Can I kick it? Wes you can...
A serene soba and jazz lunch gives way – via some scripture and coffee with very old friends – to an inexplicably previously unexplored join...
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TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS
An Irishman and American walk into a bar...Two obsessed foreigners share the stories behind their pseudo-religious pilgrimage around the unique beauty of Japan's hidden world of jazz bars an...
Episodes
20 of 116 episodesOut for the Count
In this episode we take a trip down a nearly-ten-year memory lane for just two classic joints up north: one just about still open but at ris...
Pour some Suga on me
Day 2, Hirosaki. Philip flies solo in northern climes with three joints, and perhaps one of the greatest of all time.
Held at Needle Point
June 2026. A nineteen day epic journey commences as Philip returns to his adopted homeland and the quest for joints continues. On this episo...
Top Ten Countdown #1: George, James, Philip & Charles
Philip finally renders James speechless, as we reach the end of the 'Tokyo Jazz Joints Top Ten Countdown' and reveal our number ones, united...
Top Ten Countdown #2: Expression...Transition...Ascension.
This week we are in lockstep, as we enter the truest temple of jazz.
Top Ten Countdown #3: A Long Way to Go Out To (Curry) Lunch
Two joints very far away from each other on the map, but very close in passion, dedication and sheer wonder. The countdown continues with ou...
Top Ten Countdown #4: Daytime Drinking
Try turning it off and turn it on again... Two old skool Kyushu and Shikoku joints that just will. not. lie down. secure the Number 4 spot a...
Top Ten Countdown #5: Count Yourself Lucky Ray
Legends duking it out as we keep it in the jazz family with two unparalleled northern joints.
Top Ten Countdown #6: It's Always Sonny in Kyushu
Two saxophone colossi dominate this episode as we hit a couple of epic Kyushu joints.
Top Ten Countdown #7: Walls Come Tumbling Down
More craic than intellectualism as our Top 10 countdown continues north of the wall.
Top Ten Countdown #8: Enter (and Exit) Number 8
Our Top 10 countdown continues in two very different apartment buildings.
Top Ten Countdown #9: The Weird and The Welcoming
We continue our 'Ten Year Tokyo Jazz Joints Top of the Pops Top 10' countdown in style at opposite ends of the country and with the mandator...
Top Ten Countdown #10: Charles in Charge
We begin our 'Ten Year Tokyo Jazz Joints Top of the Pops Top 10' countdown in style with two joints linked by an underdog.
Tokyo Jazz Joints on the Stephen McCauley Show [Radio Ulster]
Philip chats all things jazz kissa with Stephen McAuley in his 'JUJU' pop-up as part of the 2025 'Sound of Belfast' festival. Originally bro...
STILL Standing Men! [Live from Pithecanthropus]
*TW: Intense ASMR-style chewing at the beginning of the episode* A milestone that no one expected to see! Least of all us… We finally reach...
Back in Black
A double tap on the new and improved Incus and the usual chasm of James’s pop culture knowledge, followed by a few old and familiar friends,...
Ryukyu Rhythms
Philip's map-reading skills desert him before an awkward intro at Eagle. We also discuss two incredible Okinawa joints as the project finall...
NOT a tourist attraction
Mostly talk about bananas, with a jazz kissa soundtrack.
Another Bricks in The Wall b/w The Bird Has Flown
In Episode 96, after a subterranean trip to Japan's bubble-economy yeatrs, we survive our very own Squid Game on the way to see an old frien...