Guardian Music — (Concord)This is 25-year-old Arianna Neikrug’s debut album, and a startling experience it can be, if you’re unprepared for it. Instead of the customary glossy full orchestra there is a piano trio, and the pianist (also arranger and prod... more info

Chicago Tribune — A farewell performance by Chicago pianist Ramsey Lewis, a themed concert by Orbert Davis and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic and homecoming sets by former Chicagoans Nicole Mitchell and Kurt Elling will headline the 40th annual Chicago Jazz Festival, r... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Dianne Reeves, Maceo Parker, Kurt Elling among the headliners for the 40th annual music festival, which will run for 10 days. more info

Chicago Tribune — For two decades, pianist Laurence Hobgood was best known as accompanist and primary arranger for singer Kurt Elling. When the two abruptly parted company in 2013, one wondered how Hobgood would go about forging a musical identity of his own. Singers,... more info

New York Times — Wynton Marsalis, Chick Corea and Kurt Elling will perform, starting in September. more info

Chicago Tribune — Saxophonist Branford Marsalis has done a great favor for singer Kurt Elling. Not so much in the form of their recent recording, "Upward Spiral," its moments of exuberant music-making counterbalanced, alas, by many stretches of torpor. But in concert ... more info

Core News — “Gilles opens the show this week with a tribute to Brainfeeder’s Austin Peralta, the jazz pianist who passed away this week at the age of 22. Austin performed an incredible session at Maida Vale for Gilles’ Radio 1 show last year, and will be s... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonKurt Elling walks on stage as if he owns it, launches into Come Fly with Me, and the packed audience greet him as if he were the king of jazz singers. Elling's jazz festival set was dominated by numbers from 1619 Broadway,... more info

Guardian Music — 'It's hard to read Heidegger, especially if you spent the night before sitting in with Chicago's jazz musicians'When did you discover jazz?By hearing people like Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee and Andy Williams. My folks liked to drive across the country t... more info

Guardian Music — The London jazz festival starts on Friday 9 November, and here are our critics' picks of what to see – plus suggestions from performers including Robert Glasper and Gwyneth HerbertGuy Barker's Jazz Voices: Celebrating a Century of SongBarbican, Fri... more info