• Famoudou Don Moye Trio Porgy & Bess, Vienna Monday 25 March

Art Ensemble of Chicago legend

• Mélissa Acchiardi + Lê Quan Ninh + Otomo Yoshihide/Émilie Skrijelj/Tom Malmendier Le Périscope, Lyon Tuesday 26 Mar

• Vincent Herring Soul Chemistru feat. Erena Terakubo Blue Note, Milan Wednesday 27 Mar

• Shane Hennessy, Phil Robson Trio, Mark Bolton Band Arthur's, Dublin Wed 27 Mar

• Julia Hülsmann Quartet A-Trane, Berlin Thursday 28 Mar

• Brandee Younger Trio Porgy & Bess, Vienna Thurs 28 Mar

• Lucia Cadotsch and Aki Bimhuis, Amsterdam Thurs 28 Mar

Berlin based Swiss experimental art-jazz singer Lucia Cadotsch on Aki released last year with the UK piano trio of pianist Kit Downes, bassist Phil Donkin and drummer James Maddren - it's pianist Jozef Dumoulin billed for the Amsterdam date - was an album that also featured Heartcore label boss US guitar icon Kurt Rosenwinkel on the tracks 'Bitter Long Lying Leisure' and 'Medusa's Champagne'. Most of the songs on an album that celebrates many facets of iconic female strength and role model empowerment were Cadotsch and Downes co-writes while Donkin wrote the track 'Naked and Numb' sequenced right at the end of these succinct and highly intoxicating songs. The album also featured a reimagination of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill murder ballad 'Ballad of the Drowned Girl' (in German 'Ballade Vom Ertrunkenen Mädchen'). Brecht was inspired to write by the murder of the Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg during the suppression of the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin in January 1919 and known in a classic low toned - by then far from soubrette - version from the mid-1950s by the Vienna born icon of the 20th century - Lotte Lenya (1898-1981).

• Gigi McFarlane Band Jamboree, Barcelona Thurs 28 Mar

• Julien Lourau Sunside, Paris Friday 29 Mar Good Friday

• Tony Lakatos, Perico Sambeat, Alex Sipiagin, Yakov Okun, Paul Kleber, Tobias Backhaus ZigZag, Berlin Fri 29 Mar Good Friday

• Fred Nardin “All star” 4tet feat. Max Ionata Le duc des Lombards, Paris Fri 29 Mar Good Friday and Easter Saturday 30 Mar

• Carmen Souza Blue Note, Milan Easter Sat 30 Mar

• Brandee Younger Moods, Zurich Easter Sat 30 Mar

Harpist Brandee Younger followed in the footsteps of Alice Coltrane and John Coltrane by signing to Impulse! She has become one of the biggest stars of jazz harp emanating from the USA today.

• Benjamin Henocq's Jam Le Baiser salé, Paris Sunday 31 Mar Easter Sunday

Brandee Younger pictured (photo: Erin Patrice O'Brien), plays Vienna on Thursday the 28th and Moods, Zurich on Saturday the 30th