The OK Jazz Podcast is a weekly music show, hosted by James Catchpole aka Mr OK Jazz, playing an eclectic selection of World Music, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Blues and more, ranging from classic tracks to fresh releases. Listen out also for a pick of live music events and gigs going on in the Tokyo and Yokohama areas, with listings posted regularly in the Events section.
PODCASTS
OK Jazz Episode #84 – Interview with Baye McNeil
Special episode of the podcast, where I sat down and had a long chat with educator, activist and fellow Brooklynite in Japan, Baye McNeil....
OK Jazz Podcast #83
Renaud Garcia-Fons - 'Inanga', album The Enja Heritage Collection (France)
Lucibela - 'Chica di Nha Maninha', album Laco Umbilical (Cape Verde)
Billy Preston - 'Right Now',...
OK Jazz Podcast #82
Tuuletar - 'Alku', album Tules Maas Vedes Taivaal (Finland)
Minyo Crusaders - 'Mamurogawa Ondo', album Echoes of Japan (Japan)
Lindigo - 'Komsa Gayar', album Komsa Gayar...
OK Jazz Podcast #81
James 'Creole' Thomas & The Omas Sextet - 'First Ways', album Omas Sextet (Haiti/USA)
Yusuke Shima & Yutaka Oyama - 'Caravan', album Wa Jazz Vol.2...
OK Jazz Podcast #80
Emanative - 'Egosystem (Solar Noon)', album Earth (UK)
Stevie Wonder - 'Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day' (USA)
Kasai Masai - 'Nabala Jeanpa', album Sunshine Music (Congo/UK)
Sekouba Bambino - 'Kaba Moussou',...
OK Jazz Podcast #79
Woody Shaw - 'The Moontrane', album The Moontrane (USA)
Kasai Masai - 'Se Ke Bien', album Sunshine Music (Congo/UK)
The Meters - 'Just Kissed My Baby'...
OK Jazz Podcast #78
T-Riot - "A Different Truth", album A Different Truth (Italy)
Jr. Walker & The All Stars - 'Cleo's Mood' (USA)
Hank Ballard - 'With Your Sweet...
OK Jazz Podcast #77
Chris Mcgregor's Brotherhood of Breath - 'MRA', album Chris Mcgregor's Brotherhood of Breath (South Africa/UK)
Smashing Pumpkins - 'I Am One', album Gish (USA)
The Shirelles...
OK Jazz Podcast #76
Dave Holland Quartet - 'Four Winds', album Conference Of The Birds (UK/USA)
Ike & Tina Turner - 'Proud Mary' (USA)
Mister Ott - 'Dragon Majesty', album...
OK Jazz Podcast #75
Salif Keita (w/Cesaria Evora) - 'Yamore', album Moffou (Mali/Cape Verde)
Chip Wickham - 'Snake Eyes', album Shamal Wind (UK)
Stevie Wonder - 'Golden Lady', album Innervisions...
OK Jazz Podcast #74
Aretha Franklin - 'You Are My Sunshine', album Aretha Arrives (USA)
Lonnie Smith - 'I Feel The Earth Move', album Mama Wailer (USA)
Martijn Van Iterson...
OK Jazz Podcast #73
T-Riot - 'I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free', album A Different Truth (Italy)
Elmore James - 'Madison Blues', album Blues...
OK Jazz Podcast #72
Sonny Rollins - 'The Cutting Edge', album The Cutting Edge (USA)
Billy Preston - 'i've Got A Feeling', album Encouraging Words (USA)
Granmoun Lele - 'La...
OK Jazz Podcast #71
Mandrill - 'Ape Is High', album Fencewalk: The Anthology (USA)
Tim Maia - 'Do Your Thing, Behave Yourself', album Tim Maia (Brazil)
Indra Lesmana Keytar Trio...
OK Jazz Podcast #70
Indra Lesmana Keytar Trio - 'Yb0df', album About Jack (Indonesia)
Chip Wickham - 'Barrio 71', album Shamal Wind (UK)
Takumi Moriya Black Nation - 'Shakey Jake'...
OK Jazz Podcast #69
Van Morrison - 'Astral Weeks', album Astral Weeks (N.Ireland/USA)
Nadir - 'Ikan Kekek', album Synesthesia (Malaysia)
Mark Wade Trio - 'The Quarter', album Moving Day (USA)
Jaribu...
OK Jazz Podcast #68
Susana Baca - 'De Los Amores', album Eco de Sombras (Peru)
The Isley Brothers - 'Listen To The Music', album 3+3 (USA)
Weldon Irvine - 'We're...
OK Jazz Podcast #67
Albert King - 'Cold Sweat', album Funky London (USA)
Takana Miyamoto - 'On My Way', album On My Way (Japan/USA)
Jaribu Afrobeat Arkestra - 'This Day'...
OK Jazz Episode #66
Max Roach - 'Absolutions', album Members, Don't Git Weary (USA)
Willie Henderson & The Soul Explosions - 'Funky Chicken Part 1', album Funky Chicken (USA)
Orlando...
OK Jazz Episode #65
McCoy Tyner - 'Passion Dance', album The Real McCoy (USA)
Papa Noel & Papi Oviedo - 'Kin Havane', album Bana Congo (Congo/Cuba)
Alemayehu Eshete - 'Betchayen...
OK Jazz Episode #64
Lee Morgan - 'Cornbread', album Cornbread (USA)
Nina Miranda - 'Capoeria', album Freedom of Movement (Brazil/UK)
Blind Willie Johnson - 'In My Time Of Dying' (USA)
Christian...
OK Jazz Episode #63
Eiji Nakayama - 'Aya's Samba', album J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1984 (Japan)
Stuff - 'My Sweetness', album Stuff (USA)
Slim Harpo - 'I'm...
OK Jazz Episode 62
Anouar Brahem - 'Opening Day', album Blue Maqams (Tunisia)
WITCH - 'Janet' (Zambia)
Takeshi Ohbayashi - 'Cill My Landlord', album Manhattan (Japan/USA)
Takao Uematsu - 'White Fire',...
OK Jazz Episode 61 – Anniversary Special Part 2
Trio de Kali & Kronos Quartet - 'God Shall Wipe All Tears Away', album Ladilikan (Mali & USA)
Warsaw Village Band - 'Fly My Voice',...
OK Jazz Episode 60 – Anniversary Special Part 1
Sonny Boy Williamson II - 'Bring It On Home', album Blues Masters Vol. 6
Radiohead - 'Just', album The Bends
A Tribe Called Quest - '1nce...
OK Jazz Episode 59
George Benson - 'California Dreaming', album White Rabbit (USA)
Oumou Sangare - 'Kamelemba', album Mogoya (Mali)
Steely Dan - 'My Old School', album Countdown To Ecstasy...
OK Jazz Episode 58
Otis Redding - 'Shake', album The Stax-Volt Singles VOl. 1, Disc 7 (USA)
Esther Phillips - 'Sweet Touch Of Love', album From A Whisper To...
OK Jazz Episode 57
Taj Mahal - 'She Caught The Katy and Left Me A Mule To Ride', album The Real Thing (USA)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - 'Stone...
Ok Jazz Episode 56
Keeley Bumford - 'Theme From Ever After High' (USA)
The Upsetters - 'Return of Django', album Complete UK Upsetter Singles Vol. 1 (Jamaica)
Gabor Szabo -...
OK Jazz Episode 55
George Benson - 'White Rabbit', album White Rabbit (USA)
The Dramatics - 'The Devil Is Dope' (USA)
Esther Phillips - 'Til My Back Ain't Got No...
OK Jazz Episode 54
Idris Muhammad - 'Loran's Dance', album Power of Soul (USA)
Leroy Sibbels - 'Express Yourself', album Studio One Soul (Jamaica)
AQUAPIT - 'Linda', album Dance With...
OK Jazz Episode 53
RM Jazz Legacy - 'Beyond Of The Night', album 2 (Japan)
Yutaka Oyama & Yusuke Shima - 'El Sol', album Oyama Yutaka meets Shima Yusuke...
OK Jazz Episode 52
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - 'He's A Superstar', album He's Coming (USA)
Ray Barretto - 'Pastime Paradise', album La Cuna (USA)
The World Trio - 'Seven Rings'...
OK Jazz Episode 51
Gabor Szabo - 'Macho', album Macho (Hungary/USA)
The O'Jays - 'Give The People What They Want' (USA)
Nitin Sawhney - 'Footsteps', album Philtre (UK)
Hallelujah Chicken Run...
Total Playlist OK Jazz Eps 1-50
A Tribe Called Quest – ‘Stir It Up (Steve Biko)’, album Midnight Marauders (USA)
Aaron Choulai/Chantal Mitvalsky/Shun Ishiwaka – ‘Dragon Child’ (Australia/Japan)
Abdullah Ibrahim – ‘African...
OK Jazz Episode 50
Ramsey Lewis Trio - 'Wade In The Water' (USA)
The Staple Singers - 'We Got To Get Ourselves Together' (USA)
Chip Wickham - 'Sling Shot', album...
OK Jazz Episode 49
Stevie Wonder - 'Too High', album Innervisions (USA)
Foltin - 'Donkey Hot', album Donkey Hot (Macedonia)
Yotam Silberstein - 'Milonga Gris', album The Village (Israel/USA)
Charles Mingus...
OK Jazz Episode 48
Yusef Lateef - 'Juba Juba', album The Blue Yusef Lateef (USA)
Rotary Connection - 'I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun' (USA)
Fruko Y Sus...
OK Jazz Episode 47
Oscar Peterson w/Clark Terry - 'Mumbles', album Oscar Peterson Trio + 1 (USA)
Yutaka Oyama & Yusuke Shima - 'Sweet Esquiva', album Yusuke Oyama meets...
OK Jazz Episode 46
Theme from the TV Show Barney Miller (USA)
The New Cool Collective - 'The Canteen', album Chin-Chin (Holland)
Cornell Dupree - 'Freedom Jazz Dance', albums Bop...
OK Jazz Episode 45
Tito Rodriguez & His Orchestra - 'Descarga Cachao', album Sabroso: The Afro-Latin Groove (USA)
Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers - 'Heat!', album Sabroso: The...
OK Jazz Episode 44
Bobby Hutcherson - 'Aquarian Moon', album Happenings (USA)
Bobby Hutcherson - 'Herzog', album Total Eclipse (USA)
McCoy Tyner & Bobby Hutcherson - 'African Village', album Time...
OK Jazz Episode 43
Jorge Ben - 'Comanche', album Negro e Lindo (Brazil)
Graveola - 'Aurora', album Camaleo Borboleta (Brazil)
Bobby Womack - 'It's Gonna Rain', album Womack In Memphis...
OK Jazz Episode 42 – July 4th Special!
Booker T. & The MG's - 'Time Is Tight'
Edwin Starr - '25 Miles'
Aretha Franklin - 'Dr. Feelgood'
Howlin' Wolf - 'Moanin At Midnight'
Carl Perkins -...
OK Jazz Episode 41
Cymande - 'Fug', album The Best of Cymande (UK)
Baeshi Bang - 'Taeyangei Jeopyon' , album Baeshi Bang (France)
Gregory Porter - 'Consequence Of Love', album...
OK Jazz Episode 40
Etta James - 'Something's Got A Hold Of Me', album Etta James Rocks The House (USA)
Cecilia Todd - 'Polo Margariteno' (Venezuela)
Alcione - 'Nzambi Muadiakime',...
OK Jazz Episode 39
Richard 'Groove' Holmes - 'Groovin With Mr. G', album Blue Break Beats Vol. 1 (USA)
Alcione - 'Forca do Amor', album Alcione (Brazil)
Hampton Hawes -...
OK Jazz Episode 38
Fela Kuti - 'Fefe Naa Efe', album The Shrine/Afrobeat (Nigeria)
Billy Paul - 'Your Song', album 360 Degrees Of Billy Paul (USA)
Mark Wade - 'Jump...
OK Jazz Episode 37
Shuggie Otis - 'Oxford Grey', album Here Comes Shuggie Otis (USA)
Grant Green - 'Sunday Mornin', album Sunday Mornin' (USA)
The Isley Brothers - 'That Lady',...
OK Jazz Episode 36
Prince - 'Alphabet St.', album Lovesexy (USA)
Salif Keita - 'Sina', album Soro (Mali)
Willie Rosario & His Orchestra - 'Watsui Boogaloo', album Sabroso: The Afro...
OK Jazz Episode 35
Cannonball Adderley Quintet - 'Walk Tall', album Country Preacher (USA)
The Highlighters Band - 'The Funky 16 Corners', album The Funky 16 Corners (USA)
Sam Mangwana...
OK Jazz Episode 34
Olu Dara - 'Okra', album 'In The World: From Natchez to New York' (USA)
Songhai - 'Jarabi', album Songhai (Spain/Mali/UK)
A Tribe Called Quest - 'Stir...
OK Jazz Episode 33
The Isley Brothers - 'It's Your Thing', album It's Your Thing: The Isley Brothers Story (USA)
Chris Combette - 'Mano', album Les Enfants De Goree...
OK Jazz Episode 32
Curtis Mayfield - 'Little Child, RunningWild', album Superfly (USA)
Dhafer Youssef & Wolfgang Muthspiel, album Glow (Tunisia/Austria)
Dizzy Gillespie - 'Alligator', album The Real Thing (USA)
The...
OK Jazz Episode 31
Cheikh Lo - 'Baissons Les Armes', album Balbalou (Senegal)
Fatback Band - 'Fatbackin' (USA)
Wolfgang Muthspiel & Dhafer Youssef - 'Etude #3', album Glow (Austria/Tunisia)
Cornell Dupree...
OK Jazz Episode 30
Jimmy McGriff - 'The Worm', album The Worm (USA)
Gabor Szabo w/Bobby Womack - 'If You Don't Want My Love', album High Contrast (USA)
Berardi Jazz...
OK Jazz Episode 29
Bob Dorough - 'Three Is The Magic Number', album Blue Break Beats Vol. 3 (USA)
Ernest Ranglin - 'King Tubby Meets The Rockers', album Below...
OK Jazz Episode 28
Earth, Wind & Fire - 'Serpentine Fire' (USA)
Skip Easterling - 'I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man', album Voodoo Soul (USA)
The Wild Tchoupitoulas - 'Meet De...
OK Jazz Episode 27
Bobby Hutcherson - 'Aquarian Moon', album Happenings (USA)
Sam Mangwana & Franco et le T.P. O.K. Jazz - 'Tranberos', album Forever (Congo)
Mohammed M. Kooshin -...
OK Jazz Episode 26
Yusef Lateef - 'Blues For The Orient', album Eastern Sounds (USA)
Gabor Szabo - 'Mizrab', album The Sorcerer (USA/Hungary)
Matt Geraghty Project - 'In The Temple'...
OK Jazz Episode 25
David Bowie - 'Speed Of Life', album Low (UK)
Radio Tarifa - 'Osu', album Cruzando El Rio (Spain)
Gabor Szabo - 'Fingers', album High Contrast (USA/Hungary)
Graveola...
OK Jazz Episode 24
Gabor Szabo - 'Bacchanal', album Bacchanal (USA/Hungary)
Gabor Szabo - 'The Beat Goes On', album The Sorcerer (USA/Hungary)
The Main Ingredient - 'Everybody Plays The Fool'...
OK Jazz Episode 23
John Lee Hooker - 'Teaching The Blues', album The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990 (USA)
Blick Bassy - 'Lon', album Ako (Cameroon)
Cacapa - 'Coco Rajao 4', album...
OK Jazz Episode 22
Grant Green - 'Blues For Willarene', album Grant's First Stand (USA)
Anyango - 'Kariobangi', album Savanna (Japan)
Burhan Ocal & Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - 'Kapali Carsi...
OK Jazz Episode 21
Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas - 'Zydeco Cha Cha', album Hang It High, Hang It Low (USA)
Lee Dorsey - 'Everything I Do Gohn...
OK Jazz Episode 20
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - 'Three For The Festival', album We Free Kings (USA)
Mory Kante - 'Mama', album Sabou (Guinea)
Mamy Kanoute - 'Bah Poulho', album...
OK Jazz Episode 19
Wayne Shorter - 'Witch Hunt', album Speak No Evil (USA)
Vince Guaraldi Trio - 'Linus & Lucy' (USA)
Dayme Arocena - 'Drama', album Nueva Era (Cuba)
Jonathan...
OK Jazz Episode 18
Swinging soul-jazz, Don Pullen live tracks, Congolese rumba classics, Aboriginal folk & more!
OK Jazz Episode 17
Back from a long delay! New & old jazz, African rock, Stevie Wonder & more.
OK Jazz Episode 16
Tenor Sax Titans, Colombian Classics, Chicago Blues & more.
OK Jazz Episode 15
Hot summer grooves, Sukiyaki Meets The World Festival preview, Miles Davis, soundtrack songs and more!
OK Jazz Episode 14
Featuring tracks from Bobby Womack, Eric Agyeman, Ahmad Jamal, Cheikh Lo, Miriam Makeba, Cuatro Minimal, John Coltrane, and Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal.
OK Jazz Episode 13
Featuring tracks from Cheikh Lo, Ze Da Guiomar, Mark Giuliana Jazz Quartet, Miyakawa Jun, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Teta, Kikuchi Masabumi & Watanabe Sadao, Milimani Park Orchestra, Ibrahim Maalouf, Woody Guthrie, and Ray Charles.
OK Jazz Episode 12
Featuring tracks from Miles Davis, Mbongwana Star, Cheikh Lo, Milimani Park Orchestra, Xalam, D’Gary, Nicholas Payton and Jun Miyakawa.
OK Jazz Episode 11
Featuring tracks from The Jazz Crusaders, Donny Hathaway, The Commodores, Prince Nico Mbarga, Ruben Gonzalez, Cheikh Lo, Charles Mingus, Mbongwana Star and Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes.
OK Jazz Episode 10
Featuring tracks from Ornette Coleman & Prime Time, Cheikh Lo, Radio Tarifa, Bobby Hutcherson, Manu Katche, Fatoumata Diawara, Manu Dibango, Q.A.S.B., and Jaribu Afrobeat Arkestra.
OK Jazz Episode 9
Featuring tracks from Cheikh Lo, B.B. King, Derrick Hodge, Songhoy Blues, Pepe Kalle & Empire Bakuba, Vijay Iyer Trio, Brook Benton and Eric Dolphy.
OK Jazz Episode 8
Groovy guitar, Senegalese Pop, spaced out world-jazz and a Cuban-Congolese collaboration, all on episode 8 of OK Jazz!
OK Jazz Episode 7
Featuring tracks from Cheikh Lo, Buddy Guy, Mahsa Vahdat, Djessou Mory Kante, Foumoudou Don Moye, Ibrahim Maalouf, Sun Ra, Miles Davis & John Coltrane, Abdullah Ibrahim and Van Morrision.
OK Jazz Episode 6
Classic Miles, new blues from Mali, three tracks from Eric Harland's Voyager, Memphis Soul..Episode 6 is here!
OK Jazz Episode 5
Classic funk/rock, new music from Vijay Iyer, Maninka guitar and more.
OK Jazz Episode 4
Australian Funk, Nigerian DIsco, Norwegian Space-Jazz, Solo Charles Lloyd & more!
OK Jazz Episode 3
Episode 3 goes to Brazil, Thailand, Congo, Angola & the US!
OK Jazz Episode 2
Episode 2 - guitar heaven!
OK Jazz Episode 1
Found the once lost episode 1!