About
AfterT8ste
Some people visit cities.
We follow the music.
AfterT8ste was born from a simple belief: the greatest travel experiences are built around sound. Jazz, R&B, soul, funk, blues: these are not genres, they are geographies.
New Orleans is not just a city. It is a feeling that lives in the French Quarter at midnight. Harlem is a culture that shaped the world. Chicago blues is an entire emotional universe.
We were founded to take people inside that world. Not as tourists, as participants.
We believe that taste is not a luxury: it is a necessity. That music is the most honest guide to any city that has ever existed. And that if you know how to listen, every great city is still playing.
Designed by someone
who lives this world
I am Jay. Jazz found me before I found it.
My musical education began in Canada: summers chasing festivals across Montreal, Vancouver, and Toronto. Evenings in clubs that felt less like venues and more like ceremonies. The music of Eddie Bullen, Gabriel Mark Hasselbach, and others taught me what jazz actually is: not a genre, but a way of being present in a city, in a room, in a moment.
Over the years I found myself in London's Soho rooms, jazz spots in Italian piazzas, the streets of New Orleans, and Scandinavian venues where the silence between notes feels deliberate. In each place I noticed the same thing: the experience was always more than the music.
AfterT8ste was born from that realisation. There was no service that understood all of it; the music, the food, the city after 9pm; and designed around it with genuine taste. So I built it.
I know these worlds. Let me take you inside them.
Jay
Three things we never compromise on
Every venue, restaurant, and hotel is chosen because it is genuinely exceptional. No commercial relationships. No compromises. Ever.
The jazz festival, the late-night club, the live room: these are the anchors. Everything else is designed to match their standard.
No packages. No repeated itineraries. Every experience is built from scratch for the person in front of us.
Heard enough?
Let's begin.
Tell us about the music you follow and the experience you are looking for.