• Mark Turner Quartet Stadtgarten, Cologne Monday 1 April

The Temporary Kings Iversonian Mark Turner reigns on tour again this month with his quartet. Also playing The Shed, Reims en Champagne on Tuesday and continuing to the Blue Note in Milan on Wednesday night the American's Return From the Stars was without fear of exaggeration a joy in 2022 - one of the most outstanding albums of that year and Turner's finest album in a distinguished discography. What energy in the chasing momentum developed with trumpeter Jason Palmer there is. And present and correct too is the sheer gravity developed between them in the rapport across the rhythm section. A terrific example of how acoustic jazz can still be relevant in an age when electronic textures often call the shots.

• Vilkka Wahl: Kaihō feat. Jure Pukl and Kari Ikonen, Porgy & Bess, Vienna Mon 1 Apr

• Julieta Eugenio Trio Le duc des Lombards, Paris Tuesday 2 Apr

We liked Argentinian tenor saxophonist Julieta Eugenio's 2022 release Jump that had drummer Jonathan Barber on it - definitely a less-is-more sort of record the sound proved very natural. A track like 'Flamingo' developed out of so little with bassist and drummer doing so much to kindle the beat and a deft rhythmic slant that runs in parallel behind the sax line. A new name to many it seems almost compulsory to get to know Eugenio as word of mouth spreads.

• Total Eclipse feat. Joe Chambers Unterfahrt, Munich Tues 2 Apr

As you'd probably expect and certainly won't be disappointed to realise after a few listens to recent Joe Chambers on Blue Note a sense of occasion. Chambers appears on such seminal records as Chick Corea's Tones For Joan's Bones and Wayne Shorter's Adam’s Apple. Chambers' vibes-playing on Samba de Maracatu vies to steal the show. Playing Unterfahrt with saxist Johannes Enders, pianist/vibist Titian Jost, pianist Sam Hylton, bassist Marc Abrams, percussionist Biboul Darouiche and drummer Matthias Gmelin - walk with the spirits, talk with the spirits.

• Peter Horsfall Le duc des Lombards, Paris Wednesday 3 Apr

Tradster Pete(r), erstwhile Kansas Smitty's scene toe tapper, is a Britjazz trumpeter who also sings. The trad from the Basin Street Brawler supplemented a formidable mastery of his instrument (we all have our views as to influence but pace King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, possibly Harry James a bit too are our best hunches doing a bit of idle sleuthing) with vocals on an EP of four songs back in 2016. The vocals land in an Ivor Novello sort of sound. While the songs were Horsfall’s he has also collaborated on ‘Cupid’s Arrows and Bow,' with the great cabaret singer Barb Jungr. Seek erudite but unpretentious Oxonian Pete in Paris doing the Duc next week.

• Amaro Freitas Moods, Zurich Thurs 4 Apr

• Nitai Hershkovits Bimhuis, Amsterdam Thurs 4 Apr

2023's Call on the Old Wise proved a soothing solo piano recording that tugged at the heart strings and journeys deeper the more you listen. Recorded in a Lugano studio in 2022 by the Israeli Nitai Hershkovits known for his work with Oded Tzur, the album is stocked with improvised compositions of the pianist's and so complete and intact they prove too. You'll also find a concise rendering of Duke Ellington's 'Single Petal of a Rose' in the mix. Hershkovits here will just as easily appeal to classical as jazz fans - there are no boundaries in his approach.

• Corto.Alto Moods, Zurich Fri 5 Apr

• Sarah Jane Morris & the Gianni Vancini Band Blue Note, Milan Fri 5 Apr

The Sisterhood is a must from the 'Don't Leave Me This Way' Communard in a stunning series of co-writes with Tony Rémy.

• Linley Hamilton, Scott Flanigan, Cormac O' Brien, Shane O’Donovan, Colm O’Hara, Daniel Rorke Arthur's, Dublin Saturday 6 April

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• Björn Ingelstam The Music Village, Brussels Sat 6 Apr

• Trio Tapestry: Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi Bimhuis, Amsterdam Sun 7 Apr

Our Daily Bread from the trio last year was their best to date and the bar is set high. A coup for the Bimhuis.

“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music… And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”

– Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843)

Each Trio Tapestry album has journeyed into the profound and each inhabits human condition territory - that deep anguish Kierkegaard expressed in his great work - we arrive at given the scale of the achievement when the music becomes a vessel to understanding. It certainly does given the mood, feeling and abstract meaning in the layering of deep philosophical complexion. You cannot but believe what these three play. About freedom of expression couched in a language which isn't strung together from someone else's vision but one that fundamentally speaks their truth and which can be absorbed by any listener willing to surrender to their sound.

The freedom is in the lack (or rather the gain derived by the absence) of the beat of a bass instrument but it's not even that. The freeness is in the philosophy and the album's ferocious spirituality. What does freedom mean - and how long is a piece of string? Here's what we think it means listening to Joe Lovano on tenor saxophone and tarogato; Marilyn Crispell on piano and Carmen Castaldi on drums, gong, temple bells, given the deeply existential as much as spiritual overtones of the majesty of the playing and that's why we turn to the writings of proto-existentialist Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) where the ''dizziness of freedom'' is like vertigo.

So a blissful benign blow your mind out of body experience is on the cards here - Lo and behold the tenor master becomes more conversational on 'Le Petit Opportun' but he doesn't solo in a conventional sense even here because of Crispell's imagistic harmonies and the great Braxtonian pianist's beyond-the-bar-line supra-legato conception that is as oblique as it is vital. It isn't the tunes here - it's the feeling, the aura, the sense of serenity. And because it isn't at all new agey and flakey there is a frightening sense of the abyss inherent in what is obviously a substantial piece of art but not three musicians against nature these instead seemingly at one with it and the fact that we are all tiny specks within an unknowable vastness emerges. The tribute to Charlie Haden is a thing of beauty but just about every one of these 8 tracks is as well. Change the way you think about pretty much anything you know about jazz by listening to Our Daily Bread deeply and often.

Adam's Apple icon Joe Chambers pictured: photo Blue Note plays Munich on Tuesday night