Saturday, March 29, 2008

warm reflections from a bygone jazz era




dudes. unbelievable. this guy has been collecting whiskey for almost 40 years. he plays only classic jazz. his bar snack are raisins wrapped in butter. it makes sense to me. and here is a bottle of twenty year pappy van winkle bourbon which he paid 600 dollars for. it was amazing. sorry i was a little blurry . people come from all over japan to visit him. the amber house, right here in mito. we listened to the horace silver trio and the john coltrane quartet live in tokyo.
i know i dont deserve it but i got reservations to sushi mizutani in tokyo. some guy at work knows a guy. some say the best in tokyo i.e. the world.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

once again joe looks like you found a great place. i'm more interested in the raisins wrapped in butter than the bourbon,but that's just my pennsylvania dutch roots, were butter is held above all.

please don't do anything you might regret to pay for your 200 dollar sushi at mizutani. but if you do at least it happened in japan and we might not find out about it here on the east coast of the u.s.

Ivor Biggun said...

Great stuff. U been to Speyside way, in Jiyugaoka, Tokyo? Lots of whisky there. 900bottles. Some of them very expensive and special too. But I'm not a whisky drinker. http://www.speysideway.co.jp/
Living in Yokohama and drinking all over the place.