Sat outside a 24 hour karaoke hall in the wilds of Saitama, being stared at by curious locals, waiting for it open felt like being stuck in a scene from a Japanese ‘Twin Peaks’. The Shinjuku Kissa Seikatsu is one of Tokyo’s many jazz kissa W... All Graduates | French Translation Service: Going to Japan is a great experience, and sharing ... Isabelle: The site is interesting and can founf information ... เซซามิน: I enjoy reading through an article that can make m... Jd Banks: Being a foreigner in Japan is no joke! thanks to an aging population and the accessibility of digital music, there has James Catchpole, editor of the Tokyo Jazz Site, a guide to specialist cafes and By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions. Photography: Philip Arneill / Captions: Philip Arneill & James Catchpole. and a series of influential live performances Bill Evans, Chick Corea and many of their contemporaries visited Eonta on evenings after local gigs in the 70s and 80s, organised and promoted by its stoic owner and his wife. We do this with social media, marketing, and analytics partners (who may have their own information they’ve collected). Unlike some bigger-name jazz clubs around the world, Pit Inn maintains a focus on the music. To date we have visited 150+ jazz joints, and have been profiled in publications such as Wax Poetics and Vinyl Factory. performers every day. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Address: 6-13-9 Minami Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, 107-0062 Having recovered from the shock that we were not just passing by but had driven for an hour specifically to visit Powell, Mr. Kaminishi, the hospitable and chatty owner, was delighted to talk and talk about the history of jazz in Japan. It also featured on the TV program “Jazz in the City:Tokyo” produced by and broadcast on Dutch national broadcaster NPS, in Singaporean TV program “Asia By Taxi”, in the French TV program Jazzed Out and on Coy Wire’s CNN program ‘True Tokyo’. Mrs. Hayashi runs her bar on the ground floor of her house in a suburban street not far from a forgotten station off the the main Tokyo-China rail line. Tokyo’s Top Jazz Spots for Tourists. Jazz joint profiles, musician interviews, album picks, the OK Jazz Podcast (all genres!) Tokyo Jazz Joints Collaborative Japanese jazz documentary photography project by Philip Arneill & James Catchpole, begun in Tokyo in March 2015. Phone number: 03-3479-2037 If you have any corrections or suggestions, please send them to us at directory@jazzonthetube.com. clubs around the city. collection matches the idiosyncratic decor. It encompasses a record label, pressing plant and online magazine, and collaborates with artists and musicians to create stunning audio-visual shows. To see more of the Tokyo Jazz Joints project, visit tokyojazzjoints.com and follow @tokyojazzjoints on Twitter and Instagram. remaining [cafes] cater largely to customers who enjoyed these listening rooms generation. Phone number: 03-5466-3348 12,000+ records in cabinets from floor to ceiling. Paper Moon is an absolute treasure, a remnant of the time when there were dozens of jazz bars surrounding every major train station in Tokyo, instead of just four or five. Sanctuaries for jazz enthusiasts where the music is played on vinyl through aging sound systems, these bars or kissaten are slowly disappearing. Slowly, the cafes began to disappear as economic development continued, and listening to music at home became the norm. Address: 5F Hama-Roppongi Bldg 5F, Roppongi 6-2-35, Minato-Ku, 106-0030 Saying no will not stop you from seeing our ads, but it may make them less relevant or more repetitive. The Tokyo Jazz Festival is the largest jazz event in Japan. Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia stood next to stacks of decades-old US records, Nightly live music by both local and visiting groups, and often a hang out for touring jazz musicians after their gigs finish elsewhere. http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicHall/3707/jbs.html. Classic Japanese jazz cafe. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! and events listings for cool stuff all around the Tokyo Metro Area - personalize content, search, recommendations, and offers and record parties, where people bring their own vinyl collection and discuss the city’s jazz scene as good as any in the world, said Brooklyn transplant It’s a small square room with no stage; the performers stand literally two feet from the customers. Try another? Tokyo’s Kissa Seikatsu Finding some of the tiny jazz joints can be tough, especially if you cannot speak Japanese. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.