TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS

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• Top Ten Countdown #1: George, James, Philip & Charles 03.05.2026 46min

  Philip finally renders James speechless, as we reach the end of the 'Tokyo Jazz Joints Top Ten Countdown' and reveal our number ones, united in passion but not necessarily in choice. What a rollercoaster! Clip from Paul Hardcastle's 'The Wizard' (1986). No copyright infringement intended.
• Top Ten Countdown #2: Expression...Transition...Ascension. 26.04.2026 34min

  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 19.04.2026 38min

  Two joints very far away from each other on the map, but very close in passion, dedication and sheer wonder. The countdown continues with our Number 3 picks!
• Top Ten Countdown #4: Daytime Drinking 12.04.2026 35min

  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 as our countdown continues!
• Top Ten Countdown #5: Count Yourself Lucky Ray 05.04.2026 37min

  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 29.03.2026 34min

  Two saxophone colossi dominate this episode as we hit a couple of epic Kyushu joints.
• Top Ten Countdown #7: Walls Come Tumbling Down 22.03.2026 26min

  More craic than intellectualism as our Top 10 countdown continues north of the wall.
• Top Ten Countdown #8: Enter (and Exit) Number 8 15.03.2026 33min

  Our Top 10 countdown continues in two very different apartment buildings.
• Top Ten Countdown #9: The Weird and The Welcoming 08.03.2026 24min

  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 mandatory mention of the magically replenishing horse oil.
• Top Ten Countdown #10: Charles in Charge 01.03.2026 27min

  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] 27.02.2026 59min

  Philip chats all things jazz kissa with Stephen McAuley in his 'JUJU' pop-up as part of the 2025 'Sound of Belfast' festival. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster on November 21st 2025.
• STILL Standing Men! [Live from Pithecanthropus] 31.12.2025 27min

  *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 the 100th episode of the podcast, and where else to mark the occasion than the project’s spiritual home, Kamata’s inimitable Chokuritsu Enjin (Pithecanthropus Erectus).
• Back in Black 24.12.2025 45min

  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, as our May 2025 adventures come to an end.
• Ryukyu Rhythms 20.12.2025 47min

  Philip's map-reading skills desert him before an awkward intro at Eagle. We also discuss two incredible Okinawa joints as the project finally expands to the fifth of Japan's major islands.
• NOT a tourist attraction 07.12.2025 1t 3min

  Mostly talk about bananas, with a jazz kissa soundtrack.
• Another Bricks in The Wall b/w The Bird Has Flown 23.11.2025 44min

  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 friend – and all the mixed emotions that stirs up.
• One mug, and adult hot chocolate in a cup (not mug) 08.11.2025 45min

  Good stories told badly as we take bickering to the level of an Olympic sport, and get deep into the true nature of crockery with the truly ying and yang of Kyoto jazz joints.
• Third Egg of the Day Drives Coltrane Away 25.10.2025 56min

  We are California dreamin’ on this episode until Philip’s ideal world is shattered by some devastating breaking news. Was it merely a mirage?
• Double-Edged Coin 12.10.2025 49min

  James continues to offend people with mixed metaphors and cultural pitfalls before we end up whiling the evening away in an absolute gem of a spot to cap a long first day back in Osaka.
• Blueberry Submuffins 28.09.2025 49min

  Reunited in Kansai we hit the trail with a shaky start for nearly not quite three joints, well sort of three...