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Article: The Jazz Life

The Joy of Kissa

by Peter Jones
June 4, 2024

Just before a recent visit to Japan, essential reading arrived at home in the form of Philip Arneill's book Tokyo Jazz Joints (reviewed by Ian Patterson). Well, we all know that jazz is big in Japan, right? Certainly, jazz is a common backdrop to many everyday experiences in that country. You hear it in ...

Article: Chats with Cats

The Jazz Photographer: Philip Arneill

by B.D. Lenz
February 14, 2024

I always find it fascinating when art forms collide. In this case, photography and music. Of course, each has their commonalities but they also have their differences. And, when an artist of one medium can intersect with another medium, their perspective is going to be very interesting. In this case, not only is there a crossing ...

Article: Book Review

Tokyo Jazz Joints

by Ian Patterson
December 28, 2023

Japan's love affair with jazz is an old one. A unique one. It is home to hundreds of jazz-listening bars and cafés, places where chatting is at best frowned upon, and even forbidden between certain hours as the music plays. And where else but in Japan can one find jazz cafés that specialize in playing bebop, ...