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Shorty Long - Function at the Junction
Al Green - Standing In The Rain (scratchandsniff re-rub)
Bill Withers - City of Angels
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (CG refix)
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City - The Reflex Revision
Burnin Beat, Olive Masinga - Burnin Beat (It's Hot)
Tower Of Power - On the Soul Side of Town
Joyce Simms - come into my life
Diana Ross - Love Hangover - The Reflex Remix
Temptations - Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Unreleased ) 15 min
Guts, iZem - L'origine du Monde - iZem Remix
Radar Station - Borders
Bushman - Don't Want To Be No General
ÌFÉ - Music for Egun Movement 2
Scrimshire, Penya - Tanto Tiempo
Light Of The World - Mi Gusta La Samba
Mark Isham - Sympathy And Acknowledgement
cktr -l Robyn
Da Lata & Diabel Cissokho – Mentality
Bokoor Band - Onukpa Shawarpo
Shaun Martin, Matthew Ramsey, Mike “Blaque Dynamite” Mitchell - Afro Blue
Go to https://www.nudirections.net/ for all music playlists and social media links
NuDirections has now moved to Vandelay Radio and will now be putting out a monthly 3-hour radio show, and we will be putting up at least one music mix podcast every week looking at various artists, band, record label, venues and much more - This is a new approach by NuDirections to go places and give you a broader and hopefully better music experience.
Enjoy the Music
MCR
Also this week we’re giving a nod of respect to the passing of José Padilla (DJ) - Padilla was behind the celebrated Café del Mar musical compilation series. He had a wide range of musical tastes, including pastoral groups such as the Penguin Café Orchestra, maverick singer songwriters like John Martyn, flamenco, bossa nova and dub – This week Essential voice is Manu Dibango - the founding father of modern Congolese music, whose band, African Jazz, spearheaded a musical revolution in Africa.
The Budos Band - Snake Hawk
SunPalace, Rude Movements - Moodymann Remix
Made Kuti - Free Your Mind
Roy Ayres - The Third Eye
Bobbi Humphrey - Please Set Me At Ease
Tim Maia - No camino do bem
DJ Jigüe, Alva - Dengele (Makuta Club)
Alfa Mist - Keep On - 4K Mahogany Session
Maze, Frankie Beverly - Twilight (feat. Frankie Beverly)
East Coast Love Affair – Don't Be Afraid
Takuya Kuroda - Rising Son
Essential Voice
Manu Dibango, Cuarteto Patria - Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
Manu Dibango - Dakar Streets
Manu Dibango - New Bell
Babatunde Lea - The Creator Has A Master Plan
Toshio Matsuura Group – Andalusia,
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Kahil El'Zabar, Ernest Dawkins, Joseph Bowie - All Blues
Cannonball Adderley - Mercy Mercy Mercey
Barrio Jazz Gang - Linda Cançao
LCSM (Likwid Continual Space Motion) - More Brilliant Centre
STR4TA - Aspects
Vels Trio - The Wad
Eddie Palmieri – Vamonos Pa’l Monte
United Future Organization – Somewhere
Pharoah Sanders - Moon Child
Kuna Maze – BRKBX
Mari Wilson - I'm Comin' Home
Lamont Butler - Unholy War
Dr. Lonnie Smith, George Benson, Ron Carter, Joe Lovano – Afrodesia
Idrissa Soumaoro et L’eclipse de L’ija – Nissodia
Multiquarium Big Band - Used to Be a Cha Cha
E W Wainwright – Imani - Spiritual Jazz 6
Essential Band
Ezra Collective - Dark Side Riddim
Ezra Collective - Samuel L.Riddim
Ezra Collective, Jorja Smith - Reason in Disguise
SPAZA, Nonku Phiri, Malcolm Jiyane, Gontse Makhene, Ariel Zamonsky – Sizwile
Jab - Directions
William Parker - Soledad – Edited
JISR – Musaka
Uncle Victor Chuks & The Black Irokos – Anya Ukwu
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Spirits up Above
Theo Parish - Who Knew
Grandbrothers - All the Unknown
Waak Waak Djungi
Zopelar - Boogie da Paz
Midland - Final Credits
Wisdom - Nefertiti
Masequa Myers - Black Land of the Nile - Spiritual Jazz 6
Swizwile - Motion Picture Uprize Soundtrack
Cassandra Wilson ft Anjelique Kidjo - run the voodoo down (reprise)
Grace Jones - Slave to the rhythm ''Hot Blooded Version'' (1985)
Kan Sano - Think Twice
King Sunny Ade - Ja Funmi
Oumou Sangaré - Mogoya
Busi Mhlongo - Uganga Nge Ngane
Essential Voice
Quantic, Alice Russell, Quantic and His Combo Barbaro - Travelling Song
Alice Russell - Taking Hold
Alice Russell, TM Juke - Hurry On Now
Nubya Garcia, La Perla - La Cumbia Me Está Llamando [Feat. La Perla]
Muneer B Fennel - Train The Mind
Ego Ella May - In The Morning
Baba Zula - Cecom
Roscoe Weathers - Afro Latin Junto II
Stand High Patrol – Blues
Johnny Harris - Fragment of Fear – From the Columbia Film 'Fragment of Fear'
Sly5thAve, Melissa McMillan - The Night
Kingdom Afrocks - Ichikabachikaano
Fela Kuti - Ye Ye De Smell
The Diabolical Liberties, Emma-Jean Thackray - High Protection
Emma-Jean Thackray - Ley Lines
Nubya Garcia - Lost Kingdoms – Source
Bryony Jarman-Pinto - Sour Face – Cage & Aviary
Ultraísta - Tin King
Sault - Street Fighter
Rim Kwaku Obeng and Kasa - Love Me for Real
Khruangbin - First Class
Gil Scott Heron - Three Miles Down
Doc Daneeka (Edit) - Backstabbin Angie for a Ten Bag
Essential Musician
Joe Zawinul - All About Simon
Joe Zawinul – Bimoya
Joe Zawinul & the Zawinul Syndicate - Badia & Boogie Woogie Waltz
Zilla With Her Eyes Shut = Get Your Way (Bambooman Remix)
Steve Wiliamson - Celestial Bues - vocals Jolica Anderson
Bosq, Kaleta - Wake Up
Alabê KetuJazz, Henrique Band - Aguéré, a Caça de Odé
Asha Puthli – Lies
Nubya Garcia The Message Continues - Source
also music from - Gary Bartz & Maisha - Pharaoh Sanders – Cherise - Nuyorican Soul - Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers - Gabriele Poso
St Germain Gregory Porter - Musical Genocide
Fela Kuti, Roy Ayers 2000 Blacks Got to Be Free – Edit
Amir Bresler, Sefi Zisling, Uzi Ramirez, Rejoicer - Afro Golden Line
Nuyorican Soul - The Nervous Track
Dowdelin, Patchworks - Ka Fwo Bit - Patchworks Remix
Burnin Beat, Olive Masinga - Burnin Beat (It's Hot)
Pharaoh Sanders – Oh Lord Let Me Do No Wrong [Doctor Jazz]
Cherise – Paradise
St Germain - Thank U Mum (K&F Edit)
Grupo Magnético - Vampiras
Wildflower - Other Words
Essential Album - The Gondwana Orchestra, Dwight Trible
The Gondwana Orchestra, Dwight Trible - You've Got to Have Freedom
The Gondwana Orchestra, Dwight Trible -The Creator Has a Master Plan
The Gondwana Orchestra, Dwight Trible - Love Is Everywhere
Gabriele Poso - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Josef Leimberg, Jimetta Rose - Echoes of One
WVR BVBY - Custard Shoulder
Gary Bartz & Maisha - Harlem to Harlem
Tingvall Trio – Flotten
Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Sour Face (Dego Remix)
Georgia Anne Muldrow - ZaneThe Scribe
Blameful Isles – Light of Idun (Áries)
James Brown - Give It Up or Turnit a Loose (Fantasista Re-Formation)
Spanish Harlem Orchestra – La Banda
Grupo X - Kind of Blue
Idris Ackamoor, The Pyramids - When Will I See You Again
St Germain - Real Blues
The Kutimangoes - Thorns to Fruit
Raphael Saadiq - Skyy, Can You Feel Me
Essential Album - Meshell Ndegeocello – Peace Beyond Passion
Meshell Ndegeocello - Mary Magdalene
Meshell Ndegeocello - Who Is He and What Is He to You
Meshell Ndegeocello - Make Me Wanna Holler
Jah Levi & The Higher Reasoning – Version
Yosi Horikawa – Swashers
Secret Night Gang - The Sun
Duval Timothy, Twin Shadow – Groundnut
Latinaotearoa feat Nathan Haines & Julien Dyne - One Tree Bossa
Jyoti, Georgia Anne Muldrow - ZaneThe Scribe
Yazmin Lacey - 90 Degrees
Takuya Kuroda – TKBK
Bep Kororoti & Akin – Ijotiya
Fanatik - Sofrito Cadence Disco Edit
Manu Dibango - Lagos Go Slow
Isaac Hayes - Hung Up On My Baby
Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek - Deniz Dalgasiz Olmaz
COMA-CHI, Josef Leimberg - Water
Gary Peacock who sadly passed away Sept 4th - He was one of the most important bassists in Jazz from the 1960’s – we will finish the show with one of the most outstanding pieces of music from Kieth Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack Dejohnette.
We open with a massive favourite of ours St Germain - So Flute – we've wanted to play it for a while – also a monster Salsa tune Grupo Magnético – Papa was a Rolling Stone – with music from this week's Essential group Ezra Collective – also Keith Jarrett with music from - Conrad Herwig, Michel Camilo - The Truthettes - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Ashley Henry.
St Germain - So Flute
Frank Spirit, Keys of Lynx, Glenn Underground - Virtue - Remix - radio edit
Grupo Magnético - Papa was a Rolling Stone
Conrad Herwig, Michel Camilo - Song for My Father
Essential Group
Ezra Collective - Dark Side Riddim
Ezra Collective, Jorja Smith - Reason in Disguise
Ezra Collective - Samuel L.Riddim
Common, Vinia Mojica, Roy Hargrove, Femi Kuti - Time Travelin' (FelaTribute)
Erik Truffaz Quartet - Rose Rouge
Duval Timothy, Twin Shadow – Groundnut
Khruangbin - First Class
Avishai Cohen, Big Vicious – Teardrop
Baird - Chasing Deer
The Truthettes - So Good to Be Alive
Tingvall Trio – Flotten
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Indigo
Theatre West - No More Junk
Yazmin Lacey - 90 Degrees
Black Milk, Nat Turner – Burn
Ashley Henry, The RE Ensemble - The World Is Yours
Placebo - Inner City Blues
Keith Jarrett - Endless
From the publisher's feed
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 inc Playlists, Sleeve Notes and Interviews.
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.