Jazz Matters

 This month's show is all about the live music that I have seen over the summer. From local gigs, festivals and gigs in New York, This is the sounds of my summer. Info Website - www.raysroom.org Music Player - https://pod.co/nudirections Tracklist 1. Magic in Threes - Rancho Relaxo 2. Jimetta Rose and the Voices of Creation - Let the Sunshine in 3. Children of Zeus - Still Standing 4. Children of...

This programme is a small sample of the great music from North Africa. My selection includes traditional and modern music. The exotic sounds of North African music and its hypnotic rhythms have attracted some famous Western rock musicians. Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in 1968 found trance music in Morocco with The Master Musicians of Jajouka so powerful that he recorded a live album presented...

 Welcome along to my African extended mix, my first after our long summer break, in this mix, you will hear a spread of Jazz from the continent of Africa. As I was carried away preparing for this mix, what started as around a one-hour mix grew into a two-hour mix. The music I select for you will be unlike anything else you’ll hardly hear elsewhere, my playlists are always uncompromising, bold and...

Balance in Thinkin' about Ivan Conti 16 August 1946 - 17th April 2023 (age 76) Ivan Conti (aka Mamao) was regarded as one of the greatest drummers on earth. A true rhythmic innovator, Starting his music career as a session drummer with Odeon Records, Ivan collaborated with artists such as Gal Costa, Roberto Carlos and Jorge Ben Ivan gained standing as one of the founding members of Azymuth and is...

 Welcome to the first Jazz Matters show, the response to my Jazz Matters mixes was overwhelming, so I've decided to make it into a monthly show. Jazz is the music that has a special place in my musical heart and this monthly show will lean heavily into Jazz with occasional musical excursions into other genres. The music I select for you will be unlike anything else you’ll hardly hear elsewhere, my...

This new programme is about the influence of Ralph Hutter and Florian Schneider, the leaders of the German band KRAFTWERK, in modern Pop music and other different trends. Probably, the most influential band in the history of pop music, especially since the ninety-eighties The playlist is a journey of modern music covering from the German underground scene where Kraftwerk started to the electronic...

This is a Mix recorded live during one of my sets in Saigon. It's a selection of House and Groovy tracks that I love playing loud and want to share it with you. Have fun and enjoy the music we love Info NDFM Website - info – pics – Content - Music Videos – NDFM’s Music Player Please go to - https://www.nudirectionsfm.com/ Andino Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/andinoofficial Andino Instagram...

 The "Long Way Home" mix tries to capture the real or imaginary journey for safety and security in the face of menace. PLAYLIST 1- As the world turns out - JESSICA PRATT 2- Caught low - ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER 3- Porth la - GWENNO 4- Vento Bravo - EDU LOBO 5- Vidiconia I - BIBIO 6- Saans Lo - AROOJ AFTAB 7- Anything could happen - THE CLEAN 8- Rhododendron - HURRAY FOR THE RIF RAF 9- It’s...

The new mix is a selection of hot tropical sounds. Cumbias, porro, cumbia rock, reggae, ska, samba, dancehall, maracatú and many more. Traditional and modern sounds blended together for a musical journey around the tropics in the American continent. Enjoy its flavours! Info NDFM Website - info – pics – Content - Music Videos – NDFM’s Music Player Please go to - https://www.nudirectionsfm.com/ Plea...

Info NDFM Website - info – pics – Content - Music Videos – NDFM’s Music Player Please go to - https://www.nudirectionsfm.com/ For Adino Music - https://www.facebook.com/andinoofficial Please enjoy the music I love Music Gilgamesh - Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into (78) 1. Darker Brighter  2. Bobberty - Theme From Something Else 3. Waiting 4. Play Time  5. Underwater Song  6. Foel'd Again  7. T...

 Welcome to my Balance Jazz Matters mix, this mix is a small taster of the Jazz that is bursting from the vibrant UK Jazz scene to the point of exploding. I shall try to give you a spread of just some of the exquisite jazz music that is around, it’s the music that has either caught my ears, been told about and I would love to share with you. The music I love ranges from Rare Grooves, Jazz, Jazz Fu...

Mestizo Sounds presents, Jazz Thing Mix, a music selection incorporating a jazz element. Acid Jazz and Talkin' Loud were recording labels in the House music era of raves in the late eighties and nineties that took jazz as inspiration for a new form of the club dance scene. Schema is a record label from Milan created in 1997 that took the baton of those labels. These labels influenced the emerging...

 I’m in the process of digitizing my music collection, and it’s taken ages and ages as I’m copying it in real-time and all my digitized music is stored using wav files, and of course I'm coming across music I’ve not listened to for some time. So I decided to do a series of mixes Forgotten Treasures, based upon some of my rediscoveries, there is no planning, no genre, no sequencing to balance the m...

This mix leans heavily on music I adore from Latrama, whose music can only be described as global beats with deep Indian music influences and a sprinkling of music from the legendary Jose Padilla. This mix is for the end of daylight as the sun is sinking below the horizon and darkness arrives, with the cocktail of music that has either caught my ears, been told about or I would love to share with...

The New Sounds of the Revolution (1960 - 1989) The show continues the series of Cuban music that started with the "Sabor Añejo" show made last year in July 2022. This new Cuban programme is about the years of the revolution in the sixties, seventies and eighties. The music includes diverse genres and styles from traditional Son to modern Jazz Funk music but also new styles created in those years i...

Welcome to my Balance mix ‘Jazz & Beyond’, It’s a cocktail of music that has either caught my ears, been told about or I would love to share with you. The music I love ranges from Rare Grooves, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Dance, NuJazz, Soul, Funk and World Music, and past, present and future flavours from far and wide with a little nod to the left side and a little sprinkling of electronica. My p...

Welcome to my Balance mix ‘Jazz & Beyond’, It’s a cocktail of music that has either caught my ears, been told about or I would love to share with you. The music I love ranges from Rare Grooves, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Dance, NuJazz, Soul, Funk and World Music, and past, present and future flavours from far and wide with a little nod to the left side and a little sprinkling of electronica. My p...

Welcome to this Balance Jazz & Beyond Mix, a cocktail of the music that has caught my ears, been told about or what I would love to share with you, from Rare Grooves, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Dance, NuJazz, Soul, Funk and World Music, past, present and future flavours from far and wide with a little nod to the left side and a little sprinkling of electronica. My playlists are always uncompromis...

Info - NDFM NDFM Website - info – pics – Content - Music Videos – NDFM’s Music Player Please go to - https://www.nudirectionsfm.com/ Info - Andino Ngữ Hồ Official:  https://www.youtube.com/@kaliho   Andino:  facebook.com/andinoofficial Please enjoy the music I love Playlist  1 Bài Hát Của Em - Uyên Linh 2 LÊ CÁT TRỌNG LÝ - tám chữ có/There Were ft. KENYAN BOYS CHOIR  3 Lê Cát Trọng Lý - Em đứng tr...

Info  NDFM Website - info – pics – Content - Music Videos & NDFM’s Music Player Please go to - https://www.nudirectionsfm.com/ Please enjoy the music I love. PLAYLIST 1- (You got to) Keep your funky soul struttin’ sassy - LES ANGES DE LA NUIT 2- Sling & Solution - EL MALO 3- Oh Oh - FEMI KUTI 4- Esto parece amor (love vibes) - MONTANA 5- The love I lost - HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES...

In this mix, I give my respectful nod to Stomu Yamashta and my tribute to the wonderful voice we have lost, Linda Lewis from the last of the Go Sessions, In the last album of the trilogy, a stroke of genius was made by Stomu Yamashta, the decision to bring in Linda Lewis for the lead female voice. Later this year I will produce another mix where I will dig deeper into the Go series of albums. RIP...

Info NDFM Website - info – pics – Content - Music Videos – NDFM’s Music Player Please go to - https://linktr.ee/NDFM Please enjoy the music I love Art of Tones & Chatobaron - La Chatte Au Baron  Madcat - Es Vedra (the Mystical Island) Sound Support - Bump Into You  Gustavo Cerati - Vivo (Nicolas Navarro Rework) PillowTalk & Soul Clap - Love Train feat. Greg Paul  Yamaha Blessing - Torsh  H...

“We’ll Always Have Paris” is a musical podcast in homage to La Chanson Française and some of its great interpreters from the past to these days. This programme includes yeyés, romantic crooners, existentialists, protesters, surrealists, subversives and rock & rollers. Mestizo Sounds want to thank the Spanish radio DJ Juan de Pablos. Flor de Pasión,  a unique radio programme from 1979 until his...

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. Through Billy's music, I was introduced to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Al DE Meola, Chick Corea, Return To Foreve...

 This mix is a bit of a rewind – some vintage – some new – some favorites of mine – I start on an upbeat note with Charles Earland, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson – Leaving this planet followed by SLEEP WALKER, Pharoah Sanders - The Voyage – then I go slowly towards a nice laid back where our mind join with the love of music Info For all of our Links - NDFM Website - info – pics – Content - Music...