J-Club Club Bandstand

J-Club Club Bandstand runs out of Tokyo with a focus on jazz that respects the genre's entire history without pretending bebop and straight-ahead jazz are the only things that matter. The station includes everything from Coltrane-derived hard bop through contemporary fusion, plus an impressive rotation of Japanese jazz musicians who've absorbed Western jazz language while developing their own voice. Programmers here understand that jazz works best when curators have taste and can connect dots across decades. You hear Thelonious Monk into Kamasi Washington into some Tokyo-based improviser nobod…