MSM Schmidt has been played on NTS in shows including The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones, featured first on 6 June 2014. Songs played include Song For An Unknown Friend.

Born in 1960, I was the benjamin in the family and enjoyed a carefree and well protected childhood. I was first exposed to jazz music by my sister and brother: Since I did not have a room of my own, I bounced back and forth between theirs, listening to John Coltrane, Miles Davis and a lot of the Blue Note stuff as well as to The Rolling Stones and The Beatles.

Owing to my…