Come wish our proprietor a happy birthday!

Acclaimed drummer (and One Flight Up owner) Joe Strasser moved to New York City in 1990 to attend the famed jazz program at the New School. He's since played with a "who's who" of jazz, including George Coleman, Harold Mabern, Etta Jones, Cecil Payne, Jane Monheit, Hillary Kole, Peter Bernstein, and countless others. Joe also co-led the Hotpants, a funk band he founded with Roots/Jimmy Fallon saxophonist Ian Hendrickson-Smith.