When I had my jazz binge, sometime in the middle of my long odyssey in the Tokyo area, I was absorbing a lot of artists in the genre including pianist Bill Evans and the legendary Miles Davis. Also, I encountered the wonderful partnership between jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli in Europe and, I also assume, America.
Listening to "Thorn in Your Eyes" by Tokyo Hot Club Band, I got those Reinhardt and Grappelli feelings once more. I don't quite remember how I came across this swing jazz band in the first place since I bookmarked this song several months ago, but I have a feeling that it may have been through Scott's "Holly Jolly X'masu" podcasts. In any case, despite the terror of that title for their 1986 single, "Thorn in Your Eyes" is quite the pleasant number with the violin and the guitar playing off each other in what could be a refined club along the Mediterranean.
Tokyo Hot Club Band got started in November 1985 and consisted initially of producer Muneharu Uragami（浦上宗治）, jazz violinist Sadao Ohya（大矢貞男）and guitarist Kenichi Funayama（船山健一）, There have been a number of changes in the lineup but the band has been able to continue up to at least 2022.
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