We ring in the new year with some new kids on the Tokyo jazz kissa block, and a fair bit of coughing.

Thanks as ever to Brian for audio assistance.

Sitting Men, Live from Standing Man

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.