Gershwin and Dorothy Parker: This week’s jazz highlights

One of the most exhilarating live acts on the Irish scene will also take to the stage

Linley Hamilton: Making Other Arrangements – Belfast trumpeter’s orchestral manoeuvres

Vince Mendoza/WDR: Homecoming – lush, brassy blasts of pure joy

Peter Erskine - Dr Um: Drummer’s readings of Weather Report

John Scofield: ‘Be honest, play what’s inside, steal from everyone you can’

Over dinner in downtown Manhattan, the guitarist talks about what he learned growing up in the heady days of New York’s jazz scene