Jackson Mathod is a fine young trumpet and flugelhorn player who is emerging on to the UK music scene after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. (Note: pronounced Mathod, where the ‘a’ is flat as in ‘man’ or ‘cat’). When he plays, you can tell how much he cares about his music, but he also can also radiate an enthusiasm that readily engages his audience. Born in London in 1991, Jackson moved with his family to Cambridgeshire where his parents still live. His mother is a glass artist, his father is a photographer and his sister has just begun a fine art course at Leeds Met. Although his family are not musicians, they do enjoy their music: ‘I remember my Dad playing a Miles Davis album to me once,’ Jackson recalls, ‘But that was before I was interested in jazz’.