James presents Breakfast on ABC Radio Sydney and is also a musician with his own jazz quartet.
He plays regularly around Sydney and at music festivals around the country and, in 2009, released the album Debut.
A familiar face on Australian television, James was the movie reviewer for many years on Showtime, a reporter and commentator on shows such as Sunrise, It Takes Two, Midday, Good Morning Australia and TVTV.
James has also featured as the narrator of Lifestyle Channel's Come Dine With Me Australia as well as the writer of a regular columns for publications including The Australian newspaper.
He began his media career hosting the cartoons for ABCTV in the mid-1980s on a program called The Afternoon Show.
Previously, James was a full time saxophonist recording and touring with Jo Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, Wendy Matthews and most notably The Models, a band that had two number one hits and toured the US and Europe.
James is married, his wife is a Clinical Psychologist and they have two children, Ruby and Roy.