“The city of Yokohama is an indispensable part of the story of Japanese jazz.” Featured in Philip Arneill’s Tokyo Jazz Joints book, DownBeat is one of the classic […]
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Step into one of the oldest standing jazz kissas in Japan. Founded in 1933 by a 20-year old jazz lover named Mamoru Yoshida, Jazz Cafe Chigusa in Yokohama […]
“One night in a Japanese jazz kissa changed music listening for me forever.” Every now and then, a listening session turns into something more. You lose yourself for […]
A look into some of our favorite audiophile bars around the globe, old and new, from Hong Kong to Miami. In recent years, hi-fi and listening bars have […]
Katsumasa Kusunose, founder of the great Jazz Kissa publication, shares his fifteen favorite jazz kissas in Tokyo. Currently, about 100 jazz kissa and jazz bars are open in […]
Take a look inside Chokuritsu Enjin, a small, strictly jazz bar named after Mingus’ Pithecanthropus Erectus. Via Chasing the Sun Moments, a documentary travel series telling stories from […]
