Page 1 - Start During early 2020 NuDirections was started by My Cousin Ray as a weekly radio show on a community radio station in London., and the response was instant and overwhelming that NuDirections started releasing shows on Mixcloud. On Mixcloud NuDirections was constantly in the global top 20 shows, in November 2020 NuDirections left community radio to join Vandelay Radio. Then realising, there is a larger and focused audience, NuDirections left Vandelay in early 2021 to become an independent podcaster broadcasting to a global audience of thousands.
Our Journey Part 1
In July 2021, NuDirections FM was born, following a discussion with friends it was decided to develop NuDirections into an online music platform. NuDirections then morphed into NuDirections FM (NDFM) to become a non-mainstream music service provider, by bringing together music from many different, cultural, ethnic and diverse styles. The music is uncompromising and bold, linking together favourites, standards, experimental, vintage, new, obscure and sometimes challenging music. Always searching for the extreme hard-to-categorize sounds, that has often fallen between the cracks.
Our Journey Part 2
In late 2022 we were decided to develop NDFM into something more than just a music platform and move forward the obvious move was to bring blogs, images, content and videos into NDFM. So, thinking caps on and a great deal of playing with ideas took place,
Our Journey Part 3
Our move forward started in August 2023 after kicking ideas about, learning new skills and purchasing more equipment, we made our move from a music service, to offer you more. NDFM now brings blogs, images, content and videos. We have decided that Jazz Matters is our brand name with the editorial part bringing our blogs, interviews, albums of the week (with a link option to purchase), our selected images and of course our selected music videos together.
Our Journey Part 4
The Music we love is uncompromising and bold. it can only be described by the generic name, Jazz. Every show and mix is a journey linking music that is new, favourites, standards, experimental, vintage, obscure and sometimes challenging. Enjoy the music I love