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“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