Guardian Music — Kings Place, London Hindemith, Debussy and Scott Walker featured in the jazz pianist’s pounding trio set with bassist Christian Weber and hardcore punk drummer Eric SchaeferWith his waywardly floppy fringe, approximately respectable concert su... more info

Guardian Music — (Act)With If (Blue) Then (Blue) in 2010, German saxophone legend Heinz Sauer brought his remarkable relationship with pianist Michael Wollny – his junior by at least half a century – to a new high. All Blues (from Miles Davis's Kind of Blue) reap... more info

Guardian Music — Vortex, LondonWorld Service Project, pianist/composer Dave Morecroft's prize-winning young contemporary-jazz band, sounds more aptly named every time they stage Match & Fuse. They invented the inspired border-crossing idea last September, matching a ... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonTrios that sounded bigger than they really are dominated the first two nights of Jazzwise magazine's 15th anniversary week at Ronnie Scott's. On Monday's opening show, the electronic vistas that pianist Kit Downes and the Troyka... more info

Guardian Music — Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about live music you've seen recentlyEach week we publish a list of concerts our writers will be covering in the next few days, and we invite you to tell us about shows you'... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)Young German pianist Michael Wollny brings this spirited trio to Ronnie Scott's next week, for the second night of Jazzwise magazine's festival – and to judge by the four-track live bonus CD that accompanies this adventurous new studio session... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)This is a sampler from ACT Records' catalogue to usher in the label's 20th anniversary. Eighteen tracks represent its diverse artists and an output featuring plenty of accessible, pop-angled funkiness, some of it tellingly personal (singer/tromb... more info

Guardian Music — Radiodreams (ACT)2012 is the 20th-anniversary year of ACT Records, the adventurous German label, founded by former Warner exec Siggi Loch, that introduced the late Esbjörn Svensson to the world. It now supports cutting-edge mavericks such as pianist... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)It might be shortchanging this young German group's distinctive character, but the [em] trio's current music has heir-to-EST written all over it, and not only because they record for the same label that the late Esbjörn Svensson did so much to ... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT 9493-2)Heinz Sauer is a giant of an improviser who deserves to be as well-known across Europe as Jan Garbarek. This is a grainily beautiful episode in his relationship with the young pianist Michael Wollny, a sublime partnership that began in 20... more info