I am pleased to announce that I'm going back to my overnight radio roots this summer as I join WFMU's summer broadcasting schedule for the first time! Freeform Jazz Dance will be coming at you Saturday night / Sunday morning from 3 to 6am starting the weekend of June 13th. wfmu.org/playlists/f4 […]

I'm playing with Stephanie Marie and the Double Knit Players tonight at the 11th Street Bar in the East Village. A tight set of country rock originals at 8pm, followed by The Ramblin' Kind at 9pm. Free show! Support live local music!

RIP Sonny Rollins - The colossus has gone. https://youtu.be/TGcsIaErFFw?si=RN8lfX-jEXgqWEdD

safe travels to sonny rollins from the williamsburg bridge (which really should be renamed after him). #nyc #jazz

So it turns out the secret ingredient for our superior NYC pizza and bagels all along was ... cancer? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/proposed-additive-ban-change-new-yorks-pizza-bagels-say-better-rcna346472

Hey jazz heads, check out the Swedish band La La Lars on Bandcamp. I found them through a post on reddit this afternoon and I'm already three albums deep into their catalog. It's some of my favorite jazz I've heard in a while. https://lalalars.bandcamp.com/music

The Crescent City Connection is rollin' on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul stream! Join me from now till 11am eastern (or later in the archives) for some great tunes from New Orleans. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164510

It's party time on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul stream - the Crescent City Connection is rockin' the house from now till 11am. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164272

RE: https://heads.social/@jasonisaacdrums/116578957856258955 We were kind of on fire tonight. Such a fun band to play with.

Tonight I'm rolling up to the Bronx with Time Machine Appetizer. It's our monthly hit at An Beal Bocht Cafe, with two sets of instrumental groove music (soul jazz, surf rock, blues and funk) from 8 to 10pm. With Merritt Jacob on guitar, Dave Archer on keyboards […] [Original post on heads.social]

Tonight I will be back on the drums with Dark Streets. Two big sets of Pogues and more at Paddy Reilly's Music Bar in Manhattan. 7pm, free show!

Has another Robert Johnson photo been found? Maybe ... Part 1: https://bradtolinski.substack.com/p/is-this-the-most-important-unseen Part 2: https://bradtolinski.substack.com/p/a-lost-robert-johnson-photo-the-mystery Part 3: https://bradtolinski.substack.com/p/could-this-really-be-robert-johnson

@birb https://bradmehldau.substack.com/

I will be taking the controls of the WFMU mothership once again tonight to fill in for Blurred and Obscured. It will not be a Mother's Day show, but every song will be a real mother, if you know what I mean. 10pm till midnight on the radio at 91.1 (Jersey and NYC) / 91.9 (Rockland County) / 90.1 […]

I was lazy about posting this, but The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis were pretty awesome at Le Poisson Rouge the other night. The band is Fugazi's rhythm section with two rampaging virtuosos on guitar and saxophone. I cannot get enough of their sound and […] [Original post on heads.social]

Coming up at 10am, another hour of NOLA (and NOLA-adjacent) music on the Crescent City Connection show from WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Radio! https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164056

The New York jazz scene has such an abundance of riches that apparently a free show by Chris Potter at City College flew completely under the radar. He was featured guest at the CUNY Jazz Festival, which also featured some student bands in recital. Potter had a […] [Original post on heads.social]