The jazz gig of the week is Thursday's Fringe Club appearance by Norwegian quintet Motif.
The group, who are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, comprise five musicians who have made their mark individually in European and Scandinavian jazz.
Trumpeter Mathias Eick has been ubiquitous lately, having emerged on sessions for the ECM label, playing with Chick Corea and Pat Metheny, and as a member of Jaga Jazzist, who created a stir in 2002 when they won album of the year at the BBC Jazz Awards for A Livingroom Hush.
His debut album as a leader, The Door has been nominated for this year's Spellemannprisen, the Norwegian Grammys, and he turns up again on an enjoyable new CD by bassist Lars Danielsson called Tarantella on the ACT label.
The tarantella is a traditional dance of Italian origin, but has acquired strong Norwegian associations from its use as a dramatic device in Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play, A Doll's House.
Other titles on the album allude to dance, including Ballet and Ballerina, and it is easy to imagine many of the tunes providing inspiration for a choreographer.
Danielsson is a Swedish bassist and cellist who has built an international reputation playing with saxophonists Dave Liebman and Charles Lloyd, guitarists John Scofield, John Abercrombie and Mike Stern, and drummers Billy Hart and Terri Lyne Carrington, among others. He is also a hyperactive record producer.