Episode 25: Sometimes less is more, and this is one of these times. This week we finally make it to our destination in this final instalment of a series of 3.  Basie, the jazz joint to end all joints, speaks for itself.

This episode also includes a fictionalised version of our visit to Basie.

Story written by Philip Arneill. 
Soundscape by Brian of Grooves Ahead (groovesahead.com). 

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Thanks as always to Brian of groovesahead.com for audio assistance and Louie Lastic for our theme music.

Additional music credits under Creative Commons licence.

Sound Effects: 
(freesound.org)scottyhigh20, cantikfrantik, sinatra314, bplayers, soapuel, khenshom, joanzz, vital-sounds, shcluppipuppie, timjpower, macdaddyno1, soniaespi

Music: 
(jamendo.com)
AFTER WORK - Mack The Knife, Hugo "Droopy" Contini - Dexterity, Gray Mic Records - Swing With Me, Christian Petermann - Jazz Rendezvous

Basie.

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.