Dave Douglas

The brilliant US trumpeter is touring with the traditional jazz trio of piano bass and drums – except the pianist is replaced by DJ Shigeto on turntables.

Soundprints is a reference to the saxophonist Wayne Shorter's famous theme Footprints.

Their latest joint project the Sound Prints quintet celebrates the devious logic and collaborative freedoms of saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter.

The toughest part of the slippery art of teaching jazz, according to the John Zorn sideman, prolific composer and virtuoso trumpeter Dave Douglas, is "How do I teach you to be you?" The New Yorker has spent four days as an artist in residence with Royal Academy of Music jazz students, successfully addressing

As usual, the London jazz festival has reaffirmed jazz's identity as an open music-making attitude, not a collection of styles – nowhere more so than in former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas's show, which improvised a live soundtrack to a glimmering vintage Dracula movie in a darkened QEH. Lucas was