2026 monthly shows, music selections, specials, and deep listening — contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, and trusted favourites.
Start Listening NowJazz Matters
The Sound Between the Dots
Contemporary jazz. Global sounds.
And deeper listening.
Welcome to Jazz Matters
Jazz Matters is my independent home for contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, world music, and jazz-adjacent sounds, as well as sessions, interviews, playlists, and long-form writing.
It began in May 2021 as a weekly radio show on a London community station. Since then, it has grown into a wider music platform built around discovery, context, and careful listening.
This website is the centre of Jazz Matters.
Listen to the music through the Music Player. Read JM Studio Notes — small updates from inside the Jazz Matters studio. Sleeve Notes is my blog space for reflections, listening notes, and music-led thoughts. Features is where I go deeper into the music, artists, places, and ideas that shape Jazz Matters.
The Jazz Matters Conversation Room is where the interviews live — conversations with artists, DJs, broadcasters, label people, promoters, venue managers, and the people who help make the music happen.
I will also be introducing The Vault — selected archive pieces, past features, and important material from the Jazz Matters story.
No noise. No chasing algorithms. Just music with space, story, and purpose.
Jazz Matters — because the music, and everything around it, truly does.
It began in May 2021 as a weekly radio show on a London community station. Since then, it has grown into a wider music platform built around discovery, context, and careful listening.
This website is the centre of Jazz Matters.
Listen to the music through the Music Player. Read JM Studio Notes — small updates from inside the Jazz Matters studio. Sleeve Notes is my blog space for reflections, listening notes, and music-led thoughts. Features is where I go deeper into the music, artists, places, and ideas that shape Jazz Matters.
The Jazz Matters Conversation Room is where the interviews live — conversations with artists, DJs, broadcasters, label people, promoters, venue managers, and the people who help make the music happen.
I will also be introducing The Vault — selected archive pieces, past features, and important material from the Jazz Matters story.
No noise. No chasing algorithms. Just music with space, story, and purpose.
Jazz Matters — because the music, and everything around it, truly does.
Music Player
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The full 2025 run — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening, with playlists and notes from my studio.
Start Listening NowContemporary jazz and nu-jazz — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening from my studio.
Start Listening Now“Website-only studio sessions for deeper listening — exclusives you won’t find on public platforms.
Start Listening NowMestizo Sounds: Music without frontiers — roots, rhythm, folk-to-future, and warm dancefloor edges.
Start Listening NowSouth America: Latin electronics, percussive movers, jazz-tinted heat, and late-night travel grooves.
Start Listening NowGuest mixes from people I rate — eclectic, global sets picked for feel, flow, and surprise.
Start Listening NowThese shows and mixes lean jazz-first, but they already point toward the contemporary edges I love.
Start Listening NowArchive from 2022: warm jazz grooves, late-night flow, deep cuts, and the foundations of my sound.
Start Listening NowMy archive from the Jazz Matters / Balance era — Guesting at Vanderlay Radio, the early building blocks of the platform
Start Listening NowMy journey started with NuDirections, Balance, then Jazz Matters — playing the grooves I love. Enjoy
Start Listening NowJM Studio Notes
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.”
Sleeve Notes
Sleeve Notes is my blog space for listening notes, reflections, and music-led thoughts for frequent posts, the kind of liner-note thinking I miss: what I’m hearing, why it works, and what it connects to.
Features
Where I take a deeper look at the music, artists, and ideas that shape Jazz Matters..
Interviews
The Jazz Matters Conversation Room
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The Vault
The Vault — selected archive pieces, past features, and important material from the Jazz Matters story.
JM Studio Notes — short updates, reflections, and notes from the studio.
Sleeve Notes — my long-form jazz writing and listening stories.
Features — deeper articles, artist pieces, label stories, and music-focused essays.
Interviews — conversations with artists and behind-the-scenes voices...
Deeper digging, start here.
JM Studio Notes — short updates, reflections, and notes from the studio.
Sleeve Notes — my long-form jazz writing and listening stories.
Features — deeper articles, artist pieces, label stories, and music-focused essays.
Interviews — conversations with artists and behind-the-scenes voices...
Deeper digging, start here.