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Bill Frisell/ Overtone Quartet/ Marcus Miller, London Jazz Festival

Orchestral resources wound round an American guitarist, a heavyweight band-of-equals showed their collective spirit, and a bassist revisited Miles Davis’s last great album, writes Mike Hobart

Terry Clarke: It’s About Time

A-list drummer’s first release under his own name

Richard Galliano: Paris Concert

Live recording of a solo performance

Sonny Rollins/John Scofield, London

Mike Hobart hears Sonny Rollins spin grandiose structures from the simplest materials in his headlining concert at the London Jazz Festival

Gwilym Simcock: Blues Vignette

A double CD that blends classical roots with jazz references

Jimmy Cobb: Jazz in the Key of Blue

Showtune romances set at medium tempo

The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival

The festival debut of an all-star collective

Elton Dean’s Ninesense: Happy Daze/Oh for the Edge

A double album from the late saxophonist of Soft Machine

Kit Downes Trio: Golden

Debut album turns to the conventional acoustic piano trio

Keith Jarrett: Paris/London (Testament)

Three CDs from through-improvised, solo piano concerts

Michael Janisch: Purpose Built

Basil Hodge: Sound Reasoning

Gerald Clayton: Two Shade

Bern, Brody & Rodach: Triophilia

Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream

Terence Blanchard: Choices

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