Elegance and spike! Lovely posthumous release from the ate RON MILES on Blue Note Records. OLD MAIN CHAPEL reviewed in FT Weekend. Here's the link. bit.ly/44Efpfh

Best Live Jazz in London this week Financial Times ! Sun 12 Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra PizzaExpress Live – CD review here bit.ly/46PtvtT; Wed 15 Bill Frisell Islington Assembly Rooms. Cadogan Hall Review here on.ft.com/3IcPKxw; 15/6 Mike Stern Big Band Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

Elaine does it Best! Super Elaine Mitchener residency Cafe OTO; Reviewed in Financial Times. Here's the link. bit.ly/3WBIR3x

Best Live jazz in London this week! Sun 19 Mike Westbrook Band of Bands PizzaExpress Live; Mon 20 Bill Evans & Vansband Allstars Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club; Tues 21 Hannes Riepler Quartet East Side JC.

Best Live Jazz in London Part 2! Wed 22 Ed Richardson Big Band with Kurt Elling Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club /Tivon Pennicot Quartet Vortex Jazz Club; Fri/Sat 24/5 Ilhan Ersahin’s Istanbul Sessions Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

Satin and Silk! Great new album BEYOND THIS PLACE from Kenny Barron on Artwork Recordings. with Immanuel Wilkins and Steve Nelson on alto sax and vibes. Reviewed in FT Weekend. Here's the link bit.ly/3wMHRPC

Best Live Jazz in London this week Financial Times! Sun 26 May Sakoto Fuji’s Tokyo Trio Cafe OTO; Tues 28 Julian Costello Quartet East Side Jazz Club; Wed 29-31 Kamaal Williams and Friends Jazz Cafe; Thurs 30 Tim Garland Kings Place /Jasper Hoiby’s Three Elements Trio Vortex Jazz Club

Best London Jazz Part 2! FT Weekend. Fri 31 Myra Melford’s Splash Trio with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith Vortex Jazz Club; Fri & Sat, Josie James Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.

Looks like Kamaal Williams has been cancelled. Thanks for the heads up!

Best Live Jazz in London JUNE! FT Weekend; Sat 8 Binker Golding @606; Otherwise, its all down to Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. Mon 10 John Surman; Mon 17-20 Buddy Rich Big Band; Sat 22 Dan Kasimir Big Band; Sun 23 Bobby Watson; Mon 24-28 Monty Alexander; Sat 29 Black Art Jazz Ensemble

Splish/splash! Terrific Myra Melford Splash trio gig Vortex Jazz Club, ~Reviewed in Financial Times

Myra Melford Vortex in pictures courtesy Roger Thomas; Words from Financial Times bit.ly/3LaihaQ

Infinite Connections, City Swamp, and Central Park! Jihye Lee bit.ly/3zqULnj + Jake Long bit.ly/4cvlCgW & Wadada Leo Smith & Claudine Myers bit.ly/3XNUjty; All in FT Weekend

The spirit runs deep! Iladi, a great CD from South African saxophonist Linda Sikhakhane on Blue Note Records. Reviewed in FT Weekend. Here's the link bit.ly/4fqJB2C

Feel the Force! Wayne Shorter quartet's 2014 Stockholm concert now on Blue Note Records. CELEBRATION VOLUME 1 Reviewed in FT Weekend. Here's the link bit.ly/3AoboRn

Transylvanian Highs! Super Ban and Maneri CD TRANSYLVANIAN DANCE on ECM Records. Review in FT Weekend here's the link bit.ly/3z5IPHN

Best Live Jazz in London this week! Sat 7 Sat 7 John Etheridge/Vimala Rowe PizzaExpress Live; Wed 11 Elios Rojas & Cuban Jazz Quintet PizzaExpress Live; Sat 14 Trish Clowes Vortex Jazz Club

Best Live Jazz in London this week! Sat 14 Trish Clowes, Thurs 19 Robert Mitchell solo, Sat 21 Denys Baptiste, all Vortex Jazz Club Vortex Jazz Club; Thurs 21 Peter Bernstein Quartet PizzaExpress Live & Tues Oct 1 Jim Mullen The 606 Club.

To the Max! The MUSIC OF MAX ROACH, new album from Jazz at Kincoln Centre Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Reviewed in Financial Times . Here's the link bit.ly/47K45A5