Two saxophone colossi dominate this episode as we hit a couple of epic Kyushu joints.
Top Ten Countdown #7: Walls Come Tumbling Down
22/03/2026 | 26min
More craic than intellectualism as our Top 10 countdown continues north of the wall.
Top Ten Countdown #8: Enter (and Exit) Number 8
15/03/2026 | 33min
Our Top 10 countdown continues in two very different apartment buildings.
Top Ten Countdown #9: The Weird and The Welcoming
08/03/2026 | 24min
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.
Top Ten Countdown #10: Charles in Charge
01/03/2026 | 27min
We begin our 'Ten Year Tokyo Jazz Joints Top of the Pops Top 10' countdown in style with two joints linked by an underdog.
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.