jim macnie

@mehpatrol thx for your work, CG.

Thank you for reading, listening and watching. I'm grateful to the NYT, my colleagues on Culture and beyond and my freelancers. I am ready for a long-awaited solo era; please find me at carynganz dot com, on IG at caryn.ganz and here

After 11 years, thousands of articles, 11 Taylor Swift album releases, one of the biggest trials in music history and more traumatizing deaths than one pop music editor could fathom, I have decided to leave The New York Times.

lamentforastraightline.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/mus… big weekend of music in NYC

@Roulette_NYC is the #jazz home of the #longplayfestival tonight and this @jasonsmoran @drummerslams @BlankForms celebrate the new album shorturl.at/XQCub

your guide to NYC #jazz this week lamentforastraightline.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/mus… @caroenildavis @torndavid

This yellow ball holds lots of music. Let’s bounce it together at 6 pm ET on wriu.org. It’s time for far flung folk.

where will you go this weekend? what will you do? photo: Russ Rowland shorturl.at/v40ma

@JonIrabagon at the Stone, @MaraRosenbloom at @TheJazzGallery, Jim Campilongo and his #guitar are back in town... Lots to do in #jazz ville this week #NYCjazz shorturl.at/om6oF

Musings on Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation” at the @DAddarioWW Factory in Long Island last summer…Full video on Youtube… #MiguelZenon #daddario #charlieparker #confirmation

lots of #jazz to absorb this week. don't slip on the sidewalk. shorturl.at/u7Dp9 @smokejazzclub @birdlandjazz @NYCcloseup

help me fling a little folk around the place. WRIU.org at 6 pm TONIGHT. Armen Ra, Pino Donaggio, Sir Richard Bishop, Jesse Winchester, Úlla, Rosalia, Eduardo Mateo, Evan Ziporyn, Flatt & Scruggs, etc. shorturl.at/sSaW0

Lots and lots and lots and lots of choices at the @NYCWJF this weekend. hope this guides you a little bit. #NYCWJF lamentforastraightline.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/mus…

lots to do this week. have you heard @Joshua_Redman dance through "She Knows"? his 4tet takes over @smokejazzclub through the weekend. lamentforastraightline.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/mus…

Lots of jazz options in NYC this week. Lots. shorturl.at/KLJOu

go out and see some jazz this weekend ya damn fools...tinyurl.com/msfy7jkm

@AmirElSaffar brings the luminous music of his New Quartet to @Roulette_NYC TONIGHT. Go! (not in NYC? watch the #Livestream on the Roulette site. shorturl.at/iEI1x

new yorkers can see @Pfvibes at @roulette_nyc tonight at the release party for 'Of The Near and Far' - here's more info on the show and music. non-NY'ers can watch it on the Roulette page. shorturl.at/cHp92

Oscar and the Crookeds kicked azz recording at SEEDS last week. Now they're back at their Friday haunt, Barbès. Team Noriega takes the stage in 30 minutes.

Far Flung Folk on the radio starting at 6 pm ET facebook.com/jim.macnie/pos…

jazz in nyc this thanksgiving week? yes, of course, please. shorturl.at/sMdcv @smokejazzclub for starters

NYC is jazz city. weekend options: shorturl.at/M5QR6