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WBGO
“One Flight Up: A New Jazz Club Rises in Lower Manhattan”
The Art of the Story, with Leo Sidran · July 20, 2026
WBGO's Leo Sidran visited One Flight Up as part of a look at the wave of new jazz clubs opening across New York. The piece traces how Joe Strasser and Mark Quinn's friendship, formed decades ago in the same Greenwich Village rooms they now emulate, turned into a shared club. Sidran also spoke with the club's manager and a visiting bandleader about what the room feels like from the stage and behind the bar.
"It is daunting in many ways but I felt like we make a good team." — Joe Strasser
JazzTimes
“In and Around New York, Jazz Clubs Come Out of the Sky"
JazzTimes, by Morgan Enos · June 25, 2026
A deep dive into the wave of new jazz rooms opening across the New York area, from Spike Wilner's Jazzcultural to The Pocket, Jazz on Main in Westchester, and The Statuary in Jersey City. One Flight Up gets a substantial feature within the piece: Joe Strasser talks about designing the room around a 1928 Steinway B piano, how a strong soft-opening sound convinced him to bring horns into what he'd planned as a duo-and-trio room, and his choice not to charge musicians a cover, since the club is meant to be a hang as much as a listening room.
"My aesthetic is mostly Blue Note-era jazz." — Joe Strasser