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Jacob Garchik

acob Garchik, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger, was born in San Francisco and has lived in New York since 1994. At home in a wide variety of styles and musical roles, he has become a vital part of NYC’s downtown and Brooklyn scene, playing trombone with the Lee Konitz Nonet, Ohad Talmor/Steve Swallow Sextet, The Four Bags, Slavic Soul Party, and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. In 2012 he released the acclaimed solo CD “The Heavens: the Atheist Gospel Trombone Album”. Since 2006 Jacob has contributed dozens of arrangements and transcriptions for the Kronos Quartet of music from all over the world

Gargantua

By Simon Hanes

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: A Series of Waves Tremble in a Sea of Blood; Gigantes; Knockandrow; Lacerated by a Flying Shard; The Number of the Beast Is 666; Submit to the Fabulosity; Moirai; Lucifer / Aurem Chaos; I Am; Hekla 1970.

The Number of the Beast is 666

August 5, 2026

Album: Gargantua
By Simon Hanes
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 3:34

Final Four

by Patrick Burnette
March 5, 2026

It's too early for March Madness, but just in time for the bastards to wrap up their survey of the New York Times' Top Ten list of 2025 jazz albums. Some of the choices give the boys mixed emotions and some barely any emotions at all, but at the end of this journey we can all ...

Mary Halvorson: About the Ghosts in the Guitar

by Dean Nardi
January 5, 2026

No, guitarheads, recently Mary Halvorson has been inspired to put out records with her Amaryllis sextet more so than some jaggedy, lyrical shredding, but these are pretty darn good jazz records from a tight ensemble consisting of Adam O'Farrill (trumpet), Jacob Garchik (trombone), Patricia Brennan (vibraphone) and a rhythm section of Nick Dunston (bass) and Tomas ...

About Ghosts

By Mary Halvorson

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Full of Neon; Carved From; Eventidal; Absinthian; About Ghosts; Amaranthine; Polyhedral; Endmost.

Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time

By Jacob Garchik

Label: Yestereve Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: One Can Only Go Up; Transcending Time; Caro Ortolano; Exo Microbiology; Dyson Spheres; Von Neumann Probes; Omega Point; Ye Olde vs Simulacrus; Floating Brain.

I Dischi del 2025 secondo Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè
December 29, 2025

Anche quest'anno la scena statunitense del jazz più avanzato si è rivelata particolarmente ricca e competitiva. In questa liste di fine anno, però, ho voluto dare spazio anche ad alcuni dischi emblematici del panorama europeo, da sempre vitale e autentico, segnalando in particolare un protagonista storico come Barry Guy, anche perché nel corso del 2025 ho ...

Libero Farnè's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

by Libero Farnè
December 27, 2025

Once again this year, the most forward-looking strand of the U.S. jazz scene has proven to be especially rich and compelling. In my list, however, I have tried to make room for a number of emblematic releases from the European scene, which remains consistently vital and authentic. In this spirit, I chose to highlight a historic ...

Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

by Troy Dostert
December 10, 2025

We were treated to another superb year of creative jazz and improvised music in 2025, with a broad range of projects seeking to extend the boundaries of jazz into and beyond other idioms. Chamber-adjacent outfits such as the Hemphill Stringtet and Patricia Brennan's latest ensemble blurred the border between jazz and contemporary classical music, while Miguel ...