The two main events in the forthcoming week are from Concert Jazz in Thame on Wednesday and the Spin on Thursday. At the Snooker Club in Thame, Concert Jazz this month features the Paul Booth quintet.

Booth is an up-and-coming sax player who hit the scene at a very young age, winning accolades before he had scrambled into his twenties. He recently appeared with Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance at the Spin as part of a national tour. He will be playing with guitarist Stuart McCallum, another young musician who has a highly individual sound and a burning technique. Go to www.jazzeddie.f2s.com for more information and tickets.

At the Spin, in the Wheatsheaf pub off Oxford's High Street on Thursday, the wonderfully articulate Mornington Lockett - now recognised as one of the most distinguished tenor players around - will present a tribute to Michael Brecker.

Brecker, who died in January, was a colossus in his own time. a man who produced some of the finest jazz albums in the last decade and who is recognised not just as a great player but also a fine composer and untiring supporter of the whole musical scene. Lockett is probably the best player in this country to lead an evening in homage to such a great man. Go to www.spinjazz.com for information and tickets.

On Sunday, there is another session with Mike Clapson and Dorothy Shaw at the Old Anchor Inn in Wharf Street, Abingdon, and on Tuesday the Nigel Price trio provide the music at the Big Bang Restaurant in Walton Street, Oxford. Also a reminder that Lizzie Newbury has her weekly spot at the Cape of Good Hope on the Plain on Sundays and the the music continues every Monday at the Chester Arms, in Chester Street, off Iffley Road, on Mondays.

Up in the big city, the remarkably versatile trumpeter Tom Arthurs is appearing with Huw Warren on keyboards at Pizza Express, in Dean Street, and later in the week Claire Martin is doing a three-day residency with her own band.