TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS
TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS
Philip Arneill & James Catchpole
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 and coffee houses, documented on www.tokyojazzjoints.com and in the Tokyo Jazz Joints photobook published in 2023.
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.
Apr 5
37 min
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.
Mar 29
34 min
Top Ten Countdown #7: Walls Come Tumbling Down
More craic than intellectualism as our Top 10 countdown continues north of the wall.
Mar 22
26 min
Top Ten Countdown #8: Enter (and Exit) Number 8
Our Top 10 countdown continues in two very different apartment buildings.
Mar 15
33 min
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 mandatory mention of the magically replenishing horse oil.
Mar 8
24 min
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.
Mar 1
27 min
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 broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster on November 21st 2025.
Feb 27
59 min
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 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).
Dec 31, 2025
27 min
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, as our May 2025 adventures come to an end.
Dec 24, 2025
45 min
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 finally expands to the fifth of Japan's major islands.
Dec 20, 2025
47 min
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