Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonJazz supergroups are volatile concoctions, bespoke teams of virtuosi often just getting in each other's way. But the Anglo-US quartet built from scratch this week around the untried partnership of pianist Gwilym Simcock and Sal... more info

Guardian Music — The parents of my friend Josie Miller, who has died aged 94, first met in Stratford, Essex, in the 1890s. Three black circus workers, tired of sleeping under canvas in midwinter, knocked at Rosie Millist's door in search of rooms. Rosie had never met... more info

Guardian Music — (High Note)As the excellent Village Voice columnist Francis Davis remarks in the insert, trumpeter Wallace Roney's rare secret – despite all his Miles Davis connections, personal and musical – lies in "confronting (Miles's) massive infl... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonRonnie Scott's isn't that small by club standards, but Chucho Valdés, the 68-year-old physical and musical giant from Quivicán in Cuba, makes it feel like a shoebox. Valdés's octave span might even have frightened Rachm... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonMarlena Shaw is best known for hits such as the much-sampled and remixed California Soul, though she has the spontaneity and verve of a jazz singer. But she doesn't do jazz standards. (That itch was scratched thoroughly by James... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonSince the American piano firebrand Rachel Carmel Nicolazzo (better known as Rachel Z) has devoted an album to the women artists who have made a difference in her life, she was a sharp choice to headline last week's high-class Wo... more info

Guardian Music — (Dreyfus)Italian saxophonist Rosario Giuliani is at Ronnie Scott's, in London, this weekend, with trumpeter Guy Barker's band, and on this album he hurls more notes and thrills per buck than most of his contemporaries, even in such a garrulous envir... more info

Guardian Music — Legendary British jazz musician who was a composer, arranger, bandleader and educationistLate last November, Sir John Dankworth, who has died aged 82, elicited the most heartfelt standing ovation of his 60-year career in music for what was possibly h... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonJazz mythology has it that Buddy Bolden, the New Orleans jazz cornetist who preceded the recording era, was so loud you could hear him far, far away. Christian Scott, the latest in a long line of star New Orleans brass players, ... more info

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonTaking a guess on how long ago someone put the funk in modern jazz, younger listeners might go for the late 70s. The Jazz Crusaders, though ­travelling under other names then, did it more than 20 years earlier – emergi... more info