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6 best jazz bars in Tokyo

Tokyo is a great city for live music and jazz holds a special place. In fact, Japan has had a long love affair with jazz – nearly as long as the genre’s existed, with the first jazz scenes emerging in ...
Hypebeast

'Tokyo Jazz Joints' Spotlights Japanese Jazz Kissa Culture

“Japanese-influenced listening bars” may be the latest, greatest trend in US bar culture, but their high-end sound systems and even more highfalutin aesthetic draw from a much more humble practice: ...
Kathy Haan on MSN

Tokyo’s Midnight Jazz Kissaten: After-Hours Coffee Bars Where Time Slows

After-Hours Coffee Bars Where Time Slows appeared first on Author Kathy Haan. This post written by Kathy Haan . Go to Author ...
Jazz

Tokyo Jazz Joints

Japan's love affair with jazz is an old one. A unique one. It is home to hundreds of jazz-listening bars and cafés, places where chatting is at best frowned upon, and even forbidden between certain ...
Hypebeast

'Tokyo Jazz Joints' Announces Its Eigkan Jazz Kissa Project

Through their Tokyo Jazz Joints podcast and book, Philip Arneill and James Catchpole aim to spotlight, honor and preserve Japan’s storied jazz kissa culture. Now, Catchpole is undertaking his most ...
ジャパンタイムズ

Memories, melancholy and all that jazz

When James Catchpole and I meet in Jazz Eagle, a basement cafe in central Tokyo's Yotsuya neighborhood, our conversation is squashed within seconds. As a New Yorker and a Northern Irishman, perhaps we ...
Jazz

Foreign Jazz Musicians Find Niche in Tokyo's Underground Scene

TOKYO -- Dave Brubeck, Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley -- just a few of the jazz legends who have been inspired by their experiences in Japan. If there's any doubt about the country's influence, ...
BBC

Tokyo’s jazz kissa survive

The city’s jazz cafes, where locals sit for hours listening to record collections that can numbers in the thousands, are finding new life through a younger generation. Tokyo’s Kissa Seikatsu cafe may ...
ecoustics

Time Traveling at Tokyo Jazz Kissa: Exit to Vintage Street

This month Eric Pye toured 6 Jazz Kissas across Tokyo, Japan. Find out what they’re all about. When I visit Japan I have two main goals, besides visiting with friends and family. I lived here for over ...
ジャパンタイムズ

Tokyo Jazz Festival grabs Ornette Coleman for headlining spot

Note: A week after the publication of this article, Tokyo Jazz Festival organizers announced Ornette Coleman will not come to Japan due to poor health. Jazz fans in Tokyo are already a lucky bunch, ...
Time Out

6 best jazz bars in Tokyo

Tokyo is a great city for live music and jazz holds a special place. In fact, Japan has had a long love affair with jazz – nearly as long as the genre’s existed, with the first jazz scenes emerging in ...