Matana Roberts hosted a guest show on 23 March 2018. Matana Roberts has been played on NTS over 40 times, featured on 42 episodes and was first played on 1 August 2013.

Matana Roberts is a jazz saxophonist, composer and improviser based in New York City, United States. They are a past member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The Jazz Journalists Association selected Roberts as a finalist nominee for the 2008 Up and Coming Musician of the Year award (which Lionel Loueke ultimately won).

Born in Chicago, United States, Roberts was raised on the city's South Side and studied classical clarinet…