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Exclusive Content Lee Mergner celebrates the reopening of New York jazz clubs with a weeklong series of live reviews, and Alan Nahigian presents a gallery of images from a recent live tribute to Wayne Shorter at the River to River Festival, featuring Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington. Plus album and book reviews, obituaries, and much more. JT News Germany’s MPS Records, which issued jazz records from 1968 to 1983 and had a reputation for high-quality recordings, is reissuing key catalog items on CD and limited-edition vinyl. Titles include Ella Fitzgerald’s Sunshine of Your Love (1969); Freddie Hubbard’s The Hub of Hubbard (1970); the Oscar Peterson Trio/Voices Unlimited’s In Tune (1971); Bill Evans’ Symbiosis (1974); and Joe Henderson’s Mirror Mirror (1980). Audio & Video Check out violinist Curtis Stewart’s solo take on Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple…