Jazz Matters
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', for long-form reading, 'Jazz Lines' is my writing hub — with 'Sleeve Notes' and 'Monthly Features', and separately from that, you’ll find my 'Interviews' and 'The Vault', where I will keep the archive.
Around mid 2026 a full digital relaunch from my new studio follows, and following that in 2027 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.
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', for long-form reading, 'Jazz Lines' is my writing hub — with 'Sleeve Notes' and 'Monthly Features', and separately from that, you’ll find my 'Interviews' and 'The Vault', where I will keep the archive.
Around mid 2026 a full digital relaunch from my new studio follows, and following that in 2027 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.
JM 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.”
Music Player
Choose your stream below to start listening
This year’s monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening — contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, and trusted favourites.
Listen to PodcastsThe full 2025 run — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening, with playlists and notes from my studio.
Listen to PodcastsMy home for contemporary jazz and nu-jazz since 2021 — monthly mixes, specials, and deep listening from my studio.
Listen to PodcastsNuDirections: world-music and jazz-adjacent mixes — Brazilian, Latin, African, Balearic, shaped by a jazz sensibility.
Listen to PodcastsMestizo Sounds: Music without frontiers — roots, rhythm, folk-to-future, and warm dancefloor edges.
Listen to PodcastsGuest mixes from people I rate — eclectic, global sets picked for feel, flow, and surprise.
Listen to Podcasts“Website-only studio sessions for deeper listening — exclusives you won’t find on public platforms.
Listen to PodcastsArchive from 2023: warm jazz grooves, late-night flow, deep cuts, and the foundations of my sound.
Listen to PodcastsArchive from 2022: jazz-rooted mixes, deep atmosphere, modern groove, and the early shape of Jazz Matters.
Listen to PodcastsStarted in 2021: the first Jazz Matters mixes — contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, grooves, and late-night flow.
Listen to PodcastsPlaylists
Show notes & Playlists under constuction
Jazz Lines
Jazz Lines is where I slow things down. It’s the writing side of Jazz Matters — a place for long-form pieces that give the music room to breathe.
Sleeve Notes are the shorter, more frequent posts — the kind of liner-note thinking I miss: what I’m hearing, why it works, and what it connects to. When a piece has audio, I’ll embed a player so you can read and listen in one place.
Monthly Features are my deeper dives: scenes, labels, artists, and the ideas shaping contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, and global crossover sounds.
Interviews sit in their own section, but I’ll link to them when they deepen the story. Everything here is built to stay useful — no hype, no noise, just a clear perspective.
Please scroll down
Sleeve Notes are the shorter, more frequent posts — the kind of liner-note thinking I miss: what I’m hearing, why it works, and what it connects to. When a piece has audio, I’ll embed a player so you can read and listen in one place.
Monthly Features are my deeper dives: scenes, labels, artists, and the ideas shaping contemporary jazz, nu-jazz, and global crossover sounds.
Interviews sit in their own section, but I’ll link to them when they deepen the story. Everything here is built to stay useful — no hype, no noise, just a clear perspective.
Please scroll down
Sleeve Notes
Features
Welcome to Jazz Lines — my long-form writing on Jazz Matters. Monthly Features is where I go deep; for quicker listening notes, see Sleeve Notes and On My Radar.
Interviews
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.
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.
Archive / The Vault)
Welcome to The Vault — my archive for everything around the music on Jazz Matters. Here you’ll find:
If you’re new, start with the Music Player. If you’re digging deeper, this is the place.
- 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.