Welcome to
Jazz Matters & World Music

Everything’s working — But I’m making some ongoing improvements and adding new sections.

I built Jazz Matters as my home for contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, and world music — and now it’s also home to a small number of guest shows and mixes from people I rate.

Expect contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, and global sounds — with tracklists, long reads, interviews, and playlists that go deeper than the usual.

Jazz Matters is a not-for-profit hobby project I’m extremely proud of. It began in May 2021 as a weekly radio show on a London community station, and that spirit of discovery still guides everything I do.

Today it reaches 40,000+ open-minded listeners across 57 countries on 24+ platforms.

In 2026, I’m taking things up a gear with clear sections: JM Studio Notes, the Music Player, Show Notes & Playlists, Sleeve Notes, Interviews, and Music Videos.

A full digital relaunch from my new studio follows — and after that, Jazz Matters podcasts and mixes will be exclusive to this website.

A bold new chapter begins soon. New location. New studio. New player.

Jazz Matters — because the music, and everything around it, truly does.

Choose your stream: Jazz Matters • Mestizo Sounds • Guest Shows & Mixes • World Music • NuDirections • Digital Nomad (South America).

My home for contemporary jazz and nu-jazz — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening from my studio.

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Since 2021: contemporary jazz and nu-jazz — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening from my studio

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NuDirections: world-music and jazz-adjacent mixes — Brazilian, Latin, African, Balearic, shaped by a jazz sensibility.

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Studio sessions created for deeper listening, available only via the Jazz Matters website.

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Mestizo Sounds: Music without frontiers — roots, rhythm, folk-to-future, and warm dancefloor edges.

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Andino From Argentina brings Club-leaning South America: Latin electronics, percussive movers and late-night grooves

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Guest mixes from people I rate — eclectic, global sets picked for feel, flow, and surprise, not genre rules.

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My home for contemporary jazz and nu-jazz since 2021 — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening from my studio.

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My early Jazz Matters years — jazz-rooted mixes, deep cuts, and the sound that started it all.

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Early Jazz Matters — warm jazz grooves, late-night flow, and the foundations of my sound.

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Started in 2021: contemporary jazz and nu-jazz — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening from my studio.

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Small updates from inside the Jazz Matters studio — thoughts, ideas, listening moments, works-in-progress, and the little things that shape my week. Nothing formal, nothing polished, just what’s happening behind the shows/mixes, the writing, and the daily rhythm of my musical life.”


Show notes & Playlists under constuction


The People Who Make the Music Happen

Interview with Billy Cobham

Way back in the mid-1970s, Billy Cobham released an album that altered the course of my life, The Album Crosswinds and the track Heather just took my musical mind in a different direction, I started to go to Jazz clubs to hear and see this music that set my mind on fire.

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Interview with Ian Daley

Ian Daley (aka Selwyn) from Route Publisher (Music books). The interview was about the book "Train of Ice and Fire". This is the story about the maddest and most dangerous ever tour done by a rock band. The band was Mano Negra from France. The ex band of its leader Manu Chao.

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The Lost Conversation with Joe Zawinul Part 1

All those that know me – know Joe Zawinul is my music man and my band was Weather report, then the Zawinul Syndicate. Around 2002 Joe released the Faces and places album - I arranged what was my very first interview and it was with Joe Zawinul my music idol, using a mini disc recorder to record a phone call to Joe’s home in the USA.

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Mestizo Sounds present Tom Hingley

Tom was the singer of Inspiral Carpets in the days of the Madchester scene and is one of the greatest voices of his generation

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The Lost Conversation with Joe Zawinul part 2

All those that know me – know Joe Zawinul is my music man and my band was Weather report, then the Zawinul Syndicate. Around 2002 Joe released the Faces and places album - I arranged what was my very first interview and it was with Joe Zawinul my music idol, using a mini disc recorder to record a phone call to Joe’s home in the USA.

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MESTIZO SOUNDS PRESENT BARCELONA MANCHESTER

Mestizo Sounds is continuing with “Let's Talk about Music” series, this new programme will focus on the musical cities of Barcelona and Manchester. Jordi Ballart, a Barcelona native from Hospitalet, writer and Catalan linguist, will talk with Mestizo Sounds about the music of these two cities.

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Archive / The Vault)
Welcome to The Vault — my archive for everything around the music on Jazz Matters. Here you’ll find:

  • JM Studio Notes — short updates, reflections, and works-in-progress.
  • Sleeve Notes — my long-form jazz writing and listening stories
  • Interviews — conversations with artists and behind-the-scenes voices
  • Music Videos — performances and clips that caught my ear and eye.

If you’re new, start with the Music Player. If you’re digging deeper, this is the place.



Please reach out with any comments, suggestions or enquires you might have; I will be more than happy to hear from you.

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