Chris Philips is an award-winning radio presenter, currently heard on Jazz FM UK. He hosts The Blueprint every Saturday night at 10pm. The show focusses new jazz. Chris was also the station’s Head of Music, before taking up the role of Head Of Content at jazzed, the world’s first interactive listen, watch and read app dedicated to jazz and related music.

Chris was an original DJ on K-Jazz, the UK’s first dedicated jazz radio station. In the mid 1980s the pirate station was broadcast from his South London garage on Sundays. K-Jazz featured such luminaries as Gilles Peterson, Jez Nelson, Bob Jones and Kevin Beadle. Later, Chris co-founded Black music station Starpoint.