• 1/ Mario Bakuna Band The Pheasantry, Chelsea Tuesday

Read a review of fab Brazilian guitarist Mario Bakuna over at the Lion and Lamb in Hoxton.

• 2/ Unharm Glad Cafe, Glasgow Tuesday

• 3/ Radhika de Saram Quartet featuring Ivo Neame The Lescar, Sheffield Wednesday

• 4/ Eddie Gripper trio Flute and Tankard, Cardiff Wed

GIG OF THE WEEK

• 5/ Chris Batchelor's Zoetic 1000 Trades, Birmingham Friday

2023's Telling the Tale proved a lot less raucous and far more difficult to sum up in a few words than trumpeter Chris Batchelor's other project Pigfoot - that band's Paul Clarvis is also to hand in an unusual quintet. Ask yourself how often do you find a viola in a small jazz quintet? Well, Margrit Hasler proves very soulful playing that instrument in a grouping to be heard in Brum along with Batchelor, guitarist John Parricelli, bassist Steve Watts and Clarvis. You find various styles dotted throughout, all hanging together very easily - the fine tunes are mainly Batchelor's - and from a jazz-rock atmosphere with gutsy Parricelli work on 'Huckster' to a chamber jazz feel on Edu Lobo/Vinicius de Moraes' 'Canto Triste' where Hasler is prominent there is even a passage that summons thoughts of a call to prayer on 'Corneta'. A melting pot of an album full of grace and charm - a welcome diversion from the norm.

• 6/ Shirley Smart and Robert Mitchell The Verdict, Brighton Friday

• 7/ Ian Shaw The Astor, Deal Saturday

• 8/ Louise Dodds duo Magy's Farm, Dechomet Saturday

• 9/ Linda Fredriksson Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Co. Kildare Saturday

• 10 Maki Namekawa Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham

For Bold Tendencies Maki Namekawa plays The Köln Concert - coughs up quite a night in prospect. But if late to the draw alas and lack, sob, already sold out.

Chris Batchelor's Zoetic, photographer unknown, play Birmingham on Friday night

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