Spiritual Sligo hosts a gig for the UNESCO backed International Jazz Day at Lillie's tonight.

• hear top jazz In Munich

Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet + Lightville Unterfahrt, tonight

Rising Sun proved quite a revelation last year - pianist Shuteen Erdenebaatar, a musician hailing from Mongolia where she studied in Ulaanbaatar later championed by the Goethe Institute and excelling academically in Munich where she is based, joined on the album by soprano saxophonist Anton Mangold who also played flute on the record and by bassist Nils Kugelmann and drummer Valentin Renner. Tunes are strong, often quite bittersweet and poignant in nature, with hints of folklore from her homeland as on the flute line on 'An Answer From The Distant Hill'. Gentle and thoughtful it's all highly distinctive and speaks to the heart. Sold out - beg, steal or borrow to get in

• and in Paris

Theo Croker hits New Morning

• & over in Berlin

The Choir Invisible are at A-Trane

Charlotte Greve, Chris Tordini and Vinnie Sperrazza play from Town of Two Faces

• again back to la belle France and Paris

Baptiste Herbin Quartet play Sunset

A Paris tribute to English alto sax great Peter King for International Jazz Day

• across England, Scotland and Wales

Paul Jordanous All Stars at the Summertown Wine Bar, Oxford

Helena Kay is at The Rum Shack in Glasgow

Saxist Helena Kay first on our rader with Moon Palace playing Golden Sands and new material featuring pianist Peter Johnstone, the SNJO bassist Calum Gourlay and Scots drum icon Alyn Cosker.

The Jakub Klimiuk Quintet are at the Flute and Tankard in Cardiff

Polar Bear legend Mark Lockheart guested on two tracks of (Un)balanced the startlingly accomplished newcomer electric guitarist Jakub Klimiuk's album. Klimiuk is capable of a jazz-rock swagger landing in a Phil Robson type of sound and very convincing it is too. Polish born, from Gdańsk, the spiritual home of Solidarity, Klimiuk studied at the Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in the Baltic seaport and graduated from London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama last year. On the album 'Study 2' gives us a chance to hear a little fragment of sublimated, carefully hinted at only but essentially veering towards Jason Moran-like stride piano by way of James P. Johnson from Cody Moss. Highlights also include bassist Kinzan (aka Harry Pearce)'s subtle accompaniment on the ballad 'Dualism' and his veritably dancing comping to Moss' engaged piano line on 'Wait.'

The Clark Tracey Quintet are at The Globe, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Drummer-leader Clark Tracey - son of UK piano icon the Monk and Ellington influenced Stan - plays Newcastle with his band of trombonist Rory Ingham, saxist Nadim Teimoori, pianist Bruce Boardman and bassist Andrew Cleyndert. Sold out

And the Shirley Smart Trio are at the Watermill in Dorking

• and across the sea to Ireland

The pick of the action is from the Felip Carbonell Rumba Experience and guests who into the west are at Lillie's in Sligo town this side of nightfall.

Sligo photo: marlbank. Shuteen photo: Motéma.

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