A Long-Awaited, Darkly Brilliant Gem of a Debut Album From Ben Holmes’ Naked Lore

Over the past couple of years, trumpeter Ben Holmes‘ Naked Lore trio became one of the most consistently edgy, entertaining bands in the Barbes scene. Considering how many dozens of other great artists rotate through Brooklyn’s best (and currently shuttered) music venue, that’s a major achievement.

But Holmes has been a mainstay, playing everything from klezmer to ska there since the zeros, and guitarist Brad Shepik and multi-percussionist Shane Shanahan have long resumes in jazz that slinks toward the Middle East. With this group, the goal is to reinvent old klezmer themes and introduce new ones. If you’re a fan of old Jewish folk tunes from across the diaspora, you’ll hear a lot of familiar minor-key riffs here, beamed down to a completely new planet. Their debut album is streaming at Bandcamp.

They open the album with a diptych, Invocation 1/Snake Money, an airy, spacious, allusively chromatic trumpet solo leading into a suspensefully pulsing, flamenco-tinged groove. From there Shepik’s fleet-fingered flurries and Shanahan’s snakecharmer beats underpin the bandleader’s lively, spacious, klezmer-infused phrasing. Ibrahim Maalouf’s most upbeat work comes to mind.

The second track is titled 543, a Smile, and Bullshit, reflecting Holmes wry stage presence as well as the whole group’s immersion in Balkan music. This one has a tricky groove that seems Macedonian, deliciously biting upper-register chords from Shepik, trumpet floating and trilling uneasily overhead..

Shepik plays clanging, overtone-laden Portuguese twelve-string guitar in the steady, jauntily strolling, tantalizingly gorgeous Swamplands Chusidl and sticks with it in the hypnotically circling Interlude on Avenue J, a throwback to the more postbop jazz-inflected style Holmes mined on his Balkan jazz record Gold Dust.

Another crystalline, unsettled trumpet taqsim, Invocation II leaps and bounds, introducing The Dust of Unremembering; Shepik runs a moody acoustic guitar loop as Shanahan fires off machinegunning riffs and Holmes hangs low and ominous, a stormcloud above all the scampering.

The Sunbeast Emerges, with its moody bolero tinges, is another killer track: it sounds like a Serbian take what could be a catchy, incisive Michael Winograd tune, no surprise considering how much time Holmes has spent in the clarinetist’s band. Shepik’s spiraling, spine-tingling solo is one of the album’s high points.

Two Oh No’s and an Oh! no No! is not a Yoko Ono paraphrase: it’s a dusky, Indian-flavored theme built around a Shepik chromatic loop, Holmes moodily choosing his spots over Shanahan’s clip-clop attack, the guitarist adding a wickedly Middle Eastern solo.

First We Were Sad, Then We Danced is a pretty self-explanatory hora, a high-voltage concert favorite: the trio add smoldering flamenco flavor and then an absolutely surreal new wave rock pulse. They wind up the album with the unselfconsciously poignant waltz All Together, a subtle mix of klezmer, pastoral American jazz and the Balkans.

All of these guys have done great work over the years but this is a high point for everybody in the band. No wonder they’ve stuck together so long. If it makes sense to put up a best albums of 2020 page at the end of the year – if New York still exists at the end of the year, if we all exist – this will be on it.

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for February 2020

At this point all official NYC concerts are cancelled   Be well and stay home. 

The Greenwich Village Orchestra have cancelled their March 15 concert

The Owl concerts are cancelled through March 21

Miller Theatre events are cancelled through March 23

Scandinavia House events are cancelled through March 25

Flushing Town Hall concerts are cancelled through March 28.

Juilliard events are cancelled through through March 29

The Shed and Morgan Library events are cancelled through March 30

Concerts at Bowery Ballroom, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the NY Philharmonic, Irish Arts Center, NY Opera Center,  Mercury Lounge, Bric Arts, CUNY’s Elebash Hall, Manhattan School of Music, National Sawdust, St. Thomas Church, People’s Symphony Series and all Columbia University concerts are cancelled through March 31

Symphony Space events are cancelled through April 1

The Kitchen, Green Space, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Metropolitan Museum of Art events are cancelled through April 3

Merkin Concert Hall events are cancelled through April 7

Baruch College Auditorium events are cancelled through April 8.

NJPAC in Newark is closed through April 13.

Events at the New School and the Stone are cancelled thorugh April 15.

The Americas Society, Arete Gallery, Asia Society, Barbes, Jazz Standard, Pioneer Works and People’s Voice Cafe events are cancelled until further notice

If you’re leaving your hood, don’t get stuck waiting for a train that never comes, make sure you check the MTA delays and out-of-service page for service cancellations and malfunctions, considering how unreliable the subway is at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you discovered here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar:

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! This winter’s agenda is Childhood Classics: A series of three evenings featuring the music we were forced to play – music composed expressly for children, Bach to Kurtag, like it or not, and conversation about that experience, about the piano, and about ongoing musical growth…4 PM on February 16, and March 15, sug don, email for details/address

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of tropical bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.. Brain Cloud are also playing their 10th anniversary show on Nov 22 at 9 PM at the Jalopy for $20

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $35 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays starting at 9:30 PM Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play two sets at Union Pool. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically woke, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the usual lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests. Sizzling guitarist Binky Griptite – Sharon Jones’ lead player – is also often there.

Tuesdays at 9 PM, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (check the club calendar), $10 cover.

Wednesdays at 9ish the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Most Thursdays at 8:30, the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays at 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Saturdays in March, 6 PM Big Lazy  noir guitar legend Steve Ulrich plays with a rotating cast of suspects at Barbes. Evil horn arrangements! Creepy guitar jams! Heaven for fans of dark sounds.

Sundays in March, 1 PM  brilliant, fearlessly political B3 organist Greg Lewis plays Monk tunes at Bar Lunatico. He’s also there with Brianna Thomas and the Juke Joint Jelis on the 19th

Most Sundays at 5:15 PM starting in late September, a free recital on the amazing, powerful, dynamic new organ at St. Thomas Church at 5th Ave and 53rd St. featuring some of the world’s greatest organists. The space is magnificent and the music usually is too. Right now the church fathers are programming pretty much everybody who used to work here and play the mighty old Aeolian-Skinner organ that finally had to be replaced. Check the concert calendar for details.

Sundays in March at 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of groups at the Bar Next Door

Sundays in March,, 8/11 PM the fearlessly relevant, toweringly intense Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, at Birdland, $30 at the bar

Sundays at 9:30 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel leads his band at Barbes – check the club calendar just to make sure.

3/1, 4 PM avant garde klezmer with pyrotechnic clarinetist David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg’s Breath + Hammer at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

3/1, 7 PM singer Jennifer Walshe and the Mivos Quartet play her surreal, dystopic soundtrack to an unfinished film by reclusive artist Caoimhín Breathnach, contemplating the intrusion of datamining and surveillance in our most private moments at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

3/1, 8ish the hauntingly improvisational Muhr/Hashimoto/Mattrey Trio: Luisa Muhr – voice, movement; Sae Hashimoto – vibraphone; Jonna Mattrey – viola followed by pianist Santiago Liebson leading his trio at the Owl

3/1, 8 PM  perennially tuneful, pensively lyrical Americana janglerocker Mike Ferrio of Tandy and Good Luck Mountain at 11th St. Bar

3/1. 10ish izzling electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at the Treehouse at 2A

3/2, 7ish noir-inspired honkytonk crooner Sean Kershaw at Cowgirl Seahorse

3/2, 7 PM trombonist/composer Ryan Keberle and lyrical French pianist Frank Woeste play the album release show fortheir new one Reverso at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex,

3/2, 9:30ish Gato Loco bass saxophone monster Stefan Zeniuk’s new slightly less crazy band Green Mambo – a Perez Prado tribute – at Barbes

3/2, 10 PM intense, cinematic, politically fearless jazz flutist Elsa Nilsson and band at LIC Bar

3/3, 6 PM violiist Johnna Wu plays works by Bartok and Luciano Berio at Elebash Hall at CUNY, free

3/3, 7 PM intense Balkan chanteuse and Dolunay frontwoman Jenny Luna‘s other haunting, traditional Turkish band Seyyah followed at 9:30 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs and Ellington reinventors Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

3/3, 7:30 PM pianist Adam Kośmieja plays a rare program of works by contemporary Polish composers K. Serocki, Sikorski, Kornowicz, and Zubel at Myers Recital Hall at Manhattan School of Music, free

3/3, 7:30 PM the NYC debut of Danish chamber ensemble the Kegelstatt Trio playing a program TBA at Flushing Town Hall, free. They’re also at Scandinavia House on 3/5 at 7 for free

3/3-7 7:30 PM the Tyshawn Sorey Sextet with Sasha Berliner on vibes at the Jazz Gallery, $25

3/3. 8 PM ferociously dynamic, tuneful,female-fronted power trio Castle Black at Berlin, $tba

3/3-7, 8:30 PM purposeful guitarist/Monk reinventor Miles Okazaki leads a series of bands at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the Friday night quartet show wih ) Steve Cardenas (guitar) Kate Gentile (drums) Jerome Harris (bass

3/3. 8 PM Asian Sound Revolution, the new supergroup of gaegeum player Jin Hi Kim, pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen, and pioneering, gamelanesque drummer/composer Susie Ibarra. at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

3/3. 8:30 PM irrepressible, transgressively funny postbop saxophonist Jon Irabago with Peter Brendler on bass and Jimmy MacBride on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12 at Elebash Hall at CUNY

3/3, 9 PM wickedly torchy noir songwriterJ ulia Haltigan at 11th St Bar

3/3, 9 PM otherworldly French-Algerian singer Ourida with her combo at Bar Lunatico

3/3 9:30 PM alto saxophonist Caroline Davis leads a quintet at Seeds

3/3, 10 PM rising star trumpeterAdam O’Farrill‘s colorful, cinematic Stranger Days Quartet at 55 Bar

3/3, 10 PM epically ferocious art-rock jamband Planta at Terraza 7, $10

3/4, 1 PM the Elysian String Quartet play a program tba at the Greene Space, free, rsvp req

3/4. 6:30 PM the adventurous Lisa Hoppe on bass with Chris Williams on trumpet and Santiago Gibson on drums at the Bar Next Door,free

3/4. 7 PM violinist Ludovica Burtone‘s Little Sparks followed by singer Sofia Kriger‘s Solos de Ave quartet at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

3/4, 7:30 PM pianist Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń plays an all Chopin program at Myers Recital Hall at Manhattan School of Music, free

3/4. 7;30 PM haunting, kinetic, hypnotic Yemeni jazz sounds with pianist Tarek Yamani and his trio at Joe’s Pub, $15 adv tix rec

3/4, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10.

3/4, 8 PM a wild brass band triplebill: Hot Hand Band, Brass Monkeys, and Dingonek Street Band playing second line, Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

3/4, 8 PM group improvisations: pianist Rema Hasumi with Henry Fraser (bass); Raf Vertessen (drums) and at 9 Kazuki Yamanaka (alto saxophone); Santiago Leibson (piano); Carmen Rothwell (bass) Billy Mintz (drums) at Scholes St Studios, $20

3/4. 9 PM 20s hot swing jazz revivalists Cait and the Critters at Radegast Hall

3/4, 10 PM drony Irish gothic: singer Katie Kim and the more ornate Lankum at the Mercury, $20

3/5, 1 PM pianist Jessica Xylina Osborne plays works by Lutoslawski, Britten, Saint-Saens/E. Ysaÿe, Schönberg, and Schubert.at Elebash Hall at CUNY, free

3/5, 6:30 PM a free screening of the awesome 1969 Aretha Franklin gospel concert film Amazing Grade at NJPAC in Newark

3/5, 7 PM poignant, nuanced jazz singerAmy Cervini leads her trio at 55 Bar

3/5, 7:30/9:30 PM sharp latin jazz drummer/composer Dafnis Prieto leads his killer sextet with Peter Apfelbaum on sax at the Jazz Standard, $30

3/5, 7:30 PM, repeating 3/7 at 8 and 3/10 at 7:30 PMs Louis Langrée conducts the NY Philharmonic in French masterworks. Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Met Opera star Isabel Leonard (Marnie) sings Ravel’s exotic song cycle Shéhérazade plus, Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy, expensive, $38 tix avail

3/5, 7:30 PM the Argus Quartet play a program tba at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/5, 8 PM the Orchestra of St. Luke”s play a lavish, all-Beethoven program: Leonore Overture No. 2; Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), Op. 112; the Choral Fantasy, Op. 80; Mass in C Major, Op. 86 at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $30 seats avail, wow

3/5. 8 PM International Contemporary Ensemble play a “composer portrait” of Dai Fujikura at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

3/5, 8 PM charismatic, gruff-voiced Jewish folksinger Ilya Shneyveys’ “Electrocord” w/Max Kutner at Town & Village Synagogue, Social Hall, 334 East 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

3/5. 8 PM explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas, downtown avant rock vets God Is My Co-Pilot and haphazard dark punkish female-fronted band Cruel Children at Niagara, Ave A/8th St

3/5, 8 PM brilliantly eclectic Ameriana guitarist Jason Loughlin‘s String Gliders play western swing followed at 10 by dynamic, subtle all-female klezmer band Tsibele at Barbes

3/5, 8:30ish psychedelic supergroup the Elgin Marbles feat. members of Love Camp 7, Dervisi and Peter Stampfel’s jug band at Troost

3/5, 8:30 PM rapturous Indian carnatic singer Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik with the Women’s Raga Massive at the Jalopy, $15

3/5. 9 PM Soul Gnawa – the psychedelic/downtempo project from Innov Gnawa‘s Samir Langus and guitarist Daniel Freedman – at Bar Lunatico

3/5, 9 PM darkly psychedelic Dominican band Jobo at Shrine

3/5, 9 PM uneasily eclectic, shapeshifting art-rock/chamber-pop/Americana band Ellen Siberian Tiger at Footlight Bar $10

3/5, 10 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar,Saul Rubin leads his Zebtet at the Fat Cat

3/6, 5:30 PM intense, brilliantly relevant oldtime gospel/Africa Africana music maven Vienna Carroll at the American Folk Art Museum

3/6, 7 PM pyrotechnic vocalist Roopa Mahadevan‘s adventurous Indian avant garde project Roopa in Flux at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

3/6, 7 PM indie classical group Blackbox Ensemble play new works by Bethany Younge, Fjola Evans, George Lewis and others at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

3/6, 7 PM otherworldly, atmospheric Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo and band at Elebash Hall at CUNY, $25

3/6 ,7:30 PM Ewa Pobłocka plays piano works by Bach and Chopin at Mikowsky Recital Hall at Manhattan School of Music, free

3/6, 8 PM playfully lyrical, fearlessly political superduo Kill Henry Sugar– guitar/banjo mastermind Erik Della Penna and drummer Dean Sharenow – followed at 10 by Pangari & the Socialites playing classic ska and rocksteady– most of it from the 60s Skatalites catalog –at Barbes

3/6-7, 8 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play a potent, politically relevant contemporary program: Tim Kiah: Truth unto the People (world premiere); Mike Boyman: Concerto for Two Horns and Wind Ensemble (world premiere) with Jess Santiago and Emily Wong, horns; Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transfiguration; Gabriela Lena Frank: Elegia Andina; Joan Tower: Made in America at at St. Paul’s Church, 315 W 22nd St., $20 sugg don

3/6, 8 PM Departure Duo play repertoire written especially for soprano and double bass; string madness with violinist Marina Kifferstein + cellist Meaghan Burke at Scholes St Studios, $15

3/6, 8 PM the NYC debuts of music and performance outlet Porest and feminist noise reggaeton duo Las Sucias, relating “how sounds change in the diaspora: how they tether to their environment, accumulate, synthesize, and adapt at each location, use composition and improvisation to address origin, inherency, and borders and obfuscate the “othering” that often surrounds their work,” at Issue Project Room, $15

3/6. 9 PM ubiquitous,moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly at the small room at the Rockwood

3/6, 9 PM playfully upbeat original swing jazz crew the Doggy Cats at Sunny’s

3/7, 11:30 AM (in the morning) the Nightingale Farm – Mary Spencer Knapp as narrator and singer, Teagan Taylor on trumpet & vocals, Doug Berns on bass and vocals, Sean Salant on guitar, and Ethan Meyer on percussion.- present their original adaptations of the classic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer plus Wilhelmina Harper’s “The Gunniwolf.” These stories follow a family singalong. At Greenlight Bookstore: 632 Flatbush Ave, Ft. Greene, free for kids of all ages

3/7, 4 PM cinematic, psychedelic quirk-pop keyboardist Michael Hearst presents “Curious, Unusual and Extraordinary” songs from his many bands followed by 6 PM by Big Lazy noir guitar mastermind Steve Ulrich, at 8 by eclectic, electric, guitarishly excellent C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

3/7, 6 PM thoughtful, imaginative saxophonist Peyton Pleninger‘s Biotonic at Shrine

3/7, 7 PM exhilarating all-female Arabic/Iranian/Jewish band Divahn at Joe’s Pub, $20 adv rix rec

3/7, 7:30 PM the Jack Quartet play the album release show for their new one with works by Sky Macklay, Cenk Ergün and Oscar Bianchi at the fourth floor auditorium at the New School, 55 W 13th St., res req

3/7. 8 PM women songwriters’ night at the People’s Voice Cafe: sprightly, pensive Pat Lamanna, ex-Red Molly multi-instrumentalist Carolann Solebello,, and the politically, historically astute Sharleen Leahey at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

3/7, 8 PM trippy, dubby roots reggae and ska sounds with Avo & Skalopy at the Jalopy Tavern

3/7, 8 PM hauntingly resonant clarinetist/saxophonist Anat Cohen and her tropical Quartetinho at the Miller Theatre, $25 tix avail

3/7, 8 PM guitarist Tal Yahalom and Quintet & poignantly lyrical, eclectic pianist Marta Sanchez with her quintet at Scholes St Studios, $10

3/7, 8 PM MWE play orchestral works by Charles Ives, Julie Giroux, John Mackey, Frank Ticheli and David R. Holsinger at the DiMenna Center, $12

3/7, 8 PM ten-piece country/carnivalesque/acoustic rock powerhouse M Shanghai String Band at theJalopy, $!0

3/7, 8 PM darkly lyrical psychedelic pop songwriter Jennifer Hall at Petes. The following night, 3/8 at 8 PM she’s at the small room at the Rockwood

3/7, 9 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 PM with the deliciously creepy, Balkan-tinged  Plato Zorba followed by Link Wray cover band the Wraycyclers, at 11 Atomic Mosquitos spinoff Killers From Space and at midnight majestic, darkly cinematic surf instrumentalists the TarantinosNYC

3/7, 9ish linky, darkly psychedelic instrumentalists the Ghost Funk Orchestra at Out Wicked Lady, $10

3/7, 9 PM powerpop band Giftshop– the missing link between Blondie and the Distillers – at the Parkside

3/7, 10ish sludgy, catchy metal band Vesssel of Light at Blackthorn 51, $15

3/8. noon mostly-female, kinetic klezmer/cumbia/cinematic jamband Isle of Klezbos at City Vineyard for brunch, $10, no niminums, kids 12 and under free!

3/8, 2 PM violinist Augustin Hadelich and pianist Orion Weiss play works by Debussy,Beethoven, Ysaye, Brahms, John Adams and more at the Town Hall, $17

3/8, 2 PM pianist Olga Kern and tenor Nick Phan sing works by French composer Nadia Boulanger, singer Lucy Dhegrae and the Vuillaume Trio perform a piano trio by Amy Beach at the Greene Space, $20

3/8. 4 PM oldschool-style high plains C&W singer Hope Debates & North 40 at Skinny Dennis

3/8. 5 PM viola virtuoso/film composer Ljova with soaring, riveting klezmer singer Inna Barmash and accordion monster Patrick Farrell at Bar Thalia adjacent to Symphony Space, free

3/8, 5 PM, repeating 3/18 at 6:30 Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin; Yelena Grinberg, piano play a marathon program of Beethoven sonatas at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St.,deets here.They repeat with a similar but different program on 3/22 at 5 and then 3/26 at 7

3/8, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

3/8, 6 PM Darren Johnston on trumpet / Peter Hess on woodwinds / Adam Dotson on flugabone followed at 8 by oudist Tom Chess and bassist Zach Swanson at Downtown Music Gallery

3/8, 7 PM roots reggae group the Far East at Pioneer works, free

3/8, 7 PM allstar Indian music collective the Women’s Raga Massive and “members of the all-women STARR Ensemble — whose music blends Indian classical, jazz, Western classical, and bluegrass — present Lakshmi Shankar: A Musical Evolution in One Night, a multimedia tribute to the Hindustani singer who helped bring Indian music to the West,” at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

3/8, 7 PM soaring, politically relevant, brilliantly purposeful alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon leads his “Berklee Quintet” at Birdland, $20 at the bar

3/8, 7 PM sci-fi surf band Future Relics followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

3/8, 7 PM gritty downtown rocker Diane Gentile, dark blues/folk noir/oldschool soul songwriter Kelley Swindall and well-liked, fearlessly political LES soul-rock songwriter/chanteuse Dina Regine at 11th St Bar

3/9, 6 PM the Greenpoint Songwriters Exchange – a diverse bunch playing everything from folk noir to Costelloesque, literary rock to Indian ragas and oldschool soul – at Pete’s

3/9, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads his group from behind the Rhodes at 55 Bar

3/9, 8 PM saxophonist Aaron Burnett plays a duo set with the always adventurous drummer Tyshawn Sorey at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

3/9, 10ish the NYC Gaita Club – a Bulla en el Barrio spinoff – play rustically pounding Afro-Colombian trance-dance music at Barbes

3/10, 8 PM chamber orchestra Metropolis Ensemble, appropriately enough plays Ricardo Romaneiro’s live score to the Fritz Lang dystopic silent classic Metropolis at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

3/10, 7 PM countertenor Labros Filippou leads his Greek rembetiko band followed at 9:30 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs and Ellington reinventors Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

3/10, 7 PM the Vienna Yiddish Duo at the Austrian Cultural Center free w rsvp

3/10, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian at 55 Bar

3/10, 7 PM eclectic, cinematic keyboardist Frank LoCrasto and psychedelic latin soul tinged band Garcia Peoples at Union Pool, free

3/10. 7:30 PM cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Michael Brown play works by Ginastera, Grieg, Sibelius, Glière, and Michael Brown, and Bulgarian folk tunes at the Baruch College Auditorium, $36 BUT buy one get one free with code BOGO

3/10, 8 PM Soul Gnawa – the psychedelic/downtempo project from Innov Gnawa‘s Samir Langus and guitarist Daniel Freedman, Los Cumpleanos – with Nestor Gomez – vox/percussion; Lautaro Burgos – drums; Eric Lane – keyboards; Alex Asher – trombone and others playing trippy, dubwise tropical psychedelia,  and the Mauskovic Dance Band playing psychedelic tropicalia and dub at the Sultan Room, $12

3/10, 8 PM Palestinian kanun virtuoso & composer Firas Zreik at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St at Washington, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

3/10, 10:30 PM allusively haunting, minimalist folk noir singer Belle-Skinner at Pete’s

3/10, 8 PM pensively intense microtonal violinist/singer Sarah Bernstein leads her quartet with Ron Stabinsky on piano at Scholes St. Studios, $10

3/11, 8 PM JP Schlegelmilch’s Organ Trio – essentially psychedelic surf/cinematic trio Hearing Things with a different drummer – at Barbes

3/10, 8 PM hypnotically explosive live bhangra dance band Red Baraat at Symphony Space, $30 tix avail

3/10-14, 8:30 PM star indie classical composer-vocalist Lisa Bielawa leads a series of bands at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: Saturday night with the Parhelion Trio Andrea Christie (piano) Sarah Carrier (flute) Ashleé Miller (clarinet) (who are also there by themselves the following night, 3/15

3/10, 9 PM NZ noiserockers Swallow the Rat followed by swirly, hypnotic, totally 80s 4AD dreampop/shoegazers Dead Leaf Echo at Littlefield, $10

3/10. 10 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his group at Smalls He’s also here on 3/17

3/10-14, 11 PM rising star bassist Endea Owens and the Cookout jam out classic and new soul grooves at Dizzy’s Club, $5

3/11, 1 PM pianist Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble mash up klezmer and salsa themes at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex, sug don

3/11, 7 PM edgy jazz violinist Zach Brock and band at 55 Bar

3/11, 7:30 PM pianist Han Chen plays works by Chopin, Beethoven and Lei Liang at Elebash Hall at CUNY, free

3/11, 8 PM baritone saxophonist Eden Bareket leads a quintet at Seeds

3/11-12, 8 PM first-wave British new wave band Wire at the Music Hll of Williamsburg, $30 gen adm but will sell out

3/11, 8:30 PM Dervisi feat. psychedelic guitarist George Sempepos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems at Troost .3/19, same time they’re at Espresso 77, 35-57 77th Street (just off of 37th Ave), Jackson Heights

3/11, 9 PM exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets  at LIC Bar. They’re also at Troost on 313, 8:30is

3/11, 10 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl and his group at Pete’s

3/11, 10 PM uneasily eclectic tropically-influenced singer Renata Zeigeur and band at C’Mon Everybody, $10

3/11, 10 PM savage female-fronted garage punks Thee Minks at the Knitting Factory, $12

3/12, 7 PM soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis at 55 Bar

3/12, 7:30 PM hard-rocking, electric tres-driven Cuban band band Los Hacheros at Ginny’s Supper Club, $20

3/12, 7:30 PM hotshot bluegrass band Mile 12 at Symphony Space, $20 for30 and under, $20 otherwise

3/12, 7:30 PM Swedish pianist Helge Antoni plays a spring-themed program of works by C. Sinding, J. Sibelius, E. Grieg, W. Stenhammar, and T. Rangström. at Scandinavia House, $25

3/12, 7:30 PM Edward Forstman (piano), Jacob Elkin (trombone), Adam Bowles (piano), Jay Rodriguez (clarinet and soprano saxophone), Ammon Swinbank (flute), and Miolina Duo — Mioi Takeda and Lynn Bechtold (violins).play microtonal, overtone-rich works by Monroe Golden at Scholes St. Studios, $10

3/12, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies followed at 10 by intense Balkan chanteuseJenny Luna‘s haunting, traditional Turkish band Dolunay at Barbes

3/12, 8 PM accordion/piano genius Shoko Nagai jams with Hans Tammen (Buchla) Satoshi Takeishi at Arete Gallery, $tba

3/12, 8 PM perennially interesting piano/percussion ensemble Yarn/Wire, vocalist Nina Dante, and composer Ben Vida play his new suite Always Already at Issue Project Room $20

3/12, 8 PM accordionist Patrick Farrell & whirlwind klezmer violin icon Alicia Svigals play old wedding dances from the Kostakovsky archive at Town & Village Synagogue, Social Hall, 334 East 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

3/12, 8 PM lustrous pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn play an all-Bach program at the Miller Theatre, $30 tix avail

3/12, 8:30 PM the harrowing, immigration-themed multimedia performance Ask Hafiz – the story of Sahar Muradi’s tumultuous journey from a Soviet-ruled Afghanistan to Queens. “Along the way, Sahar, following an age-old practice, asks questions to the book of poetry by Hafiz. Theanswers are revealed through songs composed and sung by Haleh Liza, dance choreographed and performed by Malini Srinivasan, with music by Adam Maalouf, Trina Basu, Bala Skandan and Rich Stein,at the Jalopy,$15

3/12, 9 PM catchy folk noir/Nashville gothic songwriter Emily Frembgen at Pete’s

3/12, 10 PM wild, intense, frequently satirical newgrass/oldtimey hellraisers the Dustbowl Revival at Rough Trade, $18 adv tix rec

3/13, dusk, a screening of the classic 1972 reggae film The Harder They Come with Jimmy Cliff as its gangster star, in Battery Park

3/13, 6 PM powerfully hypnotic soul and Indian carnatic singer Saraswathi Jones at the American Folk Art Museum

3/13, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter at 55 Bar

3/13, 7 PM Irish no wave/postpunk band the Murder Capital at Rough Trade, free w/album purchase

3/13, 7:30/9:30 PM bassist Harish Ragavan’s Calls for Action band with Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet at the Jazz Gallery, $25

3/13. 8 PM one of New York’s most eclectic, interesting oudists, Brian Prunka with a string section followed at 10 by feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

3/13, 8 PM oldschool flamenco puro with the José del Tomate Group at Drom, $20 adv tix rec

3/13, 8 PM amazing string quintet Sybarite5– who are also the world’s coolest Radiohead cover band – at the Cell Theatre, $28. They’re also at the at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, for free on 3/29 at 4

3/13, 8 PM the Jack Quartet play the John Zorn string quartet cycle at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix rec

3/13, 8 PM American Contemporary Music Ensemble perform music by atmospheric electroacoustic cellist Clarice Jensen at the Tenri Institute

3/13, 8;30 PM darkly lyrical, Aimee Mann-ish songwriter Andrea Wittgens at the basement room at the Rockwood $12

3/13, 9:30 PM twangy altcountryAmericana/psychedelic crew American String Conspiracy at Freddy’s

3/13, 10ish explosively trippy instrumentalists Dub is a Weapon at the Gutter, $7

3/13, 10:30 PM cutting-edge, often psychedelic sax player Wayne Escoffery leads his quartet at the Fat Cat

3/14, 4 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini at Branded Saloon

3/14, 5 PM moody lo-fi keyboardist/singer Anni Rossi at Pete’s. She’s also there on 3/29 at 3:30 and at Troost on 3/25, 8:30ish

3/14, 6 PM the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy with Brain Cloud lapsteel wiz Raphael McGregor followed at 8 by poignant, eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo’s tango quartet followed at 10 by psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Gallo Bueno at Barbes

3/14, 7 PM the annual Stop the Raids annual family gathering at the Jalopy, $20 sugg, all proceeds to the cause nobody turned away for lack of funds” It has been nearly four years since the Bronx 120 Raid in the Eastchester Gardens section of the Bronx—in that time, the NYPD has continued raiding public housing across the city, tearing our loved ones from our communities en masse on bogus conspiracy charges. We are hoping to build as much support as possible for all those returning home, those who are still inside, and their families.

3/14, 7 PM organist Gail Archer plays works by women composers Joan Tower, Mary Howe, Jennifer Higdon, Nadia Boulanger at St. John Nepomucene Church, 411 E 69th St, (1st/York), free

3/14, 7:30 PM ethereal yet powerful parlor pop/goth singer/composer Kristin Hoffmann at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $20

3/14, 7:30 PM chamber orchestra Metropolis Ensemble play “music for an extremely broken consort” with “murder ballads, riddle tunes, and other lurid and gruesome pastimes featuring Fiona Gillespie, Paul Morton of Chivalrous Crickets, with Loren Ludwig of Acronym and Sian Ricketts & Tracy Cowart of Alkemie” at 1 Rivington St, $15/$10 stds

3/14, 7:30 PM anthemic Iron Maiden-style metal band the Blackfires at the Mercury, $15

3/14, 8 PM composer and multi-instrumentalist John Krausbauer in collaboration with Tokyo composer Kaori Suzuki perform “intensely ritualistic free drone music” at issue Project Room, $15

3/14, 8 PM jazz chanteuse/guitarist Yooni Choi with pianist Jacob Sacks at I-Beam, $15

3/14, 8 PM avant singer Charmaine Lee with wild extended-technique trumpeter Peter Evans at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

3/14, 8 PM wild Hungarian band Eletfa and Boston street brass band Kotoko Brass at Flushing Town Hall, $18, $12 18 and under, students w/NYC school id under 19 get in free

3/14, 8 PM political, fearless acoustic songwriter Shawna Caspi at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

3/14, 8 PM brilliantly improvisational pianist Mara Rosenbloom‘s philosophically-inspired FLYWAYS with bassist Adam Lane and singer/percussionist Anais Maviel play the album release show for their new one at Speyer Hall, The Performance Project @ University Settlement, 184 Eldridge St, $15/$10 stud/srs. 3/21, 7:30 they’re at I-Beam, same deal

3/14, 10 PM sizzling electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at Skinny Dennis

3/15 ,11 AM classical pianist Lara Downes plays a program tba at Subculture, $20 adv tix rec

3/15 3 PM the Greenwich Village Orchestra play Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue and Enescu – Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1 at All Saints Church, 230 E 60th St (2/3rd Aves), $25

3/15, 2 PM Tatev Amiryan, piano; Anna Hayrapetyan, soprano; Laura Navasardian, cello perform an all-Armenian program TBA at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25

3/15, 3 PM Mayuki Fukuhara, violin; Liuh-Wen Ting, viola; Benjamin Larsen, cello play trios by Mozart, Schubert and Schoenberg at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, sugg don

3/15, 4 PM the Brooklyn Conservatory Orchestra play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony at St. Ann’s Church in downtown Brooklyn, $25/$15 stud/srs

3/15, 4 PM the Cassatt String Quartet plus bassist play a quintet program tba at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

3/15, 6ish sharply lyrical southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner  at LIC Bar

3/15, 6 PM slinky noir/retro rock bassist/songwriter Amy LaVere at the Mercury, $12. 3/18 she’s at Skinny Dennis at 9 for free

3/15, 7 PM adventurous cellist Jeffrey Zeigler and Butoh master Dai Matsuoka under the direction of Jessica Grindstaff perform their nw piece We Were Fridays at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec

3/15, 7 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez plays the album release show for her new all-covers album Gone to Glory, a salute to dead rock n rollers with music by Prince, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, and Glen Campbell at Dixon Place, $15

3/15, 7 PM machinegunning metal trio Toxic Ruin, the screamier Stonecutters and supersonic thrash metal band Lich King at St. Vitus, $10

3/15, 7 PM an Ides of March show with spine-tingling, darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik– pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC – and pianist Mara Rosenbloom at Pangea

3/15, 7 PM indie classical guitarist Gyan Rileys Elixir – basically Riley fronting the Bang on a Can Allstars – followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

3/15, 7:30 PM three female composers intensely bridging jazz and other genres: guitarist Amanda Monaco with her quartet, flutist Cheryl Pyle and her trio and wildfire polymath violist Stephanie Griffin (Momenta Quartet) leading a semi-improvisational quintet with Gordon Beeferman, piano Hilliard Greene, bass Jake Charkey, cello; Lee Odom, clarinetat Metro Baptist Church, 410 West 40th St, (between 9th & 10th Ave.), $20/$15 stu/srs

3/15, 7:30 PM Korean artists Ki Young and Gamin, on piano and piri, with classical avant-punk violin duo String Noise pushing the boundaries of Korean traditional music at the Tenri Cultural Institute, $20

3/15, 7:30 PM improvisational alchemy: guitarist Loren Connors, a cappella accents by distinctive vocalist Suzanne Langille; intimate yet fierce guitarist and vocalist/storyteller Dora Bleu; veteran experimental guitarist and sonic artist Alan Licht; and intense, purposeful, scorching guitarist Ava Mendoza at the Windjammer,552 Grandview Ave in Ridgewood, $10

3/15, 8 PM new works by Maya Verlaak, Grzegorz Marciniak and Assaf Gidron performed by bassist Rachel Mangold and pianist Teodora Stepančić at Arete Gallery, $tba

3/15, 8:30 PM exhilarating acoustic guitar instrumentalist Lyle Brewer– like John Fahey on steroids – at Pete’s

3/15, 10 PM deviously entertaning pianist Jinjoo Yoo leads her trio at Birdland, $20 at the bar

3/16, half past noon Elad Kabilio (cello), Inbar Goldmann (mezzo soprano), and Avigail Malachi-Baev (clarinet) play synagogue music from Jewish cultures around the world at Central Synagogue, $18

3/16, 2 PM the Viano Quartet play works by Haydn, Dvorak and a Jordan Nelson world premiere at the New School auditorium at 66 W 12th St, $18

3/16, 6:30 PM powerful jazz belter – and Gil Scott-Heron reinventor – Charenee Wade at Elebash Hall at CUNY, free

3/16. 8:30 PM Romany jazz violinist Marissa Licata at Birdland, $20 at the bar

3/16, 9 PM elegantly eclectic, tuneful pianist Angelica Sanchez leads her trio at Bar Lunatico

3/16, 9 PM legendary dual-reedman George Braith– who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – with his quartet at the Fat Cat

3/16, 9:30 PM fearless, insurgent, amazingly spot-on comedienne/vocal impersonator Tammy Faye Starlite plays Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English at Joe’s Pub, $15 gen adm

3/16, 9;30 PM “the Slippery Fish pay tribute to the Mexican pedal steel master Tõno Quirazco, who in the 1960’s combined the new sound of ska music out of Jamaica with country twang to invent a twist on the Caribbean sound. With Ari Folman-Cohen – bass and John Echelay– pedal steel,” at Barbes

3/16, 11 PM eclectic pan-latin and Middle Eastern-inflected acoustic songwriter Miriam Elhajli at the big room at the Rockwood

3/17, starting in the early afternoon at Connolly’s a daylong free Irish music show with Jameson’s Revenge, Shilelagh Law, the Prodigals and more, hell yeah, none of the amateurs can start this early

3/17, 7 PM a rare reunion of NYC Irish punk legends (and Pogues reinventors) Joe Hurley and Rogue’s March at Hill Country, $20

3/17, 7 PM veteran Irish crooner Pierce Turner– at one time he was doing a mashup of the Pogues and the Moody Blues – at Joe’s Pub, $25

3/17, 7 PM the Ekstasis Duo – cellist Natasha Farni and pianist Eliran Avni – play a program tba at Revelation Gallery, 224 Waverly Pl, $20

3/17, 5 PM sarodist/guitarist Camila Celin and singer Melvis Santa jam out Indian raga and latin themes at the Assemblage at John St., 17 John St., financial district,

3/17, 7:30 PM the all-female Clarion Quartet play banned music by orks by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Weinberg at the Baruch Performing Arts Ctr, $26/$15 stud

3/18, 8 PM Brooklyn Brassens: “Georges Brassens, anarchist, provocateur and French poet, gets his repertoire re-arranged for a Nigerian-influenced quartet. With Francis Jacob – guitar, Vocals; Bennett Paster – keyboard; Derek Nievergelt – bass and AJ Olusegun – conga at Barbes

3/18, 8 PM probably the best bill to ever play Arlene Grocery: third-gen Sabbath types Sleeping Village, deliciously sludgy heavy psych band Grass, doomy stoner boogie bands Grandpa Jack and Shadow Witch at Arlene’s, $10

3/19, 7:30 PM lyrically provocative mashups of Ethiopiques, parlor pop, hard funk and psychedelia with Meklit at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/17, 7:30/9:30 PM the haunting, smokily cinematic Michael Leonhart Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, $30

3/17. 8 PM otherworldly Norwegian folk singer Marja Mortensson and band play ancient reindeer herding songs at Nublu 151, $15

3/17, 8 PM edgy oldschool and newer soul styles with singer Maya Sharpe at the small room at the Rockwood

3/17, 9ish wild Irish band the Narrowbacks at Bowery Ballroom, $15 adv tix rec avail at th e Mercury

3/18, noon Benjamin Baker, violin and Daniel Lebhardt, piano play works by Brahms, Tania Ko, Lili Boulanger and Beeethoven at the Morgan Library, $25

3/18, 7:30/9:30 PM historically-informed, lyrical trumpeter Josh Lawrence & Lost Works at the Jazz Standard, $35

3/18, 8 PM Irish revolutionary songs with the Druids at Connolly’s, $tba

3/18, 8 PM energetic delta blues/Romany swing guitaris Felix Slim at LIC Bar

3/18. 9;30 PM poignantly lyrical, eclectic pianist Marta Sanchez leads her quintet at Seeds

3/19, 7 PM rapturousy subtle tropicalia drummer/bandleader (and former Chicha Libre timbalera) Karina Colis leads her quintet at the Fat Cat

3/19, 7 PM saxophonist Berta Moreno (who titled her debut album “Little Steps”) leads her Afro-Jazz Soul Project at the Bronx Music Heritage Center at 1303 Louis Nine Blvd, $7

3/19, 7:30 PM conversational pianist Jeffrey Siegel plays music of Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt at Scandinavia House, $25

3/19, 7:30/9:30 PM OMG what a killer band: the NEC All-Stars – Fred Hersch – piano; Miguel Zenón– alto saxophone Donny McCaslin – tenor saxophone; Jorge Roeder – bass; Richie Barshay – drums at the Jazz Standard, $30

3/19, 7:30 PM the Israeli chamber Project play early Beethoven works plus Bartók’s epic Piano Quintet., at Carnegie Hall, $30 seats avail

3/19, 7:30/9:30 PM trumpet powerhouse Jeremy Pelt leads his band at Minton’s, $20 at the bar

3/19, 7:30 PM Cuban-American cellist Tommy Mesa and pianist Yoon Lee play works by Jonathan Chenette, George Holloway, Lydia Pugh, Elizabeth Start, and Ben-Yee Paulson as well as Debussy’s Sonata in D minor at the DiMenna Center, $25

3/19, 8 PM cellist Scott Ballantyne and pianist Hiroko Sasaki play works by Bach, Barber Haydn and others at Merkin Concert Hall, $25

3/19-20. 8 PM bassist Simon Hanes and Pianist Anthony Coleman at Scholes St Studios

3/19, 8 PM fiery celtic/klezmer violinist Lisa Gutkin and her band at Town & Village Synagogue, Social Hall, 334 East 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

3/19, 8:30 PM ambient electroacoustic sitarist/composer Ami Dang at the Jalopy, $15

3/20, 5:30 PM plaintive Yorkshire/Appalachian singer Jan Bell –whose gloomy chronicles of Brooklyn gentrification are spot-on – at the American Folk Art Museum

3/20, 7 PM magically lustrous jazz singer/composer Aubrey Johnson and her sextet play the album release show for her new one at the big room at the Rockwood, $20

3/20, 7 PM eclectic blues singer Fay Victor with cellist Marika Hughes, and alto saxist Darius Jones play the album release show for her stark new Barn Songs at Joe’s Pub, $15

3/20, 7 PM Tibetan composer/activist Tenzin Choegya with intense, eclectic cellist Rubin Kodheli at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

3/20, 7:30 PM Todd Phillips, violin with guest Rachel Yunkyung Choo, piano play an all-Beethoven program at Greenfield Hall at Manhattan School of Music, free

3/20, 7:30 PM salsa flutist Andrea Brachfeld y Su Charanga at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/20, 7:30/9:30 PM lyrical piano icon Fred Hersch with mesmerizing singer Dominique Eade at the Jazz Standard, $35

3/20-21, 8 PM one of the most consistently interesting improvisers out there, trombonist Steve Swell and group at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

3/20, 8 PM theremin virtuoso Pamelia Stickney‘s Jatakas at the Owl

3/20, 8 PM dusky, rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed by psychedelic Afrobeat band Super Yamba at Barbes

3/20, 9 PM Hollow Engine – who do a decent enough dreampop take on Radiohead – at the Delancey, $10

3/20 10ish hard-hitting Bronx metal band Lost Legacy at Blackthorn 51, $12/

3/20-21 Windhand at St. Vitus is sold out, bummer

3/20-3/21 Mdou Moctar at the Sultan Room is sold out – what were they thinking

3/21, 2 PM drummer Sylvia Cuenca leads her quartet at Poe Park in the Bronx

3/21, 2 PM a special NY Philharmonic Young People’s Concert on music creating change with exerpts from politically-fueled works by Shostakovich, Beethoven, Verdi and others, $16 tix avail

3/21 4 PM the rapturous, mighty Navatman Music Collective – this continent’s only Indian carnatic choir, and one of only three in the world – at Flushing Town Hall, $18, $12 18 and under, students w/NYC school id under 19 get in free

3/21, 4 PM the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone),Ben Holmes(trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries, followed at 6 PM by Big Lazy noir guitar mastermind Steve Ulrich, followed at 10 by the haphazardly funny Eastern Blokhedz – who dopsychedelic covers of 60s Russian psychedelic pop songs and specialize in the catalog of legendary Polish singer Edita Piaha –at Barbes

3/21, 5:30 PM a Nowrooz celebration with percussionist/vocalist Kamyar Arsani and vocalist Mina Omidi at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $25 adv tix rec, incl. delicious Persian food,

3/21, 7:30 PM the legendary Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio play an all-Beethoven program at Irving Auditorium, Irving Pl/17th St., $16

3/21, 7:30 PM purist postbop jazz guitarist Ed Cherry leads an organ trio at the Bar Next Door, $12

3/21, 8 PM not a music event but cool: Elizabeth Jennings: A play by Lionelle Hamanaka about the schoolteacher who desegregated the New York City streetcars by jumping aboard a “whites only” car in 1854, at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

3/21, 8 PM the NJ Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven’s Piano Concertos #2-4 with soloist Louis Lortie at NJPAC in Newark, $20 tix avail

3/21, 8 PM the Afro-Dominicano Band play perico ripiao, palo, merengue de orquesta, bachata, Afro-beat, reggae, calypso, samba, funk, punk rock and other Caribbean rhythms at Buunni Performance Space, (4961 Broadway btw 207th Street and Isham in Inwood), $15

3/21, 8 PM the Long Island Concert Orchestra with violin soloist Kyoung-Joo Sung play Beeethoven’s Violin Concerto in D and Symphony No. 2 at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

3/21, 10 PM Super Yamba play their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Footlight Bar, $10

3/21, 11 PM stark southwestern gothic jangle and clang with And the Wiremen at Petes

3/22 11 AM the Ulysses Quartet play a program tba at Subculture, $20 adv tix rec

3/22, 2 PM the verdantly atmospheric Treesearch (bassist Kyle Motl and violinist Keir GoGwilt) at Arete Gallery, $10

3/22, 3:30 PM jazz singer Nancy Kearin with her Quartet at Scholes St Studios, $10. Followed at 7 (separate $10 adm) by guitarist Nicholas Rousseau and his quintet recording a live album inspired by Jean-Jacques Roussesu (relation?)

3/22, 4:30 PM music by Ravel & Gershwin performed by Luba Poliak (piano) and Anna Elashvili (violin) at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery,

3/22, 7 PM all-female Armenian vocal trio Zulal – Teni Apelian, Anaïs Alexandra Teke Zulalrian, and Yeraz Markarian, and Perspectives Ensemble reinvent Armenian traditional music at St. James Chapel, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th St north of St. John the Divine, free

3/22, 7 PM noisepunks Sub Space, Namatay San Ingay, riff-rocking punks Filth Hound, stomping female-fronted metal/new wave band Shadowland and the mighty, fast High Command at St. Vitus, $10

3/22 7 PM Germán López – leading virtuoso of the uke-like Canary Island timple – at Joe’s Pub, $20 gen adm

3/22, 7 PM balmy, sardonically individualistic vocal jazz stylist Dorian Devins and her trio at Bar Thalia adjacent to Symph0ny Space

3/22, 7 PM the Honkytonk Heroes – a NY All-Star of sorts, featuring Charlie Giordano, Gene Yellin, Andy Statman, Tim Kiah followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

3/22, 7:30/9 PM sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece featuring Rick Germanson on piano & Paul Gill on bass at Mezzrow, $20

3/22, 8 PM flamenco jazz saxophonist Antonio Lizana with his band at Drom, $20 adv tix rec

3/22, 10 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads his ensemble at Smalls

3/23, 7 PM Melissa Gordon of Melissa & the Mannequins, one of the best purist janglerock songwriters in NYC, at the basement room at the Rockwood, $10

3/23, 7:30 PM epic orchestral instrumental art-rockers Kitt Wakeley and the Symphony of Sinners and Saints at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall,$25 tix avail

3/23, 9:30 PM Kuye with Juan Ospina (vocals), Isaac Matus (huitar), Andres Fonseca (drums), and Mohamed Sharhabil (bass) play psychedelic Caribbean rock at Barbes

3/24, 7 PM indie classical chamber ensemble Latitude 49 play the album release show for their new one with works by Gabriella Smith (a homage to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9”), Viet Cuong’s whimsical showpiece “Wax and Wire,” plus ruminant works by Annika Socolofsky and Chris Sies at Arete Gallery, free w rsvp

3/24, 7 PM violinist Sam Bardfeld leads a trio followed at 9:30 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs and Ellington reinventors Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

3/24, 7 PM cinematic bassist Mark Wade and ambitious, tuneful trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson lead their trios at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, sug don

3/24, 8 PM the String Orchestra of Brooklyn play Sarah Kirkland Snider’s achingly tense Penelope suite at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec is this 3/24 o4 26

3/24, 9 PM wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers at 11th St Bar

3/24 10 PM darkly glimmering Cretan psychedelic electric lyra/drums duo Xylouris White at the Bell House, $15

3/25, 6 PM pianist Ari Livne plays works by Ligeti, Ryan Francis and more at Elebash Hall at CUNY, free

3/25, 7 PM female-fronted brass band madness: the Brass Queens, Pussy Grabs Back Brass Band and Brassdom at Barbes

3/25, 8 PM sitar virtuoso Gaurav Mazumdar with bansuri flutist Rupak Kulkarni & tabla player Hindole Majumdar at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

3/25, 7:30/9:30 PM the Claudia Quintet– the chamber jazz group that started it all, and did a killer 9/11 memorial album – at the Jazz Gallery, $25

3/26, 7 PM pianists Hafez Babashahi, and Mira Gill play works by Schubert, Mozart, Kurtag, Chopin and Larcher at the Austraian Cultural Center, free, rsvp req

3/26, 7 PM Quintet of the Americas play James Cohn’s Klezmer Fantasy plus music by Lembit Beecher, Harold Gutiérrez, Robert Deemer and José Raul Bernardo at the National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave, $20/$10 stud/sts

3/26, 7:30/9:30 PM Latvian composer/singer Arta Jēkabsone with her quintet at the Jazz Gallery, $15

3/26, 7:30 PM pianist Per Tengstrand and Opus 21 play Chopin’s First Piano Concerto at Scandinavia House, $25

3/26, 7:30 PM, repeaitng 3/28 at 8 the NY Philharmonic play Lalo’s Spanish Symphony, Janacek’s Taras Bulba Suite, Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin and works by Berlioz, $32 tix avail

3/26, 7:30 PM kinetic Chicago postrock/acid jazz bnad the Necks at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

3/26, 7:30 PM Oruco (flamenco dancer and percussionist), Eduardo Trassierra (guitarist), and Kiko Peña (vocalist) re-create a traditional Flamenco Tabla at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/26, 8 PM accordion genius Shoko Nagai’s haunting Tokala Silk Road/klezmer mashup project at Barbes

3/26, 8 PM Sarah Kirkland Snider’s monumental work Penelope, performed by soprano Eliza Bagg, percussionist Victor Caccese, and the Manhattan Chamber Players at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

3/26-28, 8 PM “an operatic realization of the rarely heard Compositions No. 279-283 for comedian and improvising musicians by a giant of American music, composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton, featuring Rob Reese, actor/director; Nate Wooley, trumpet; Jessica Pavone, strings, Ingrid Laubrock, saxophones; Kamala Sankaram, vocals; Elizabeth Saunders, vocals at the Flea, 20 Thomas St, Tribeca, $30

3/26, 8 PM exhilarating klezmer/latin/cumbia jamband Metropolitan Klezmer at Town & Village Synagogue, Social Hall, 334 East 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

3/26, 8 PM a “composer portrait” of trombonist George Lewis performed by Laura Cocks, Seth Parker Woods, Dana Jessen, Conrad Harris & Pauline Kim at Issue Project Room, $15

3/26, 8:30 PM hauntingly mesmerizing Iraqi classical singer Zahra Zubaidi (of Safaafir) at the Jalopy, $15

3/27, 6:30 PM flamenco chanteuse Rocio Marquez and band at Elebash Hall at CUNY, $30

3/27, 6:30 PM folk noir duo the Tall Pines at the American Folk Art Museum

3/27, 7:30 PM succinct, lyrical Americana road warrior Peter Mulvey at City Vineyard, $20\

3/27, 8 PM trumpeter Ben Holmes’ broodingly Middle Eastern/klezmer-tinged Naked Lore trio at Barbes

3/27-8, 8 PM unpredictable, intense improvisational jazz trombonist Josh Roseman at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

3/27, 8 PM the String Orchestra of Brooklyn play works by by Caroline Shaw, Shelley Washington and Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

3/27, 7:30 PM Cuban pianist Dayramir González and band put an Afro-Cuban spin on Bowie and Blondie tunes at Joe’s Pub, $25 adv tix rec

3/27, 8 PM the NJ Symphony Orchestra play Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Christopher Rouse: Bassoon Concerto and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony at NJPAC in Newark, $20 tix avail

3/27, 8:30 PM Korean oboeist/flutist Gamin and the traditional Korean Nangye Gugak Orchestra at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, $35, expensive, but could be super cool

3/27, 8 PM baritone sax sage Dave Sewelson leads his quintet at the old Nublu; 3/30, 9 PM he’s at Bar Lunatico

3/27, 9 PM haunting flamenco/Sicilian folk chanteuse Julia Patinella.at the basement room at the Rockwood, $12

3/27, 9:30 PM majestic, darkly cinematic surf band the TarantinosNYC at Freddy’s

3/27, 10 PM psychedelic Afrobeat jammers Underground System at the Sultan Room, $15

3/28. 6 PM Big Lazy noir guitar mastermind Steve Ulrich followed at 10 by slinky, hypnotic percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at Barbes

3/28, 7 PM soprano Lucy Dhegrae sings works by Yoko Ono, Pauline Oliveros, Alison Knowles, Pamela Z, Meredith Monk, Kate Soper, and Luciano Berio on themes of post-traumatic stress disorder at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

3/28, 7:30 PM purist postbop jazz guitarist Jocelyn Gould leads a trio at the Bar Next Door, $12

3/28, 7:30 PM pianist Conrad Tao‘s Junction Trio play works by Haydn, Ives and Dvorak at Irving Auditorium, Irving Pl/17th St., $16

3/28, 8 PM gospel singer Robert Gibbons, trombonist poet Demetrius Daniel and politically-inspired bluesy songwriter Fred Arcoleo at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”’

3/28, 8 PM Irish concertina/accordion player Christy McNamara returns from Ireland to reprise last year’s concert with guitarist David Sidman, plus a special opening set by Jerry O’Sullivan, arguably America’s premier master of the uilleann pipes at the Jalopy $15 adv tix avail at the theatre

3/28, 8 PM flamenco crooner Rancapino Chico – “torchbearer of flamenco puro and heir to the cantes of Cadiz” – at Roulette, $30

3/29, 7PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo with fellow six-stringer Steve Cardenas duo followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

3/28 9 PM haunting French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares’ Ajoyo project with singer Sarah E. Charles at Bar Lunatico

3/28 9ish eclectic violinist Dana Lyn’s protean, psychedelic, ecologically woke jazz project Mother Octopus at the Owl

3/28 9 PM honkytonk guitarslinger Danny Weiss and charming singer Mary Olive Smith’s oldschool C&W band Stillhouse Serenade at the Jalopy Tavern

3/28, 8 PM edgy Middle Eastern-inspired alto saxophonist Uri Gurvich leads an electric quintet at Nublu 151, $15

3/28, 8 PM lush, intense, artfully orchestrated psychedelic rockers Aunt Ange at the small room at the Rockwood

3/28, 8 PM the Fonema Consort play new works by Jessie Cox, Fjola Evans, Louis Goldford and Laure Hiendl.at the DiMenna Center, $tba

3/28, 8 PM first-class improvisers: jazz bassoonist Sarah Schoenbeck’s duo SSWH with Dana JEssen and violinist Jason Kao Hwang‘s Sing House at Soup & Sound

3/28. 8 PM sax duo Hocket: Alastair Wright and Dylan Ward play music by Augusta Read Thomas, Meredith Monk, Kirsten Broberg, Ken Thomson, David Biedenbender, Lei Liang and Marc Mellits at Scholes St Studios, $10

3/29, 11 AM intense, fearlessly relevant Middle Eastern clarinetist Kinan Azmeh‘s City band at Subculture, $20 adv tix rec, that’s worth getting up early for on a Sunday!

3/29, 4 PM soul songwriter Sandra Small – who brings the passion of oldschool soul into the hip-hop era – at the small room at the Rockwood

3/29, 7 PM ambient electroacoustic improvisation by violinist Daniel Pioro and Icelandic composer Valgeir Sigurðsson at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

3/29,. 7 PM a jazz piano twinbill w/ Erez Aviram Trio & Shai Portugaly and the Band at Scholes St Studios, $10

3/29, 7ish  catchy folk noir/Nashville gothic songwriter Emily Frembgen at LIC Bar

3/29, 8 PM flamenco cantante Elena Andujar and band at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

3/29, 10:30 PM apocalyptic psychedelic circus rock with Frogbelly & Symphony at the Sultan Room, $12

3/30, 7 PM the Raga Maqam ensemble with rapturous Middle Eastern trumpeter Amir Elsaffar, violinist Arun Ramamurthy and an all-star Indian ensemble at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

3/30 8 PM lush, elegant, classically-informed jazz with the Vadim Neselovskyi Nonet feat. trumpeter Dave Douglas and magically haunting singer Sara Serpa at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

3/31, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, the new generation’s most eclectic jazz harpist, Brandee Younger & bassist Dezron Douglas at the Miller Theatre, free

3/31, 7:30/9:30 PM vocal jazz supergroup Duchess -Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner and Melissa Stylyianou with Jesse Lewis on guitar at the Jazz Standard, $30

3/31, 7:30 PM violin duo Milolina play their US debut with works by Ann Rosén, Finnish composer Tomi Räisänen, and Lynn Bechtold, as well as other featured works by Norwegian composer Ketil Hvoslef and Swedish composers Cecilia Franke, Mauro Godoy Villalobos, and Katarina Leyman, at Scandinavia House, $25

3/31, 7:30 PM Belarusian-American cellist Mark Prihodko, with pianist Tatiana Goncharova play works by Beethoven, Franck, Mark Mico and others at Merkin Concert Hall, $15 tix avail

3/31, 8 PM one of New York’s most eclectic, interesting oudists, Brian Prunka and his Egyptian-style band Sharq Attack at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St at Washington, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

4/2, 7:30 PM pianist Gabriele Baldocci plays a program tba at St. Johns Church, 218 W 11th St.,

4/3, 8 PM the NY Philharmonic play a $5 concert featuring music by Bernstein, Copland, Shostakovich, Nina C. Young, andNew York Philharmonic Very Young Composer Paloma Alonso as well as music chosen by ticketholders.

4/4, 8 PM Yemeni oudist Abdulrahman Al-Akhfash with mesmerizing Omani oudist/singer Amal Waqar and multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil at Roulette, $30

4/8, 7 PM everybody’s favorite downtown NYC soundtrack band, Morricone Youth followed by a screening of Kire Papputs’ suspense film The Last Porno Show – about a kid who inherits a porno theatre and hopes to close it but gets sucked into a more and more twisted world – at Nighthawk Theatre in Williamsburg, $18

4/9, 7:30 PM the HEO Trio blend Korean and French sounds into jazz at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/13. 7;30 PM pianist Vasily Primakov plays sonatas by Franck and Chopin at St. Johns Church, 218 W 11th St.,

4/14 drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, indie classical supergroup the Hands Free – James Moore, guitar & banjo; Caroline Shaw, violin Eleonore Oppenheim, bass; Nathan Koci, accordionat the Miller Theatre, free

4/16, 8 PM the NY Scandia Symphony play works by Carl Nielsen, Hugo Alfven, Emil Hartmann at Symphony Space, $25

4/16, 7:30 PM adventurous jazz singer/trumpeter Linda Briceño and band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/16-18 haunting composer/pianist Michael Hersch with eclectic vocal/chamber ensemble Cantata Profana at the Irondale Center

4/17, 7:30 PM Son Del Monte play low brass-driven salsa dura at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/18, 8 PM haunting tanbour virtuoso Ali Akbar Moradi with ubiquitous Iranian percussionist Pejman Hadadi, the innovative at Roulette, $30

4/24, 8 PM Debapriya Adhikary and Samanwaya Sarkar play a rare duet with vocal and sitar at Roulette, $30

4/25, 8 PM oudist Brahim Frigbane and sintir player Hassan Hakmoun duel it out at Roulette, $30

4/28, 7 PM violinist Asi Matathias and pianist Matthew Graybil play works by Vitali, Beethoven and Saint-Saens at Revelation Gallery, 224 Waverly Pl, $20

4/30, 7:30 PM the Heath Quartet play an all-Beethoven program at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

5/1, 7:30 PM Soul Science Lab duo, Chen Lo and Asanté Amin “recreate the year 1963 in a live performance with artists whose work breathes new life into the sights and sounds that shaped the music of an era—allowing a modern audience to rethink, renew, and remix their conceptions of the past. From the Black empowerment songs of James Brown to the outcries for justice in Ferguson, Soundtrack ’63 highlights pivotal moments in America’s history and illustrates why they remain relevant today” at Alice Tully Hall, $25

5/19. 7 PM pianist Asiya Korepanova leads a trio playing works by Tschaikovskky and a trio version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 at Revelation Gallery, 224 Waverly Pl, $20

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for February 2020

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, you might want to bookmark this page and check back regularly.

If you’re leaving your hood, don’t get stuck waiting for a train that never comes, make sure you check the MTA delays and out-of-service page for service cancellations and malfunctions, considering how unreliable the subway is at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you discovered here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar:

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! This winter’s agenda is Childhood Classics: A series of three evenings featuring the music we were forced to play – music composed expressly for children, Bach to Kurtag, like it or not, and conversation about that experience, about the piano, and about ongoing musical growth…4 PM on February 16, and March 15, sug don, email for details/address

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of tropical bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.. Brain Cloud are also playing their 10th anniversary show on Nov 22 at 9 PM at the Jalopy for $20

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $35 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays starting at 9:30 PM Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play two sets at Union Pool. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically woke, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the usual lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests. Sizzling guitarist Binky Griptite – Sharon Jones’ lead player – is also often there.

Tuesdays at 9 PM, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (check the club calendar), $10 cover.

Wednesdays at 9ish the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Most Thursdays at 8:30, the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays at 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Saturdays in February, 6 PM busker swing legends the Xylopholks’ vibraphonist Jonathan Singer with a motley, rotating cast at Barbes

Sundays in March, 1 PM  brilliant, fearlessly political B3 organist Greg Lewis plays Monk tunes at Bar Lunatico. He’s also there with Brianna Thomas and the Juke Joint Jelis on the 19th

Most Sundays at 5:15 PM starting in late September, a free recital on the amazing, powerful, dynamic new organ at St. Thomas Church at 5th Ave and 53rd St. featuring some of the world’s greatest organists. The space is magnificent and the music usually is too. Right now the church fathers are programming pretty much everybody who used to work here and play the mighty old Aeolian-Skinner organ that finally had to be replaced. Check the concert calendar for details.

Sundays in February at 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of groups at the Bar Next Door

Sundays in March,, 8/11 PMthe fearlessly relevant, toweringly intense Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, at Birdland, $30 at the bar

Sundays at 9:30 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel leads his band at Barbes – check the club calendar just to make sure.

2/1, 11:30 AM (in the morning) the Nightingale Farm – Mary Spencer Knapp as narrator and singer, Teagan Taylor on trumpet & vocals, Doug Berns on bass and vocals, Sean Salant on guitar, and Ethan Meyer on percussion.- present their original adaptations of the classic baseball poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer plus Wilhelmina Harper’s “The Gunniwolf.” These stories follow a family singalong. At Greenlight Bookstore: 632 Flatbush Ave, Ft. Greene, free for kids of all ages

2/1, 2:30 PM the NY Classical Players perform the Debussy String Quartet, Dvorak’s American String Quartet and the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello at the NYPL for the Performing Arts out back of Lincoln Center free

2/1, 4 PM cinematic, psychedelic quirk-pop keyboardist Michael Hearst presents “Curious, Unusual and Extraordinary” songs from his many bands followed at 6 by Xylopholks’ vibraphonist Jonathan Singer, at 8 by Transylvanian pianist Lucian Ban with tuba jazz legend Bob Stewart and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

2/1. 4 PM moody lo-fi keyboardist/singer Anni Rossi followed at 8 by cellist Margaret Tran at Pete’s

2/1, 7 PM hard-hitting latin jazz pianist Donald Vega leads his trio at Birdland, $20 at the bar

2/1, 7:30/9:30 PM this era’s most consistently interesting jazz pianist, Vijay Iyer and trio plus special guest Wadada Leo Smith at the Jazz Standard $30

2/1, 7 PM great doom metal triplebill: Green Dragon – evil stoner boogie/doom ban who need a singer – followed by the enveloping, slower, more unhinged Yatra and then the even sludgier Warhorse at St. Vitus $15

2/1, 7 PM the Brooklyn Conservatory Chorale sing music by French composers Fauré, Poulenc, Ravel and Boulanger, and English composers Byrd, Finzi, Howells and Tallis at Old First Reformed Church , 729 Carroll St,, Park Slope, $20

2/1, 7:30 PM ruthlessly funny, politically satirical faux-folk duo Friends Who Folk (Rachel Wenitsky and Ned Riseley) at Union Hall,702 Union St. north of 7th Ave, R to Union St and walk uphill, $10

2/1 8 PM haunting Middle Eastern guitarist Ayman Fanous at Spectrum $15

2/1, 8 PM sunny banjoist/songwriter Jenna Lindbo followed by politically aware, catchy acoustic songwriter Ruth Hill at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

2/1, 8 PM visionary violinist/social critic Laurie Anderson at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, no joke, $20

2/1, 8 PM duos Double Standard (Jennifer Gersten, violin; Laura Davey, piano) and hear|say (Iva Casián-Lakoš, cello; John Ling, percussion) “suspend their historic rivalry in the interest of mutual music-mongering. Music by Sky Macklay and Sarah Hennies, as well as premieres by Erika Dohi, John Ling, and Ed RosenBerg II” at Arete Gallery, $15

2/1, 8:30 PM darkly tuneful pianist Kris Davis spars with her tenor sax bud Ingrid Laubrock at the Stone at the New School, $20

2/1, 9 PM sharply literary, ten-piece country/carnivalesque/acoustic rock powerhouse M Shanghai String Band at the Jalopy, $10. 2/6 at 7 they’re at Shapeshifter Lab, $tba

2/1, 9ish badass drummer Rachel Housle‘s bday bash with lots of soul, rock, maybe mass free jazz improvisation at the Jalopy Tavern

2/1, Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 10 PM with the eclectically cinematic Cameramen and the similarly cinematic, more dramatic TarantinosNYC and at around midnight Brooklyn cover crew Band of Others

2/1, 10 PM Elliott Smith-esque chamber-pop band the Morning Sea at the small room at the Rockwood

2/2, 1 PM pianist Jiayang Jin with Bangjun Xia, violin play music of Bach, Bacewicz, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin, and Chopin at the 92nd St. Y, free

2/2, 4 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel at Skinny Demis. He’s also here on 2/15 at 4 and 2/27 at 10

2/2, 5:30 PM the New Alchemy Jazz Orchestra with powerhouse soul belter Nicole Zuraitis at Birdland $25 at the bar. Followed at 8:30 ($30 separate adm) by mighty latin jazzz pianist Arturo O’Farrill‘s Octet. 2/13 at 7 Zuraitis leads her own band at 55 Bar

2/2, 7 PM cellist Jakob Kullberg plays solo works by Per Nørgård, Kaija Saariaho, and Bent Sørensen at National Sawduwt $30 adv tix rec

2/2, 8 PM multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter’s noir, cinematic, epic Ghost Train Orchestra with special guest crooners Theo Bleckmann, JG Thirlwell and others at the Poisson Rouge, $15 adv tix rec

2/3, 6 PM the improvisationally-inclined Osso String Quartet followed at 8 by sweeping, swinging vibraphone jazz with Behn Gillece and his band at the Fat Cat

2/3. 7:30 PM pianist Joanne Polk leads a trio playing a program of all female composers: Amy Beach, Cecile Chaminade, Louise Farrenc, Clara Schumann and Judith Zaimont at Greenfield Hall at Manhattan School of Music, 130 Claremont Ave north of 122nd st , free

2/3. 8ish largescale improvisational ensemble Pedestrian conducted by Will Shore feat: Kenny Wollesen, Jason Nazary, Michael Kiaer, Jessica Lurie, Briggan Kraus, Mike Irwin, Christof Knoche, Emilie Webel, Adam Brisbin, Michael Coleman, Ava Mendoza, Aument at Holo, $10

2/3, 9 PM deviously clever drummer Jochen Reuckert leads his trio with Mark Turner on tenor and Matt Penman on bass at Bar Lunatico

2/3, 9:30ish Gato Loco bass saxophone monster Stefan Zeniuk’s new slightly less crazy band Green Mambo – a Perez Prado tribute – at Barbes

2/4, 6 PM rousing, anthemic janglerock/Americana band the Hawthorns at the small room at the Rockwood

2/4, 730 PM pianist Do-hyun Kim plays works by Mozart, Chopin, Bartok at Merkin Concert Hall, $10 tix avail

2/4-9, 7:30/9:30 PM alto powerhouse Ravi Coltrane leads his quartet at the Jazz Standard $30

2/4, 8 PM drummer Kate Gentile‘s Find Letter X followed by trombonist Kalia Vandever leading her trio at Seeds

2/4, 8 PM vocalist/composer Charmaine Lee and clarinetist Carol McGonnel perform original works plus pieces by Schoenberg and Erin Gee at Arete Gallery, $15. They’re at the Austrian Cultural Center the next night, 2/5 for free, rsvp reqd

2/4, 8 PM darkly lyrical psychedelic pop songwriter Jennifer Hall at the Parkside

2/4-9, 8:30/10 PM lyrical jazz piano icon Fred Hersch leads his trio at the Vanguard

2/4-8, 8:30 PM fascinatingly lyrical, individualistic pianist Sylvie Courvoisier leads a series of groups at the New School, $20. Choice pick: closing night in a trio with Wadada Leo Smith!

2/4, 9 PM intense janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy project theBastards of Fine Arts at 11th St. Bar

2/4, 10 PM ferocious art-rock jamband Planta at Terraza 7, $10

2/4, 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his group at Smalls

2/4, 10 PM the majestic, titanically kinetic NYChillharmonic– a mighty art-rock band with jazz instrumentation – at the Poisson Rouge, $15 adv tix rec

2/5, 1 PM cellist Sophia Bacelar, with intutive, eclectic pianist Alexandra Joan play works by Tschaikovsky, Kapustin and Rachmaninoff at the Greene Space, free, rsvp req

2/5. 7 PM the String Orchestra of NY plays music by Swiss composers at Symphony Space, $15 adv tix rec

2/5, 7:30 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl with Tim Armacost (tenor sax), Jay Anderson (bass) at Mezzrow, $20. 2/10 at 7 Ridl’s at 55 Bar

2/5-6, 7:30 PM, repeating 2/8 at 8 and 2/11 at 7:30 PM the NY Philharmonic play Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1, Mozart’s solemn “Great” Mass and a Nina C. Young world premiere. $35 tix avail

2/5, 8 PM hypnotically emveloping, atmospheric guitarist/soundscaper Rafiq Bhatia plays the album release show for his new one with Vuyo Sotashe, Nina Moffitt, Jack Hill, Ian Chang, & Chris Pattishall at National Sawdust, $20 adtv tix rec

2/5, 7:30 PM lyrical latin jazz pianist Manuel Valera‘s new Cuban Express big band at the Django

2/5, 8 PM cinematic noir soul instrumentalists the Ghost Funk Orchestra at the Sultan Room, $10

2/5, 9ish Radiohead soundalikes and “post-Americana” chamber rock ensemble Briars of North America at the Owl

2/5, 8 PM drummer Gerald Cleaver leads an incendiary trio with Brandon Seabrook on guitar and Brandon Lopez on bass at Bar Bayeaux

2/5, 8 PM indie classical chamber orchestra Darmstadt Ensemble play Terry Riley’s In C at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

2/5, 8ish sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies at Our Wicked Lady, $10

2/5,8:30 PM Dervisi feat. psychedelic guitarist George Sempepos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems at Troost

2/5, 9ish bass sax powerhouse Colin Stetson’s trippy, darkly loopy postrock/soundscape band Ex Eye at St. Vitus,, $15

2/5, 10 PM wryly psychedelic cinematic Italophile instrumentalists/parodists Tredici Bacci at Baby’s All Right, $12

2/6, 5:30 PM trumpeter Rachel Therrien leads a killer, lyrical quintet with Caroline Davis – alto sax; Marta Sanchez – piano; Rick Rosato – bass; Jay Sawyer – drums at Birdland. $25 at the bar

2/6, 7 PM fearlessly woke hip-hop with Rebel Diaz w special guests Julianno Sosa, Nani Castle, Immortal Technique & A Desalambrar in solildarity w/ Chile at SOB’s, $20

2/6, 7 PM poignant, nuanced jazz singer Amy Cervini leads her quartet at 55 Bar

2/6, 7:30 PM the Telegraph Quartet play a program tba at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/6, 7:30 PM lyrical pianist Chris Pattishall with Barry Stephenson (bass), TJ Reddick (drums) at Mezzrow, $20

2/6, 8 PM the the Attacca Quartet, So Percussion and badass indie classical violinist/singer Caroline Shaw sing/play her work at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

2/6, 8:30 PM cutting-edge new klezmer sounds with Radiant Others w/Dan Blacksberg & guitarist Nick Millevoi at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

2/6, 9ish fearlessly political, funny acoustic punk siren Jeanie Skelly at Whiskey Bar 28-48 31st St, Astoria, N to Astoria Blvd

2/6, 9 PM high-voltage honkytonk guitar monster Wayne Hancock at the Knitting Facgory, $15

2/6, 9ish fiery oldtimey string band the Four O’Clock Flowers at Sunny’s

2/6, 10ish explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Niagara, Ave A/7th St

2/6, 10 PM dynamic, subtle all-female klezmer band Tsibele at Barbes

2/6, 10 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar,Saul Rubin leads his Zebtet at the Fat Cat. He’s also here on 2/11 and 2/18 at 7

2/7, 7 PM Iceland’s adventurous Nordic Affect period-instrument ensemble at Spectrum, $15

2/7, 7 PM the MSM Symphony Orchestra play works by Beethoven, Schoenberg, and Scriabin at Niedorf Hall at Manhattan School of Music, 130 Claremont Ave north of 122nd St., free

2/7, 7:30 PM the Brooklyn Art Song Society perform works by Bartok, Kodaly, and Janacek at the Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St, downtown Brooklyn, 2/3 to Clark St., $25/$15 stud/srs

2/7, 8 PM John McCowen plays solo contrabass clarinet at Issue Prject Room, sug don

2/7, 8 PM tunefully ubiquitous downtown jazz reedman Marty Ehrlich with Michael Formanek on bass and Tomas Fujiwara on drums at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20. He’s back the following night 2/8 same time with pianist Kris Davis

2/7, 8 PM the NY Chamber Players perform Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.1 in C Maj; Schubert: Rondo for Violin and Strings and Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Maj. at the diMenna Center, free

2/7, 8 PM playfully literate superduo Kill Henry Sugar– guitar/banjo mastermind Erik Della Penna and drummer Dean Sharenow – followed at 10 by followed at 10 by brilliant Americana/jazz/cinematic violinist Skye Steele’s Glorious Sunshine band at Barbes

2/7, 9 PM Brass Against – sort of like revolutionary postrock soul band Algiers with a big brass section – at the Poisson Rouge, $20

2/7, 9 PM violinist Alexi Kenney plays works by Enescu, Bach, Kurtag, Saariaho and others at the 92nd St Y, $25

2/7, 9 PM edgy, politically-fueled, tuneful powerpop/folk-pop songwriter Niall Connolly followed by the enigmatically psychedelic All Night Chemists at the small room at the Rockwood

2/7. 9:30 PM a really quiet band for Lucky 13 Saloon: Bajo Pression‘s psychedelic Mexican soul, $7

2/7, 10:30 PM tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson leads his quintet at the Fat Cat

2/7, 11:30 PM Changing Modes– NYC’s funnest, most unpredictable, sharply lyrical new wave art-rock band – at the Gutter, $7

2/8, 4 PM best bill of the year so far:  the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone),Ben Holmes (trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries, followed at 6 by busker swing legends the Xylopholks’ vibraphonist Jonathan Singer, at 8 by intense, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leading hisTango Quartet and at 10 by Super Yamba playing their psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Barbes

2/8, 2 and 7:30 PM the NJ Symphony Orchestra performs John Williams’ score to accompany a screening of the Star Wars classic Return of the Jedi at NJPAC in Newark, $26 tix avail

2/8, 7:30 PM pianist Ivan Gusev plays works of C.P.E. Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin at the Tenri institute, $20

2/8, 9ish perennially entertaining, funny, politically spot-on Rod MacDonald at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

2/8, 10 PM Bolivian cumbia legends Los Hijos Del Sol at Cub Bonafide, $25 – they seem to be doing an acoustic thing now

2/8, 10 PM sizzling electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at Skinny Dennis

2/8, midnight unpredictably fun, funny art-rock/psychedelic soul band the Academy Blues Project at the small room at the Rockwood. 2/21 at 10 they’re at Silvana

2/9, 3 PM improvisational choir Constellation Chor at Spectrum, $15

2/9, 3 PM the Greenwich Village Orchestra play Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite plus Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 at All Saints Church, 230 E 60th St (2/3rd Aves) $25 sug don

2/9, 4 PM Ayane Kozasa and Melissa Reardon, violas and Raman Ramakrishnan and Paul Wiancko, cellos, perform bustling, cinematic works by Wiancko and others at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

2/9, 5 PM, repeating 2/12 at 6:30 PM the G# duo – Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin and Yelena Grinberg, piano play works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schubert at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St.,deets here

2/9, 5 PM the Atlantic Chamber Players play several wind quintets and other chamber works by Schchedrin, David Amram, Eric Ewazen and others at Our Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Avenue (one block west of Broadway at 189th Street), free

2/9, 5 PM the Sometime Boys’ riveting, powerful, theatrical frontwoman Sarah Mucho sings dark cabaret and rock tunes at Freddy’s

2/9, 5:30 PM darkly sweeping, cinematic singer/composer Jihye Lee and her Orchestra at Birdland $25 at the bar. mighty latin jazzz pianist Arturo O’Farrill‘s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra are there at 8:30 and 11 after for $30 separate adm. O’Farrill’s big unit is also there on 2/16 and 2/23

2/9, 6 PM Guillermo Gregorio on clarinet, Ivan Barenboim on contralto clarinet and Nick Jozwiak on cello jam out the lows followed by baritone sax monster Dave Sewelson with Ras Moshe and Leonid Galaganov at Downtown Music Gallery, free

2/9, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo and Luca Benedetti, followed at 9 by Adam Klipple’s Hammond organ extravaganza at 55 Bar

2/9, 7:30 PM imaginative, purist baritone saxophonist Claire Daly leads her quartet at Smalls

2/10, 6 PM the Greenpoint Songwriters Exchange – a diverse bunch playing everything from folk noir to Costelloesque, literary rock to Indian ragas and oldschool soul – at Pete’s

2/10, 7:30 PM the Juilliard Orchestra play Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major; Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite and Concerto in E-flat, “Dumbarton Oaks” at Alice Tully Hall, $20

2/10, 10ish the NYC Gaita Club – a Bulla en el Barrio spinoff – play rustically pounding Afro-Colombian trance-dance music at Barbes

2/11, 7 PM the Underground Spiritual Ground, a new supergroup and Anbessa Orchestra spinoff exploring the connection between African-American spirituals, Ethiopian and Caribbean music followed at 9 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

2/11, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian and band; at 10 acerbic alto saxophonist David Binney leads his quartet at 55 Bar

2/11, 7:30/9:30 PM the haunting, smokily atmospheric Michael Leonhart Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, $30

2/11, 8 PM arguably the foremost piano improviser alive (and a hell of a composer too), Satoko Fujii‘s Kaze quartet at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

2/11-15, 8:30 PM unstoppably edgy, deservedly iconic, fearlessly political downtown guitarist Marc Ribot leads a series of ensembles at the Stone., $20 Choice pick: opening night with Greg Lewis (organ) Gerald Cleaver (drums)

2/11-16, 8:30/10 PM the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra– composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – play their annual weeklong stand on their home turf

2/11, 9ish intense, multistylistic blues guitarist/singer Will Scott at Sunny’s

2/11, 9:30 edgy lead guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band at Pete’s. 2/13 at 9 he’s at Bar Chords

2/11-15, 11:30 PM rising star bassist Endea Owens and the Cookout at Dizzy’s Club, $5

2/12, 7 PM Brasbrook: (Brassens/Brooklyn) Georges Brassens, anarchist, provocateur and French poet, gets his repertoire re-arranged for a Nigerian-influenced quartet. With Francis Jacob – guitar, Vocals; Bennett Paster – keyboard; Derek Nievergelt – bass and AJ Olusegun – congas at Barbes

2/12-13, 7 PM the best singing pianist (and the best piano-playing singer) in jazz, Champian Fulton at Birdland, $20 at the bar

2/12, 7 PM the southern gothic of Dolly Parton comes to life! Nath Ann Carrera sings “an evening of the most extreme sensationalistic story songs written by Dolly Parton from all eras of her career, featuring her decades-spanning canon of cautionary tales about why you shouldn’t trust men, have children, or get married, in any context whatsoever!” at Joe’s Pub, $18 gen adm

2/12, 7:30 PM darkly eclectic pianist and Cecile McLorin Salvant collaborator Sullivan Fortner solo at Mezzrow, $20

2/12, 7:30/9:30 PM Middle Eastern-tinged tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur with Nitai Hershkovits – piano; Petros Klampanis – bass; Johnathan Blake – drums at the Jazz Standard, $30

2/12, 8 PM the DaCapo Chamber Players perform music of African-American composers George Walker and Wendell Logan at Merkin Concert Hall, $20

2/12, 8 PM trumpet powerhouse Jeremy Pelt leads a quartet with Stacy Dillard, Clovis Nicolas and Diego Ramirez at Bar Bayeux

2/11, 8 PM classical Iraqi repertoire by Nazim El Ghazali, Afifa Iskanar, and Wahida Khalil sung by Iraqi vocalist Zahra Zubaidi at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St at Washington, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

2/12 ,8 PM Yooni Choi on vocals with lyrical pianist Jacob Sacks at I-beam, $15

2/12, 8:30 PM original honkytonk band Sarah Durning and the Fun Sisters at Freddy’s

2/12, 8:30 PM rising star trumpeter Adam O’Farrill‘s Stranger Days Quartet at Seeds

2/12, 9 PM sardonically relevant, guitar-fueled female-fronted Americana punks Spanking Charlene play the album release show for their new one at Bowery Electric, $12

2/12, 9ish new Brooklyn honkytonk band Lissy & the Jacks at the Jalopy Tavern

2/13, 7:309:30 PM Wet Ink Ensemble play duo compositions: pianist Eric Wubbels and singer Charmaine Lee, cellist Mariel Roberts and violinist Josh Modney at Scholes St Studios, $10, stud free

2/13, 7:30/9:30 PM an all-star big band including but not limited to tenor player Ben Kono and a large cast play new big band works by Sam Blakeslee, Elijah Shiffer, Ines Velasco at the Jazz Gallery, $15

2/13, 7:30 PM pianist Melaine Daulbert plays original works plus pieces by Anastassis Philippakopoulos, Sébastien Roux and Michael Vincent Waller at Arete Gallery, $15

2/13,7:30 PM Austin soul powerhouse Tameca Jones and band at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under, $30 otherwise

2/13 ,7:30 PM hotshot, purist bassist Endea Owens leads her band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/13, 8 PM 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies followed at 10 by drummer Arthur Vint & Associates reinventing classic Morricone spaghetti western soundtracks at Barbes

2/13, 8 PM punk classical vocal jams with Odeya Nini plus the Chutneys feat Gelsey Bell, guitarist Chris Cochrane, and percussionist and composer Fast Forward. at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

2/13, 8 PM pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach’s Branderburg Concerto No. 5 and other Bch works at the Miller Theatre, $30 tix avail

2/13, 8:30ish psychedelic supergroup the Elgin Marbles feat. members of Love Camp 7, Dervisi and Peter Stampfel’s jug band at Troost

2/13, 8:30 PM multi-reedman Sam Sadigursky’s klezmer project “The Solomon Diaries” feat accordionist Nathan Koci at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

2/13, 9 PM 20s hot jazz revivalists Cait and the Critters at Radegast Hall

2/14, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter at 55 Bar

2/14, 7ish entertainingly shuffling, harmony-driven jug band the Salt Cracker Crazies at Terra Blues

2/14-15, 7:30 PM cleverly lyrical, darkly klezmer-tinged pianist Uri Caine leads his trio at Smalls. 2/28-29 at 8 PM he’s at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

2/14-16, 730/9:30 PM the Mingus Big Band’s annual weekend stand at the Jazz Standard. $30

2/14, 8 PM dark cabaret legend Sanda Weigl and her Romany-flavored band followed  at 10 by amazingly fun, noirish, psychedelic surf/cinematic  trio Hearing Things at Barbes

2/14, 8 PM catchy, jangly desert rock band Pistolera at Flushing Town Hall, free, tix req

2/14, 8 PM latin-tinged hard funk band Shelley Nicole’s Blackbushe at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (the BMCC auditorium on Chambers St), $25

2/14, 8 PM night one of the annual jug band festival at the Jalopy with Piedmont Bluz – Eli Smith – Old Scratch Sallies – Fatboy Wilson & Old Viejo Bones – Morgan O’Kane & Ezekiel Healy, $15 each night or $20 for both

2/14, 8 PM Norah Jones’ edgy, perennially popular oldschool C&W/soul band Puss N Boots at Rough Trade,$25 gen adm. The next night 2/15 they’re at Bowery Ballroom, same deal

2/14, 9 PM feral cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Conor Hanick play works by John Zorn, Natacha Diels and others at the 92nd St Y, $25

2/14, 10:30 PM hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes at Freddy’s

2/15, 2 PM the brand new Subtle Cheetah Brass Quintet at Scholes St Studios,

2/15, 4 PM the Harlem Chamber Players perform rare works by African-American composers including Coleridge-Taylor, Perkinson, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still, and David Baker at Harlem School for the Arts, 649 Saint Nicholas Avenue at 141st $10

2/15, 4 PM the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone),Ben Holmes(trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries,followed at 6 by busker cartoon swing legends the Xylopholks’ vibraphonist Jonathan Singer, at 8 by the haphazardly funny Eastern Blokhedz  – who do psychedelic covers of 60s Russian psychedelic pop songs and specialize in the catalog of legendary Polish singer Edita Piaha – and at 10 by singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes. Bulla are also here on 2/24 at 10ish

2/15, 4 PM ICE founder and flute luminary Claire Chase, avant art-song maven Iva Bittová  and Sonic Mud (Julia Elsas & Kenny Wollesen Group) at Luisa Muhr’s monthly Women Between Arts show – NYC’s only multidisciplinary series focusing exclusively on woman performers at the Glass Box Theatre at the New School, 55 W 13th St, $20, “no one turned away for lack of funds”

2/15, 7:15 ish dark psychedelic, ferociously entertaining acoustic blues/klezmer/reggae/soca jamband Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues.. Theyre lso here on 2/29

2/15, 8ish stoner boogie/heavy psych band Grimm Jack, and punkish metal band Ferrettt at Lucky 13 Saloon, $10

2/15, 8 PM edgy wind-centric chember ensemble Quintilia at Scholes St Studios

2/15, 6 PM oldschool-style high plains C&W singer Hope Debates & North 40 at 55 Bar

2/15, 7 PM wild klezmer clarinetist Zisl Slepovitch and trio at the Empty Circle, 499 3rd Ave, Gowanus, $!5 incl open red wine bar, R/F to 4th Ave/9th St.

2/15, 7:30 PM a Middle Eastern fretburner summit: elegantly ferocious tar lute star Sahba Motallebi & virtuoso oudist/composer Rahim AlHaj at Merkin Concert Hall, expesive, $35, but what a twinbill

2/15, 8:30 night two of the Jalopy’s annual jugband festival with Ever Lovin’ Jug Band short film – Bill Carney’s Jug Addicts – Miss Maybell & the Rag Pickers – Homestead Street Band – Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues. $15 each night or $20 for both

2/15, 9 PM slashing, desert rock-tinged Austin surf band the Boss Jaguars at Otto’s

2/15, 9 PM whirlwind B3 jazz organist Pat Bianchi leads his trio at Bar Lunatico

2/15, 10:30 PM fiery, incisive postbop pianist John Chin solo at Mezzrow, $20

2/15, 11 PM explosively intense, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/roadhouse jamband Lizzie & the Makers at the small room at the Rockwood

2/16, 3 PM pianist Jerome Rosen plays Beethoven Piano trios including Variations on a Waltz of Diabelli at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, 122 W. 69th St, $15; at 730 PM the St. Cecilia Chamber Ensemble play works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and DuParc there for $10

2/16, 4 PM the Orchestra Now play popular favorites by Ravel, Debussy, Messiaen, and Stravinsky at Symphony space, free, rsvp sugg

2/16, 7 PM 8 PM accordion genius Shoko Nagai’s haunting Tokala Silk Road/klezmer mashup project followed at 9:30ish by paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel and his band at Barbes

2/16. 7 PM Kyle Motl plays new music for solo contrabass, featuring works by Caroline Louise Miller, Anqi Liu, Jessie Cox, and himself at Spectrum $15

2/16, 7 PM Jump Off This Bridge play improvisational soundscapes followed by violinist/composer Ben Sutin‘s quintet – who’re moving away from the klezmer toward a more strsight-up postbop vein lately – at Scholes St Studios

2/16, 7 PM circus rock pioneer Sxip Shirey with special guest violinists Rima Fand, Sarah Alden and others at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

2/16, 8 PM cleverly lyrical, edgily funny, spine-tingling powerpop/acoustic rock singerTamara Hey followed eventually at midnight by lyrically-fueled electric folk noir band Leland Sundries at the small room at the Rockwood

2/16, half past midnight (actually wee hours of 2/13) catchy, cinematic, noir-inclined saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads his band at Smalls

2/17, 6:30 PM Lisa Hoppe on bass with Joanna Mattrey on viola and Lukas Akintaya on drums at the Bar Next Door

2/17, 7 PM  the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at 55 Bar

2/17, 7 PM catchy, anthemic, female-fronted janglerock band the Belle Curves followed by lyrically-fueled electric folk noir band Leland Sundries at LIC Bar

2/17, 7:30 PM vocal and piano group Mirror Visions Ensemble “explores The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing: letters of love and vengeance, reports from the North Pole, missives asking for money or forgiveness, including correspondence of Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, and Sullivan Ballou. Tom Cipullo provides indispensable instruction with a newly commissioned Guide to Letter Writing, along with works by Gwyneth Walker, Cole Porter, Wolfgang Erich Korngold, Dominick Argento, Richard Pearson Thomas and Christopher Berg” at the Sheen Center, $25/$15 for students

2/17, 730 PM dark, sardonic, brilliantly tuneful jazz pianist Danny Fox and his Trio at Mezzrow, $20

2/17, 8:30 PM deviously fun cabaret/chamber pop chanteuse Grace McLean at the basement room at the Rockwood, 412

2/17, 9 PM legendary dual-reedman George Braith– who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – leads his quartet at the Fat Cat

2/17, 9;30ish ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

2/18, 6:30 PM Helena Kay on saxophone with Kaisa Maensivu on bass and Angus Mason on drums at the Bar Next Door

2/18, 7 PM trumpeter Sonny Singh’s “revolutionary devotional Sikh music” project followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

2/18, 7 PM a Mannes College ensemble play works by Amy Beach, Florence Price, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Johanna Beyer, Rachel J. Peters, Joan Tower, Missy Mazzoli, Caroline Shaw, Valerie Coleman and Melba Liston at the first-floor New School auditorium at 63 5th Ave, free

2/18, 7 PM irrepressible bassist Moppa Elliott does triple duty: with gamely satirical faux-soul band Advancing on a Wild Pitch, then with the large improvisational ensemble Acceleration Due to Gravity and finally his aptly titled Unspeakable Garbage 80s cover band, apparent heirs to the Mostly Other People Do the Killing satire-jazz throne at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

2/18, 7:30/9:30 PM sax-and-organ grooves with Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith at the Jazz Standard $30

2/18, 7:30 PM violinist Mayuki Fukuhara leads a string quintet playing works by Mozart and Beethoven at at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, 122 W. 69th St, free

2/18-22, 8:30 PM darkly colorful, perennially interesting bassist Linda May Han Oh leads a series of ensembles at the Stone., $20 Choice pick: the 2/21 set with her quintet with Sara Serpa (voice) Jeremy Viner (tenor sax) Fabian Almazan (piano) Tom Rainey (drums)

2/19, noon up-and-coming pianist Nathan Lee plays works by Beethoven, Chris Rogrerson and Schumann at the Morgan Library, $25

2/19, 7 PM sharply lyrical southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner at LIC Bar

2/19 7:30 PM the Dance Clarinets big band led by JD Parran performs works by tuba cult hero Joseph Daley at Greenwich House Music School $15

2/19, 8 PM tenor sax improv titan George Garzone leads a sextet at Bar Bayeaux

2/19 8 PM Glad Irys – the new jazz quintet with Alex Weiss (saxophones and composition), Aaron Novik on clarinets, Dmitry Ishenko on bass, Joe Hertenstein on drums, and Yana Davydova on guitar at Erv’s on Beekman, 2122 Beekman Pl, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, B/D to Prospect Pk

2/19, 10 PM creepy noir chamber pop/murder ballad duo Charming Disaster at Pete’s

2/20, 1 PM Trio Entartete celebrate classical music suppressed by the Nazis, program tba at Elebash Hall, free

2/20, 7 PM high-voltage Texas Americana multi-instrumentalist Molly Venter and Goodnight Moonshine (from Red Molly) at the basement room at the Rockwood, $20

2/20, 7 PM drummer Bobby Previte, keyboardist Jamie Saft, iconic noise/jazz guitarist Nels Cline play the album release show for their new one at Nublu 151, $20

2/20-23, 7:30;/9:30 PM postbop sax vet Oliver Lake’s Trio 3 with a special guest each night at the Jazz Standard $30 . Choice picks: opening night with Vijay Iyer, closing night with Jason Moran

2/20, 7:30 PM high-voltage oldschool salsa dura with longtime Tito Puente sideman John “Dandy” Rodriguez’s “Dream Team” at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/20, 7:30 PM state-of-the-art postbop alto saxophonist Jaleel Shaw leads his band at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

2/20, 8 PM drummer Brian Shankar Adler‘s Fourth Dimension with Jonathan Goldberger: guitar, Santiago Leibson: piano, Rob Jost: bass followed by the funky, eclectic Sugartone Brass Band at Barbes

2/20, 8 PM pianist Bong-A Jung plays Moussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition plus works by Beethoven and Kapustin at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25

2/20, 8:30 PM Mad Larry (formerly of the psychedelic, energetic Bogmen) at 11th St Bar

2/20, 8 PM Sloan – the Canadian Guided by Voices – at Bowery Ballroom, $25 gen adm

2/20, 8 PM indie classical ensemble Alarm Will Sound and special guests play a “composer portrait” of Oscar Bettison at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

2/20 ,8:30 PM a klezmer dance party with Lauren Brody,clarinetist Ken Maltz & ace drummer Aaron Alexander at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

2/21, 7 PM  riveting, intense singer Hannah Fairchild’s explosive, lyrically brilliant noir punk power trio Hannah vs. the Many  at Venus in Furs, 990 Broadway, Bushwick, $10, J/M to Myrtle Ave

2/21, 7:15 (not 7:30 PM, mind you) microtonal, magical African guitar-and-drums jamband 75 Dollar Bill followed by ageless mostly-female CB’s era funk-punk/postrockers the Bush Tetras at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tic rec

2/21, 7:30 PM flute-violin/piano trio Sheng-Ching Hsu, Yueh-Tzu Lin, Mohamed Shams play works by Debussy, Shostakovich, Nino Rota and others at Scholes St Studios, $10

2/21, 8 PM dusky, rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed by Rana Santacruz– the Mexican Shane MacGowan, but without the booze if you can imagine that – at Barbes

2/21, 8 PM John Zorn’s noisy, hard-rocking Simulacrum at the Sultan Room. $20

2/21, 8 PM violin virtuoso Joshua Bell with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields play Beethoven: Overture to Coriolanus, Op. 62; Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1; Brahms: Symphony No. 4 at NJPAC in Newark, $30 tix avail

2/21, 8 PM Sexmob alto player Briggan Krauss with Keiskue Matsuno and Eli Rojas at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

2/21, 8 PM SaWee – violinist Sita Chay and percussionist Jihye Kim play their New Ritual project which “strives to embrace the wounds of current society and heal through ritualistic performance, incorporating Korean shaman rhythm, Korean mask dance movements, and contemporary languages created through violin,” at Flushing Town Hall, $18/$12 stud

2/21, 8ish atmospherically anthemic Indian-influenced spacerock band Humeysha at Elsewhere, $12. Wish they hadn’t autotuned the vocals on that record.

2/21, 8 PM a strangely excellent improvisational twinbill: bassist/multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily and uneasy female-fronted psychedelic abstract rock band Gold Dime at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

2/21-22, 8 PM cellist Charles Curtis and wind ensemble play a hypnotically circling Alvin Lucier world premiere with choreography from Abigail Levine at Issue Project Room, $25

2/21, 8:30 PM mixed metal: punkmetal band Thanatotic Desire, sludgily evil lo-fi instrumentalists Concrete Dream, then a pop band posing as metal and finally the ornately orchestral Deadly Nights at Lucky 13 Saloon ,$10

2/21, 8:30ish maybe the best twinbill ever at the Market Hotel: Monograms– who do as good a mid-80s Cure impression as any band alive – and ageless, gritty 90s sci-fi surf instrumentalists Man or Astroman, $20

2/21, midnight wild Mardi Gras Indian funk band  Cha Wa at Drom, $20 adv tix rec

2/21, midnight bass sax monster Stefen Zeniuk’s punk mambo crew the NY Fowl Harmonic  at Branded Saloon

2/22, 6 PM busker cartoon swing legends the Xylopholks’ vibraphonist Jonathan Singer followed at 8 by trumpeter Ben Holmes’ broodingly Middle Eastern/klezmer-tinged Naked Lore trio followed at 10 by ferocious, creepily enveloping, kinetic psychedelic tropicalia band Yotoco at Barbes

2/22, 7:30 PM legendary, risque, politically spot-on calypso icon the Mighty Sparrow at Ginny’s Supper Club, $30

2/22, 7:30 PM trumpet powerhouse Jeremy Pelt  and the best singing pianist (and the best piano-playing singer) in jazz, Champian Fulton in a rare duo performance, wow, at Mezzrow, $20

2/22 7:30 PM violin/piano duo Paul and Helen Huang play works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Ysaye and Saint-Saens iat Irving Auditorium, Irving Pl/17th St., $17

2/22. 8 PM popular, tuneful, lyrical Americana rockers Good Luck Mountain at Pete’s

2/22, 8 PM otherworldly, powerful Irish singer Clare Horgan at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

2/22, 9 PM honkytonk guitarslinger Danny Weiss and charming singer Mary Olive Smith’s oldschool C&W band Stillhouse Serenade at the Jalopy Tavern

2/22, 9 PM irrepressible multi-instrumentalist Joanna Sternberg and thoughtful, latin-inspired, occasionally political acoustic songwriter Miriam Elhajli at the Owl

2/22, 8 PM  Du.O – violinists Aimée Niemann and Charlotte Munn-Wood – play works by Scott Wollschleger, Emily Praetorius and Leah Asher at the Tenri Cultural Institute, $20

2/22, 10ish perennially entertaining first wave-style punks the Car Bomb Parade at the Cobra Club $10

2/22, 10ish oldschool late 70sish metal band Last Pharaoh at Lucky 13 Saloon, $10

2/22, 10:30 PM propulsive, jazz-tinged dreampop band the Mattson 2 at Rough Trade, $17

2/23, 1 PM the Afro-Polks Allstars (Jerome Harris and Anders Nilsson on guitars, Chulo Gatewood on bass and Michek Schejbal on drums) at Neir’s Tavern, 87-48 78th Street, Woodhaven

2/23, 3 PM fiery klezmer fiddler and brilliant composer Alicia Svigals and pianist Donald Sosin play a live score to the 1923 silent film The Ancient Law, “ about a rabbi’s son who runs away to become an actor and is disowned by his father. Digitally restored in 2017, it paints a complex portrait of the tension between tradition and modernity, and is an outstanding example of the creativity of Jewish filmmakers in 1920s Germany,” at Temple Ansche Chesed, 251 W 100th St, free, res req

2/23, 3 PM indie classical ensemble Sandbox Percussion play works by Natalie Dietterich, Steve Reich, Juri Seo, Brendan Randall – Myers and Amy Beth Kirsten at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, Park Slope, any train to Grand Army Plz, sugg don

2/23, 5 PM the Momenta Quartet play works by Japanese composers Yu Kuwabara:, Tomoko Fukui: Takeo Hoshiya: Chiku Komiya: Yuka Shibuya: Jummei Suzuki very rarely performed here including some US premieres at Scandinavia House, $20/$15 stud/srs

2/23, 5 PM the Fair Trade Trio play works by Faure, Schnittke and Jessica Meyer at Our Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Avenue (one block west of Broadway at 189th Street), free

2/23, 5 PM Kemp Jernigan, oboe; Remy Taghavi, bassoon; Yelena Grinberg, piano play works by Beethoven, Schumann, Saint-Saens and Poulenc at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St.,deets here

2/23, 6 PM creepy, wickedly lyrical, harmony-driven noir chamber pop/murder ballad duo Charming Disaster at a secret Staten Island house concert, email for deets/location

2/23, 6ish haunting folk noir/Americana songwriter Emily Frembgen at LIC Bar

2/23, 7 PM singers Lucy Dhegrae and Ariadne Greif premiere new work from Sheree Clement with “one foot in contemporary music and the other in performance art” at Flushing Town Hall, free w/rsvp

2/23, 8 PM brilliant keyboardist Dov Manski and singer Kristen Slipp (Dirty Projectors) plus Wendy Eisenberg’s hardcore trio Editrix at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15/$10 stud

2/23, 8:30 PM eclectic, pensive, purposeful original acoustic Americana songwriter Ruby Landen at Pete’s

2/24, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, vivid, Tom Waits-influenced acoustic storyteller Lara Ewen at the small room at the Rockwood

2/24, 7:30 PM Americana violin luminary Mark O’Connor and the Publiquartet play improvisations on Dvořák – String Quartet No. 12 in F Major (“American”) and O’Connor – Selections from String Quartet No. 3 (“Old Time”) at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free

2/24-25, 8:30 PM Ana Popovic – the Serbian Stevie Ray Vaughan – at Iridium, $30 seats avail

2/24, 9 PM lyrical, latin-tinged pianist Helen Sung leads her trio at Bar Lunatico

2/25, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, violinist Austin Wulliman & pianist Conrad Tao at the Miller Theatre, free

2/25. 6 PM a Mannes College ensemble plays works by Beethoven, Minjoo Kim, Jihwan Yoon, Scott Fish and Adam Shirkin at the German UN Consulate, 871 UN Plaza, free, ID REQUIRED,security is very tight

2/25-26, 7:30/9:30 PM one of this era’s most vividly bustling, entertaining big bands, Miho Hazama & M-Unit at the Jazz Standard, $30

2/25, 7:30 PM two MSM choirs join the MSM Chamber Sinfonia for an evening of Bach and Schubert under the baton of Kent Tritle at Niedorf Hall at Manhattan School of Music, 130 Claremont Ave north of 122nd St., free

2/25, 7:30 PM the Vienna Piano Trio play Beethoven’s Archduke Trio plus works by Haydn and Brahms at the 92nd St Y, $35

2/25, 7:30 PM this era’s most fearlessly relevant, hard-hitting tenor saxophonist, JD Allen leads his trio followed at 10:30 by postbop trumpeter Josh Evans leading his quartet at Smalls

2/25. 8 PM Trio Emerillon play new works by Philippe Manoury, Félix-Antoine Coutu, Kévin Gironnay for bass clarinet, violin, piano at the Mise-En Place, 341 Calyer St. in Greenpoint, free

2/25, 8 PM a launch party for poet Oliver Baer’s twisted new epistolary novel Letters to the Editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine at Otto’s

2/25, 8 PM the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola perform rarely staged choral music by Verdi, Rossini, Palestrina, and Ildebrando Pizzetti, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola (980 Park Ave), $25 tix aail

2/25 8 PM Palestinian kanun virtuoso & composer Firas Zreik at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St at Washington, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

2/25-3/1, 8:30/10 PM darkly visionary jazz chanteuse/composer Cecile McLorin Salvant leads her quintet at the Vanguard, $35

2/25, 8:30 PM lyrically intense avant garde chanteuse Jane LeCroy‘s cello rock band the Icebergs at Pete’s

2/25-28, 8:30 PM transgressively funny postbop saxophonist Jon Irabagon leads a series of ensembles at the Stone., $20 Choice pick: opening night with his expaned 3Dom Quartet: Tim Hagans (trumpet) Joe Fonda (bass) Mark Helias (bass, clarinet) Barry Altschul (drums) Uri Caine (piano)

2/25, 9 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at Skinny Dennis. 2/29 ostensibly at 11 AM they’re at at Bar Chord

2/26-27. 7:30/9:30 PM a rare NYC performance by Buenos Aires’ Tango Jazz Quartet at Minton’s, $20 at the bar

2/26, 7:30 PM purist retro Americana fretwork: guitarist Jake Sanders and Brain Cloud multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman at the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St. in Gowanus,  $15

2/26, 8 PM singer Dida Pelled salutes obscure and cult favorite women songwriters including Connie Converse, Elizabeth Cotten, Molly Drake, Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega at Barbes

2/26, 8 PM poignantly lyrical, eclectic pianist Marta Sanchez leads her quintet at Bar Bayeaux

2/26, 8 PM multidisciplinary singer Mary Prescott‘s Loup Lunaire project explores the wolf mother archetype at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

2/26, 8ish first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall and his killer band at Berlin $tba

2/26, 8ish Dana Schechter’s hauntingly cinematic slowcore/art-rock project Insect Ark play the album release show for their new one at St. Vitus, $10

2/26, 8:30 PM pianist Conrad Tao plays Frederic Rzewski’s thorny, defiant protest classical suite “The People, United” at Spectrum, $15

2/27, 7ish sprawling, psychedelic abstract rock band Loosie followed by snidely satirical new wave/80s rock spoofers Office Culture at the Sultan Room, $10

2/27, 7 PM prime territory for deep listening; Shots perform their ‘” amalgam of barely-there object rustling—clanging metal, broken glass, running water, tempered feedback, timid drumming and strumming—could be mistaken for distracted dishwashing, a rusted fence squeaking in the wind, a raccoon in your shed” at Blank Forms, 468 Grand Ave. #3D, Ft. Greene, C to Clinton-Washington,, $15

2/27, 7 PM in reverse order at Spectrum : Marbleous (World Inferno violinist Jeff Young + Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka), violinist Leah Asher, improvisational bassist Jason Anastasoff, $15

2/27, 7:30 PM klezmer redman  Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket plays the Music of Mrs. Maisel with Special Guest Eleanor Reissaat City Vineyard, $25

2/27, 7:30 PM, repeating 2/29 at 8 the NY Philharmonic play Strauss’ Domestic Symphony plus the US premiere of Jörg Widmann’s dystopic Babylon Suite, $32 tix avail

2/27, 7:30 PM intense, atmospheric chanteuse Imani Uzuri and ensemble “share an intimate chamber concert of compositions from her various works for voice, strings, flute and piano” at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/27, 7:30 PM pianist Per Tengstrand and Opus 21 play the Grieg Piano Concerto at Scandinavia House,, $25

2/27, 7:30/9:30 PM cutting-edge, fearlessly woke postbop jazz powerhouse the Curtis Bros. at the Jazz Gallery, $20

2/27, 7:30 PM wild Irish acoustic jamband Jigjam at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under, $30 otherwise

2/27, 7:30 PM Popebama (saxophonists Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan) followed by eclectic indie classical piano trio Bearthoven playing a program tba at the Poisson rouge, $15 adv tix rec

2/27, 8 PM saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos‘s “ever-evolving and mind-frying CP Unit” at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

2/27,. 8 PM multistylistic, lyrical, improvisational cellist Rufus Cappodocia solo at Barbes

2/27, 8 PM violinist Claudia Chopek’s playfully eclectic art-rock instrumental band Echo of the Ghost and high-voltage, violin-driven art-rock/metal band Stratospheerius at Arene’s, $10

2/27, 8 PM deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. play Johnny Cash songs at Ottos

2/27. 8 PM drummer Chase Kuesel and bassist Hannah Marks play their tunes on a split bill. Chase’s trio features Glenn Zaleski on piano. Hannah’s group has Lex Korten on the 88s, at Scholes St Studios,

2/27, 8:30 PM edgy Middle Eastern-inspired alto saxophonist Uri Gurvich with Ed Perez on bass and Francisco Mela on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12

2/27, 8:30 PM klezmer party time: the New York Simcha Heritage Ensemble w/ trumpter Jordan Hirsch at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

2/27, 9 PM the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Bar Lunatico

2/27, 9:30ish Lutkie plays her disoriently pulsing electronic noise/soundscapes followed by noisy, unpredictably intense female-fronted guitar/drums/organ band Parlor Walls playing the album release show for their new one at uinon Pool, $10

2/27,10ish Creatures – bass sax luminary Stefan Zeniuk’s band with Todd Perlmutter and Dave Steele – play “instrumental bari-sax driven music for animals” at Halyards, 406 3rd Ave, in Gowanus, R/F to 9th St/4th Ave

2/28, 5:30 PM tuneful original delta blues and acoustic Americana from guitarist Jon LaDeau at the American Folk Art Museum

2/28, 7 PM cellist Steven Isserlis and ensemble play a program tba at the Greene Space, $25

2/28, 7:30 PM the fantastic Palestinian-based Western-Eastern Divan Orchestra play works by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Brahms and Abraham Attahir at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, expensive, $38 tix avail but could be worth it

2/28 7;30 PM the Pathos Trio – percussion and piano – play works by Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Finola Merivale, Evan Chapman, Alyssa Weinberg and Alan Hankers at Arete Gallery, $15

2/28, 8 PM Balkan chanteuse Jenny Luna‘s haunting, traditional Turkish band Dolunay followed at 10 by slinky, hypnotic percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at Barbes

2/28, 8:30 PM pensive rainy-day gothic chamber pop cult faves the Ocean Blue at the Bell House, $20 gen adm

2/28, 10 PM ferocious psychedelic guitarist Debra Devi at the Fox & Crow, 594 Palisade, Jersey City Heights, free

2/28, midnight sludgecore/stoner metal band Iron Rider at Footlight Bar, $10

2/29 Hayes Carll at City Vineyard is sold out – no surprise

2/29, 4 PM moody lo-fi keyboardist/singer Anni Rossi followed by colorful, Bowie-esque female-fronted glamrockers at Pete’s

2/29, 6 PM busker cartoon swing legends the Xylopholks’ vibraphonist Jonathan Singer followed by Boston street brass band Kotoko Brass and at 10;30  by Spanglish Fly celebrating 10 years of latin soul madness at Barbes

2/29, 6 PM charming retro swing harmony women the New York Nightingales & the New Retro Orchestra at Club Bonafide ,$20

2/29, 7 PM ballet score pianist Cristina Spinei leads a chamber qjintet at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

2/29, 7:30 PM a rare twinbill of two of the greatest composer-keyboardists of this century: hauntingly cinematic Kelly Moran and the even darker Missy Mazzoli. “Missy will perform her own works solo and with violinist Olivia De Prato, and Kelly will perform a solo set of songs from her recent album Ultraviolet.” at Merkin Concert Hall, $25

2/29, 8 PM the New York City Master Chorale sing David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion and other works at Church of the Holy Apostles (296 9th Ave south of 29th), $25/18 and under free

2/29, 8 PM intense avant garde singer Holland Andrews leads a vocal-clarinet duo at Issue Project Room, sug don

2/29, 8 PM Laura Thompson, violin/Medina, clarinet/Kristin Samadi, piano perform works by Milhaud, Khatchaturian, and Bartok at Arete Gallery, $tba

2/29, 8 PM amusingly satirical folksinger Barry Oreck followed by bluesily populist, plainspoken songwriter Judy Gorman at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

2/29. 8 PM pyrotechnic klezmer clarinetist and Dave Tarras protege Michael Winograd and band and hypnotically percussive Afro-Colombian trance/dance bandleader Betsayda Machado y Parranda El Clavo at Flushing Town Hal, $18/$12 stud/free for 19 and under w/NYC school ID

2/29, 8:30 PM the Brooklyn Wind Quintet: Michel Gentile (flute) Katie Scheele (oboe) Mike McGinnis (clarinet) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Nathan Koci (french horn) at the Stone at the New School, $20

2/29, 9 PM  one of the great saxophonists in the history of ska, Dave Hillyard and his quintet with the ferociously good Steve Antonakos on guitar at An Beal Bocht Cafe, 445 West 238th St, 5 blocks from the 1 train at 238th St.

2/29, 9 PM ageless indie powerpop icons the Figgs at Berlin, $15

2/29, 9 PM haunting French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares’ Ajoyo project with singer Sarah E. Charles at Bar Lunatico

2/29, 11 PM well-loved, riff-rocking Boston fourth-wave garage rockers Muck & the Mires  followed by ferocious, twin guitar-fueled, Radio Birdman-esque psychedelic punks the Electric Mess at Desmond’s, no joke

2/29, 11 PM playful, kinetic parlor pop band Orly Bendavid & the Mona Dahls at Pete’s

3/5, 7:30 PM the Argus Quartet play a program tba at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/5, 8 PM the Orchestra of St. Luke”s play a lavish, all-Beethoven program: Leonore Overture No. 2; Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), Op. 112; the Choral Fantasy, Op. 80; Mass in C Major, Op. 86at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $30 seats avail, wow

3/5 10 PM Leya – harpist/vocalist Marilu Donovan and violinist/vocalist Adam Markiewicz – play the album release show for their relentlessly uneasy new one at Trevorshaus, 1186 Broadway, Bushwick, $15

3/7, 8 PM darkly lyrical psychedelic pop songwriter Jennifer Hall at Petes

3/11-12, 8 PM first-wave British new wave band Wire at the Music Hll of Williamsburg, $30 gen adm but will sell out

3/14, 7 PM organist Gail Archer plays works by women composers Joan Tower, Mary Howe, Jennifer Higdon, Nadia Boulanger at St. John Nepomucene Church, 411 E 69th St, (1st/York), free

3/17, 7 PM the Ekstasis Duo – cellist Natasha Farni and pianist Eliran Avni – play a program tba at Revelation Gallery, 224 Waverly Pl, $20

3/19, 7:30 PM lyrically provocative mashups of Ethiopiques, parlor pop, hard funk and psychedelia with Meklit at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/20, 7:30 PM salsa flutist Andrea Brachfeld y Su Charanga at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/28, 8 PM flamenco crooner Rancapino Chico – “torchbearer of flamenco puro and heir to the cantes of Cadiz” – at Roulette, $30

3/31, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, the new generation’s most eclectic jazz harpist, Brandee Younger & bassist Dezron Douglas at the Miller Theatre, free

4/2, 7:30 PM pianist Gabriele Baldocci plays a program tba at St. Johns Church, 218 W 11th St.,

4/4 8 PM Yemeni oudist Abdulrahman Al-Akhfash with mesmerizing Omani oudist/singer Amal Waqar and multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil at Roulette, $30

4/13. 7;30 PM pianist Vasily Primakov plays sonatas by Franck and Chopin at St. Johns Church, 218 W 11th St.,

4/14 drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, indie classical supergroup the Hands Free – James Moore, guitar & banjo; Caroline Shaw, violin Eleonore Oppenheim, bass; Nathan Koci, accordionat the Miller Theatre, free

4/18, 8 PM haunting tanbour virtuoso Ali Akbar Moradi with ubiquitous Iranian percussionist Pejman Hadadi, the innovative at Roulette, $30

4/24, 8 PM Debapriya Adhikary and Samanwaya Sarkar play a rare duet with vocal and sitar at Roulette, $30

4/25, 8 PM oudist Brahim Frigbane and sintir player Hassan Hakmoun duel it out at Roulette, $30

4/28, 7 PM violinist Asi Matathias and pianist Matthew Graybil play works by Vitali, Beethoven and Saint-Saens at Revelation Gallery, 224 Waverly Pl, $20

5/19. 7 PM pianist Asiya Korepanova leads a trio playing works by Tschaikovskky and a trio version of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 at Revelation Gallery, 224 Waverly Pl, $20

Golden Fest: Best New York Concert of Whatever Year You Can Remember

It was early, a little before six, upstairs in the Rainbow Room Saturday night at the big finale to this year’s Golden Fest. A young mom with bangs in a simple black top and pants swung her daughter by the wrists. The two pretty much had the whole dance floor to themselves, and the little kid was relishing the attention. A friend of her mom’s joined them and took over the swinging.

Then the little girl decided she wanted to show off her dance moves – and schooled the two adults in how to get down to an edgy minor-key Balkan tune, in 7/4 time. Over the course of the next eight hours or so, she wouldn”t be the only preschooler who had those kind of moves down cold.

Many of those kids’ parents, or the kids themselves, are alumni of the annual Balkan Camp immortalized as the idyllic setting of Josephine Decker’s horror film Butter on the Latch. It seems like a great place to learn Romany dances or sharpen your chops on the accordion, or zurla, or gadulka. But not everyone who goes to Golden Fest every year goes to Balkan Camp, or has roots in the old country, or in Eastern European music. They just like minor keys, and chromatics, and what a lot of western musicans would call weird tempos (and eating and drinking too – there’s lots of both). Over the course of two nights every January, this is New York’s most entertaining music festival, year after year. At the risk of being ridiculously redundant, you’ll see this on the best concerts of 2020 page here at the end of the year.

The little girl, her mom and her friend were dancing to the sounds of Rodyna (which, appropriately, means “family”). That particular song had a rustic northern Greek or Macedonian sound to it, the women in the band singing stark and low, bouzouki player Joseph Castelli adding a bristling edge. A floor below, the Navatman Music Collective were joining voices in leaping, precise harmony throughout an ancient Indian carnatic melody.

Indian choral music at a Balkan music festival – with harmonies, no less? Sure. Over the years, Golden Fest has expanded beyond Serbian and Romany sounds to embrace music from all over: Egypt, Spain, and now, India. That’s where Romany music started, anyway. As the members of New York’s original Balkan brass band Zlatne Uste – who originated the festival, and were the centerpiece of the Friday night edition – view it, it’s all just good music.

To hell with the overcrowded, touristy Copacabana – this is the real Globalfest.

When careening Russian Romany dance band Romashka took the stage at about half past six, the big ballroom was pretty empty. As frontwoman Inna Barmash and violinist Jake Shulman-Ment took a couple of breathtaking cadenzas, was this going to be the year nobody came to Golden Fest?

Ha. About half an hour later, just in time for everybody to hear guitarist Jay Vilnai slink his way through an eerie, pointillistic solo, it was as if the floodgates broke and half of Brooklyn busted through the doors. In what seemed like less than five minutes, it was impossible to get through the expanding circles of line dancers. This party had a plan.

To the extent that you can bring a plan to it, anyway. Much as Golden Fest is one-stop shopping, a way to discover a couple dozen great new bands every year, there comes a point where Plan A and Plan B go out the window and you just have to go with the flow. In an age where social media is atomizing and distancing everyone from their friends, it’s hard to think of a more crazily entertaining way to reconnect with people you haven’t seen in months.

So this year’s agenda – to hang on the dance floor and catch as many of the headliners as possible, like a lot of people do – didn’t last long. Until the first distractions came into view, it was a lot of fun to discover Orchester Praževica, their surfy guitar and shapeshifting dance tunes from the southern side of the Danube. After them, it seemed that Slavic Soul Party spent as much time off the stage, in the middle of the floor surrounded by the circling hordes, as they did onstage. This time they didn’t do the Ellington, or much of the hip-hop stuff, as they’ve played in years past here; this was as close to traditional as this untraditional brass band gets.

While the Elem All-Stars were keeping the dancers going with their tight, purposeful Romany tunes, the first of the distractions led to some drinking – at Golden Fest, you really have to pace yourself – and a side trip to the atrium to see Wind of Anatolia playing their achingly gorgeous, lush mix of Turkish folk themes and cinematic originals.

The decision to give Danish klezmer band Mames Babagenush the main stage paid off mightily. They’d just played a bunch of relatively intimate Manhattan club dates the past weekend, so this was their chance to use the big PA and really rock the house, and their energy was through the roof, particularly frontman/clarinetist Emil Goldschmidt. Upstairs, legendary Armenian-American multi-reedman Souren Baronian and his band weren’t as loud but were just as mesmerizing, the bandleader’s burbling, microtonal sax and duduk matched by oudist Adam Good and bassist Michael Brown’s slinky riffage.

Gauging the most opportune moment to join the food line (Golden Fest has a buffet starting at around 10) was more of a challenge this year – but so what, that only opened up the door for more music. The first-floor Chopin Room is where most of the wildest bands on the bill play, whether onstage or, like more and more of them seem to do, under the big chandelier. Representing Brooklyn for the umpteenth year in a row, Raya Brass Band scorched and blasted through one pulsing, minor-key original after another. Greek Judas‘ set of searing heavy metal versions of classic Greek rembetiko gangster anthems from the 20s through the 50s had some people scratching their heads at first, but by the time they hit their second song, the room was packed once again. One of the security guys couldn’t resist giving the group the devils-horns salute and joined the dancers on the edge. Frontman Quince Marcum has never sung with more Athenian fury than he did at this show; Good, meanwhile, had put on a mask, put down his oud and strapped on a Strat.

By the time midnight struck, Lyuti Chushki – Bulgarian for “Red Hot Chili Peppers” – were keeping the dancers twirling in the ballroom, the food was down to babagenoush, pitas and an irresistible but short-lived spread of ajjar (a sort of Turkish red pepper hummous). In the top-floor room, Zisl Slepovitch (hotshot clarinetist the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof) and his similarly sizzling klezmer band Litvakus were leaping to the top of their respective registers for a lickety-split, nonstop series of what could have been traditional Ukrainian tunes but were probably originals.

By one in the morning, if you’ve done things right, this is where the booze finally starts to kick in and the dilemma of where to go really hits home. The allstar Amerike Klezmer Brass in the ballroom, Klezmatics reedman Matt Darriau‘s five-piece Paradox Trio downstairs, or singer Jenny Luna’s haunting Turkish ensemble Dolunay? If you last any longer, you might discover that the calm, thoughtful-looking individual seated next to you during one of the early sets is actually a member of What Cheer? Brigade, the feral, gargantuan street band who took over both the stage and the dance floor to close the night. Meanwhile, there was a much quieter Turkish quintet still going strong on the topmost floor. You want to dance? Great. You want to chill? Golden Fest has you covered. Looking forward to 2021.

Partying Around New York with Mames Babegenush

Danish klezmer band Mames Babegenush played Drom Friday night at around midnight. Saturday they were at Mehanata, the notorious Lower East Side Bulgarian bar, until the wee hours. Sunday they played an afternoon show in the basement of Gustavus Adolphus Church in Gramercy, then took the party a few blocks north to the Carlton Arms Hotel. They’d played the church in the past, beginning with the day after the honcho there had seen them late one Saturday night at the old Zebulon in Williamsburg – and invited them to play the next day. And they took that gig. Fatigue and alcohol do not seem to affect these guys at all.

Bracing Jewish minor-key folk dances are the loosely connecting thread among the band’s often exhilarating catalog of originals and popular standards from throughout Eastern Europe, Spain, the Middle East and the Balkans. Throughout about three hours of music yesterday, there were all sorts of wry conversations, lots of sparring, spine-tingling solos and a couple of sprints to the finish line. One of the best of the solos was a slinky, bristling chromatic series of climbs and descents, using a horn voicing, and played by bassist Andreas Mollerhoj. Bass solos are usually a bad idea; this guy got all of two throughout the afternoon and left you wanting more.

One of this band’s most distinctively unorthodox features is drummer Morten Aero’s kit. He kept a steady thud going with his right foot on a kickdrum, a snare and hi-hat set up to his left where he’d rattle off vaudevillian rimshots, often using his hands for hypnotic Middle Eastern beats. Straight in front of him was a tsmibl, the Ukrainian Jewish zither that may be the forerunner of both the Hungarian cimbalom and the Iraqi santoor. As he hammered the strings, they seemed both a little muted and a hair sharp, consistently across the scale, adding a subtle and absolutely otherworldly edge, especially in the music’s quieter moments.

Clarinetist and bandleader Emil Goldschmidt matched precision to dynamics, whether soloing or harmonizing with the sax and flugelhorn. Lukas Bjorn Rande shifted between a welcome, smoky grit on tenor sax and a gorgeously plaintive tone on alto, obviously influenced by the great Bulgarian player Yuri Yunakov, a guy he’d had the good fortune to study with. On flugelhorn, Bo Rande reached for the rafters with imploring, searing cadenzas and a handful of slithery, electrifying trills, often matched by accordionist Nikolai Kornerup.

Throughout the set, influences from Romanian brass music, to Andalucian balladry, Turkish laments, suspenseful Ukrainian horas and relentlessly flurrying Greek hill country music filtered through the songs, seldom staying in one place for long. Maybe the greatest thing of all about Jewish music is that it’s so well-traveled, and this group completely get that. The only weird thing was that nobody other than the band members were on their feet dancing (although this generation’s most dangerous American klezmer clarinetist, Michael Winograd, was in the house and bouncing in his seat). Mames Babegenush are at Golden Fest this coming Saturday night, Jan 18 at 8:55 PM (they run a tight ship there) in the big ballroom, among dozens of similarly high-voltage bands from across the Balkans, Mediterranean and Middle East.

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, you might want to bookmark this page and check back regularly.

If you’re leaving your hood, don’t get stuck waiting for a train that never comes, make sure you check the MTA delays and out-of-service page for service cancellations and malfunctions, considering how unreliable the subway is at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you discovered here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar:

Daily in January, 2-5 PM Aki Onda restages radical Filipino composer José Maceda’s Ugnayan, “an expansive audience participatory work for radio which premiered at 6 PM on New Year’s Day, 1974. Arguably the most ambitious, provocative, and controversial work in his repertoire, the fifty-one-minute-long piece consisted of twenty separate tracks, each to be played on a different public radio frequency simultaneously, producing a musical atmosphere at the scale of the city. All thirty-seven radio stations in the metropolitan Manila area turned over their channel for Maceda’s sound diffusion, with some tracks playing from multiple stations. Millions of listeners tuned in. Manila’s parks, plazas, and street corners were converted into what the composer called “Ugnayan Centers”—142 locations in all. In one of the biggest, 15,000 people congregated, their personal radios creating a stunningly knotted mass of sounds. In addition to the 20 transmitters and 20 radios installed at the gallery, visitors are encouraged to bring their own FM transistor radios and contribute to the installation by tuning into one of the transmitting frequencies,” at the Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! This winter’s agenda is Childhood Classics: A series of three evenings featuring the music we were forced to play – music composed expressly for children, Bach to Kurtag, like it or not, and conversation about that experience, about the piano, and about ongoing musical growth…4 PM on January 19, February 16, and March 15, sug don, email for details/address

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of tropical bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.. Brain Cloud are also playing their 10th anniversary show on Nov 22 at 9 PM at the Jalopy for $20

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $35 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays starting at 9:30 PM Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play two sets at Union Pool. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically woke, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the usual lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests. Sizzling guitarist Binky Griptite – Sharon Jones’ lead player – is also often there.

Tuesdays at 9 PM, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (check the club calendar), $10 cover.

Wednesdays at 9ish the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Most Thursdays at 8:30, the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays at 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Saturdays in January the only 4 PM free concert at Bargemusic; is on 1/4.  These are usually weekly and typically feature solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Saturdays in January, 6 PM wildly eclectic, edgy,lyrical soul/jazz cellist/singer Marika Hughes at Barbes

Most Sundays at 5:15 PM starting in late September, a free recital on the amazing, powerful, dynamic new organ at St. Thomas Church at 5th Ave and 53rd St. featuring some of the world’s greatest organists. The space is magnificent and the music usually is too. Right now the church fathers are programming pretty much everybody who used to work here and play the mighty old Aeolian-Skinner organ that finally had to be replaced. Check the concert calendar for details.

Sundays in January at 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of groups at the Bar Next Door

Sundays at 9:30 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel leads his band at Barbes – check the club calendar just to make sure.

1/1-2 7:30 PM the core of the early 90s Smalls scene: Peter Bernstein (guitar), Aaron Goldberg (piano), Omer Avital (bass) at Mezzrow, $20

1/1, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10

1/1, 9 PM sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece and group at the Fat Cat

1/2, 7 PM poignant, nuanced jazz singer Amy Cervini leads her quartet at 55 Bar

1/2, 7:30 PM ferocious rising star saxophonist Chet Doxas leads a trio at Smalls

1/2, 7:30 PM Alicia Olatuja at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised. The soul belter has been super popular since singing at the second Obama inauguration. Opinions vary on  the flash vs. substance factor

1/2-5, 7:30/9:30 PM purist trumpeter Sean Jones leads his acoustic “electric quartet” at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/2, 8 PM oldschool latin soul and upbeat Americana with Nikki and the Human Element at Otto’s

1/2. 8 PM ish grim slowcore band Cathari at St. Vitus, $10

1/2, 8 PM the Underground Spiritual Ground, a new supergroup and Anbessa Orchestra spinoff exploring the connection between African-American spirituals, Ethiopian and Caribbean music followed by purposefully atmospheric indie classical guitarist Gyan Riley at Barbes

1/2. 8:30 PM sitarist Galen Passen and band mash up Celtic and Indian themes at the Jalopy, $15

1/2. 8:30 ish psychedelic supergroup the Elgin Marbles feat. members of Love Camp 7, Dervisi and Peter Stampfel’s jug band at Troost

1/2-5, 8:30 PM a Herbie Nichols 100th bday celebration at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the 1/5 show with Roswell Rudd’s Trombone Tribe plays Herbie Nichols with Deborah Weisz, Josh Roseman, Art Baron, Steve Swell (trombones) Bob Stewart (tuba) Steven Bernstein (conductor, trumpet)

1/2, 10 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin is very busy early this month. He’s at the Fat Cat tonight, then back here on 1/7 at 7 followed at 9 by exploratory, brassy salsa dura band La Sonora Nuyorkina, then back on 1/14 at 7. He’s also at Smalls 1/3-4 at 7:30 PM where he’s followed at 10:30 by  sizzling postbop saxophonist Mike DiRubbo’s quartet with Brian Charette on organ.

1/3, 7:30 PM composers Fiona Gillespie and Elliot Cole premiere their new suite, a modern adaptation of the 18th-century Scottish ballad Tam Lin at 1 Rivington St., $15

1/3-4, 8 PM, repeating 1/4 also at 2 PM and 1/7 at 7:30 PM th NY Philharmonic play works by Mozart, Haydn and Respighi, $34 tix avail

1/3,  8 PM playfully lyrical, fearlessly political superduo Kill Henry Sugar – guitar/banjo mastermind Erik Della Penna and drummer Dean Sharenow – followed at 10 by Rana Santacruz – the Mexican Shane MacGowan, but without the booze if you can imagine that – at Barbes

1/3, 8 PM intense, soaring harmonium player/singer Elana Low at Branded Saloon

1/3, 8 PM the NJ Symphony Orchestra  with pianist Inon Barnatan play Smetana’s The Moldau, Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto and excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet at NJPAC in Newark, $20 tix avail

1/3, 8:30 PM hard-driving postbop tenor saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins‘ Wire quartet at Seeds, $15

1/3. 9 PM  moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly at the small room at the Rockwood. Fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/roadhouse jamband Lizzie & the Makers  are just down the block at 10 at the big room

1/3. 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with the David Gibson/Jared Gold Hammond B3 organ band at the Fat Cat

1/4, 2:30 PM the NY Classical Players perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132 at the NYPL for the Performing Arts out back of Lincoln Center free

1/4, 6 PM wildly eclectic, edgy, lyrical soul/jazz cellist/singer Marika Hughes followed at 8 by the furry-suited, oldtimey jazz Xylopholks and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

1/4, 7:30 PM purposeful Chicago-style blues guitarslinger Bobby Radcliff – lots of notes but none of them wasted – at Terra Blues

1/4, 8 PM trippy, dubby roots reggae and ska sounds with Avo & Skalopy at the Jalopy Tavern

1/4, 8 PM darkly lyrical psychedelic pop songwriter Jennifer Hall at the Parkside

1/4-5, 8 PM playwright Sarah Krasnow and bassist James IIgenfritz at Honey’s, 93 Scott Ave, Bushwick, L to Jefferson St., $10

1/4, 9 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s with wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers , at 10 exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets, at 11 ageless, jangly, purist NY surf rock originals the Supertones

1/4, 9 PM impassioned, politically fearless soul/blues singer Kemp Harris and band at the big room at the Rockwood, $20

1/4, 8:30 PM the Delorean Sisters – who do funny oldtimey acoustic covers of cheesy 80s pop songs – at Freddy’s

1/4, 9ish  slinky, hypnotic, percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at the Owl

1/4, 9ish pummeling oldschool Brit-style punk band Krimewatch plus shrieky, sludgy noise-doom band Skourge at St. Vitus, $12

1/4, 10:30 PM Los Cumpleanos – with Nestor Gomez – vox/percussion; Lautaro Burgos – drums; Eric Lane – keyboards; Alex Asher – trombone and others playing trippy, dubwise tropical psychedelia, and the latin/Balkan/New Orleans-tinged Underground Horns at Drom, $10\

1/5, 2 PM pianist Marika Bournaki plays Beethoven sonatas including the Hammerklavier at Bargemusic, $35/$30 sr/$20stud

1/5, 3 PM bassist Jeremy McCoy and pianist Aurelia Mika Chang perform works by Domenico Dragonetti, Reinhold Gliere, Arni Egilsson, and Vilmos Montag at St Pauls Chapel downtown, free, reception to follow

1/5, 4 PM  the intense, historically inspired oldtime blues/gospel Piedmont Blūz string band at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $10

1/5, 5:30 PM brilliant pianist Emilio Solla’s Tango Jazz Orchestra at Birdland, $30 gen adm. Followed at 9;30 (separate $30 adm) by the fearlessly relevant, toweringly intense Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, who are also back here on 1/19

1/5. 7ish metalcore shredders Steel Bearing Hand, the even faster death metal Vomit Forth and the murkier Frozen Soul at St. Vitus, $12

1/5, 7 PM Middle Eastern-inspired cellist Ian Maksin at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

1/5, 7 PM Wit & Daniel: – a new duo project featuring atmospheric jazz guitarist, Prawit Siriwat, and improvising bassist, Daniel Durst – plus the similarly ambient Matt Forker, guitar and compositions; Lesley Mok, drums; Jonah Wolfson, drums; Lisa Hoppe, bass; David Acevedo, trumpet; Gabe Fraivillig, trombone and Sonya Belaya at Spectrum, $15

1/5, 8 PM Monograms – who do as good a mid-80s Cure impression as any band alive – at Alphaville, $10

1/5, 8 PM eclectic jazz bassist Or Bareket leads his quartet at Seeds, $15

1/5, 8 PM perennially tuneful, pensively lyrical Americana janglerocker Mike Ferrio of Tandy and Good Luck Mountain at 11th St. Bar

1/5, 8:30ish satirical rock night: Chris Root‘s Lulu Temple Motor Unit (a Shriner joke) followed by gonzo storyteller Mike Edison‘s band which often features Jon Spencer on lead guitar

1/5, 8:30ish  cinematic guitarist Pat Irwin and boisterous swing/ska trombonist J. Walter Hawkes do their ambient thing at Troost

1/6, 7 PM sound artists including the ambient Ginny Benson, Dani Dobkin, and bassist Bernd Klug, at the Fridman Gallery 169 Bowery, $20

1/6, 7:30 PM the Parker Quartet with clarinetist Anthony McGill, clarinet play works by Mozart, Salonen and Shostakovich’s twistedly hilarious String Quartet No. 9 at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free

1/6-8, 8:30 PM the powerfully resonant multimedia concert Broken Silence with“Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Dan Joseph, Dev Ray and Alex Lahoski (ebow steel string acoustic guitars) and Craig Shepard (narrator) “present music supporting listeners to engage with text drawn from court testimony connected with the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church:” a tthe DiMenna Center, The point is to create a sonically healing space. No charge for admission. Seating is limited rsvp req 

1/6, 8:30 PM cutting-edge vibraphonist Joel Ross plays a rare trio show at Seeds, $15

1/6, 9ish new Brookliyn honkytonk band Lissy & the Jacks at the Jalopy Tavern

1/6, 10 PM haphazard dark punkish female-fronted band Cruel Children at Muchmore’s

1/7, 7 PM JAV (guitar, Buenos Aires), Joanna Mattrey (viola), Andrew Drury (percussion) improvise at Soup & Sound ,sug don

1/7-8, 7:30-/9:30 PM Ryan Truesdell leads his big band playing an all Bob Brookmeyer program at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/7, 8 PM  multistylistic, lyrical, improvisational cellist Rufus Cappodocia solo followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes, $10

1/7, 8 PM Florida retro 60s soul/funk band Patrick & the Swayzees at the Mercury, $10. Followed at 10 ($10 separate admission) by  female-fronted stoner boogie band the Loud Soft Loud

1/7, 8 PM a killer trio twinbill: intensely tuneful baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton‘s Predicate Trio followed by  jazz cellist Tomeka Reid leading her similarly translucent, edgy one at Seeds, $15

1/7, 8 PM violinist Francisco Fullana, harpist Bridget Kibbey, clarinetist Louis Arques, and Metropolis Ensemble play works by Clarice Assad, JP Jofre and others at the Poisson Rouge, $10 adv tix rec

1/7, 9 PM wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers at 11th St Bar

1/7, 11 PM noir-tinged pianist Frank Kimbrough leads a trio at Birdland, $30 at the bar

1/8, 1 PM the Kila Quartet play Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K 465 (“Dissonance”) and Bartók’s harrowing String Quartet No. 3 at the Greene Space, free w/rsvp

1/8, 7:30/9 PM playfully lyrical French jazz singer/composer Camille Bertault with similarly vivid pianist Leo Genovese at Mezzr0w, $20

1/8. 8 PM haunting, fearsomely powerful soul belter and noir Americana songstress Karen Dahlstrom at the Svendale Tasting Room, 486 Court St. (4th Pl/Luquer), Carroll Gardens, F to Carroll St

1/8, 8 PM otherworldly French-Algerian singer Ourida with her combo at Barbes

1/8, 8 PM ferociously powerful, politically fearless southern gothic guitar/banjo player Amythyst Kiah at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $20 gen adm

1/8, 9 PM Grace Kelly All Day – imagine the Talking Heads with genuine menace, echoes of dark punk and Laurel canyon psychedelia – at St. Vitus, $10

1/9, 7 PM soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis at 55 Bar

1/9-10, 7:30/930 PM  this era’s most cutting-edge, politically relevant large jazz ensemble, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society at the Jazz Gallery, $30

1/9, 7:30/9:30 PM  terse, purposeful rising star postbop saxophonist Melissa Aldana leads a quartet with Shai Maestro on piano at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/9, 1/12 and 1/15-17, 730 PM Garrett Fisher’s Indian and Japanese-inspired Blood Moon, “A contemporary response to a 15th century Noh play, Blood Moon uses choreography, puppetry, and a Taiko-infused score to create a meditation on the end of life, the nature of joy, regret, and whether atonement is possible,” at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, $35 tix avail

1/9, 7:30 PM, repeating 1/11 at 8 pianist Paul Lewis performs Grieg’s Romantic Piano Concerto with the NY Philharmonic who then tackle Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, $32 tix avail

1/9, 8 PM twinkly, chimey female-fronted dreampop/janglerock band Lunar Vacation at Baby’s All Right, $15

1/9, 8 PM bassist Michael Bates’ potentially incendiary chamber jazz band Acrobat with Mazz Swift-violin; Sara Schoenbeck-bassoon followed by eclectic violinist Dana Lyn’s protean, psychedelic, ecologically woke jazz project Mother Octopus at the Owl

1/9, 8 PM unpredictable sound sculptor Thessia Machado, electronic performer Melody Loveless, instrumental builder Viola Yip and flutist Roberta Michel explore diverse textures at Arete Gallery $15

1/9, 8:30pm cuatro shredder Jorge Glem & pianist Cesar Orozco ;9:15pm –  polymath latin jazz pianist Arturo O’Farrill leads a small group; 10:00pm – majestic, slinky cumbia accordionist/bandleader Gregorio Uribe ; 10:45pm Afro-Cuban salsa group Okan’11:45pm – psych-funk/disco group People of Earth at Drom, $15 adv tix rwc. Uribe and band are also here on 1/17 for the same deal, general admission

1/9, 7 PM eclectic indie classical/Americana banjo player Jayme Stone at the basement room at the Rockwood, $15. At 9 PM unpredictably fun, funny  art-rock/psychedelic soul band the Academy Blues Project  are at the small room there, and on 1/24 at 10 PM they’re at Shrine for $10

1/9, 10 PM feral bassist Brandon Lopez  and TAK Ensemble improvise at the Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, $20

1/9, 10:30 PM colorful bassist Joris Teepe leads a quintet with Wayne Escoffery on sax and Leo Genovese on piano at Smalls

1/10, 6 PM soaringly lyrical, fearlessly intense acoustic tunesmith Linda Draper at the American Folk Art Museum

1/10. 6 PM  irrepressible, historically informed, crystalline-voiced folk noir/art-rock/loopmusic songwriter Elisa Flynn and pensive lo-fi chamber pop band Teething Veils at Holo, sug don. 1/16 at 8 PM she’s at Lizzie King’s Parlor, 75A 5th Ave (Warren/St. Marks)., Park Slope, closest train is actually the 2/3 to Bergen St

1/10, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter followed at 10 by maginative, purist jazz drummer Dan Pugach’s Nonet at 55 Bar

1/10, 7 PM playfully intense female-fronted Balkan band Blisk;  7:45pm flamenco funk guitarist Juan Carmona ; 8:30pm flamenco songstress/guitarist Mamselle Ruiz; 9:15pm Digging Roots – who mash up gutter blues, folk noir and dub reggae -10:00pm Haitian hip-hop artist Vox Sambou ; 10:45pm  kitchen sink Brazilian/C&W/funk/New Orleans band Nation Beat ;11:30pm Danish klezmer band Mames Babagenush at Drom, free

1/10, 7 PM a rare US performance by stark, hypnotic Siberian Sakha Republic folk artists and khomus players Yuliyana Krivoshapkina and Nachyn Choreve at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

1/10, 7:30 PM Longleash play Beethoven’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 1 No. 3 and Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70 No. 1 “Ghost” – paired with two contemporary responses: John Zorn’s Ghosts, and a Reiko Füting world premiere at Flushing Town Hall, $25/$15 stud/srs. The program repeats 1/12 at 3 at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, 921 Madison Ave, same deal

1/10, 7:30/9:30 PM purposeful Serbian composr Rale Micic on guitar with Jared Gold switching from organ to guitar – wow! – and Jason Tiemann on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12, should be interesting

1/10, 8 PM bassist Sean Lovato‘s Microcosms band with Patti Kilroy on violin and Santiago Liebson on piano followed by bassist Lisa Hoppe‘s Jein trio with Todd Neufeld on guitar at Scholes St Studios

1/10, 8 PM trumpeter Ben Holmes’ broodingly Middle Eastern/klezmer-tinged Naked Lore trio followed at 10 by followed at 10 by Super Yamba playing their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Barbes

1/10, 8 PM charismatic loopmusic cellist Maya Beiser plays her new album Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar – a new cello arrangement of Bowie’s last album – at the World Financial Center, free

1/10, 8 PM ambitiously lyrical latin jazz pianist Aruan Ortiz at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery $20

1/10-11, 8 PM Jeremy Schonfeld’s epic 200-person rock opera Iron & Coal, exploring the death of his Holocaust survivor father at the Lynch Theatre at John Jay College, 524 W 59th St. $35 tix avail

1/10-11. 8 PM Eliza Bent’s Toilet Fire, “a ceremony and celebration of the one thing that unites us all. Using the structure of an ancient religious ritual to talk about matters of digestion, philosophy and faith, Toilet Fire explodes with song, story, audience participation, and unexpected textual twists,” i.e. the philosophy of potty jokes? at Vital Joint, 109 Meserole St., L to Montrose Ave $20

1/10, 9 PM a rare solo show by Girls on Grass’ psychedelic guitar goddess Barbara Endes followed by catchy funk-punk/new wave band Dolly Trolly at Branded Salooon

1/10, 9 PM in reverse order: gamelanesque percussion innovator Susie Ibarra and Dreamtime Ensemble; Allard van Hoorn transmits wavelength-patterns of his new photography series on a Moog synthesizer,at the Fridman Gallery 169 Bowery, $20

1/10 ,9 PM subtle, purposeful soul guitarist/singer Julia Ziwic at the small room at the Rockwood; at 11 PM lively oldtimey swing road warriors the Bumper Jacksons are at the basement room there for $15

1/10, 10 PM the Hillbenders play their deadpan hilarious bluegrass version of the Who’s Tommy followed by Celti-grass band We Banjo 3 at Iridium, $25

1/10, 11:30 PM brilliant Danish klezmer jazz ensemble Mames Babagenush at Drom, free. 1/11 at 8:30 they’re at Mehanata for $20, 1/12 at 2 PM they’re at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church, 155 E 22nd St. ,then 1/13 at 7:30 they’re at the Manhattan JCC for $25, then 1/18 they’re at Golden Fest

1/11, 3 PM Music for 7 Violas by the Momenta Quartet‘s Stephanie Griffin and Tony Prabowo at the Andrew Freedman Home, 1125 Grand Concourse, between McClellan and East 166th, St D to 167th St, free

1/11, 5 PM chanteuse/uke player Dahlia Dumont’s Blue Dahlia playing edgy, smartly lyrically-fueled, jazz-infused tunes in English and French with classic chanson and Caribbean influences followed eventually at 7 by edgy dobro player and Americana/jazz singer  Abbie Gardner at the small room at the Rockwood. Lush, wildly eclectic pan-Mediterranean art-rock/latin/chanson ensemble Banda Magda play down the block at the big room at 9;30 for $15

1/11, 5 PM Sufi percussionist/vocalist Kamyar Arsani at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $20

1/11, 7:15 ish dark psychedelic, ferociously entertaining acoustic blues/klezmer/reggae/soca jamband Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues.

1/11 ,7:30/9:30 PM ambitious, smart, noir-inclined tenor saxophonist Patrick Cornelius  with Rick Rosato on bass and Carl Allen on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12

1/11, 4 PM tango guitarist Adam Tully followed at 9:30 by  accordion genius Shoko Nagai’s haunting, increasingly loud and psychedelic Tokala Silk Road/klezmer mashup project and then at 11 by pyrotechnic singer Kamala Sankaram’s slinky, surfy, cinematic cumbia/Bollywood band Bombay Rickey at Barbes

1/11, 6 PM the Ekstasis cello-piano Duo play French chamber music by Faure, Ravel, Poulenc and others at Merkin Concert Hall, free

1/11, 7 PM Sounds of Siberia feat. Yuliyana and Nachyn; spellbinding Palestinian oudist Huda Asfour 7:45 PM ; Afro-latin jazz saxophonist Cochemea 8:30 PM;’ bhangra mastermind Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East 9:15 PM ; psychedelic latin soul band Alba and the Mighty Lions 10:00 PM excellent psychedelic tropicalia/live dub band Combo Lulo 10:45 PM’ Haitian conscious rapper Vox Sambou 11:30 PM; Lyon-based rai bandleader Sofiane Saidi and Mazalda 12:15 AM; more trippy dubwise tropical grooves with Los Cumpleaños 1:00 AM at Drom, $10

 1/11, 7 PM pensive Virginia Americana chanteuse Dori Freeman at the basement room at the Rockwood, $12

 1/11, 7:30/9:30 PM rapturous  pan-Asian singer/multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu plays her haunting, elegaic solo Zero Grasses suite at the Jazz Gallery, $30

1/11. 8 PM pensive, anthemic parlor pop songwriter Jess Clinton followed by the more trad front-porch style Diana Jones at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

1/11, 8 PM  soprano Lucy Dhegrae sings works on themes of trauma and triumph by Eve Beglarian, Osnat Netzer, Katherine Young plus pieces by Guillaume de Machaut, Poulenc and others at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

1/11, 9 PM explosive, theatrical, phantasmagorical indie/metal band A Deer A Horse followed by scampering, irrepressibly fun girlpunk/psychedelic band Sharkmuffin at the Broadway, $12. Sharkmuffin are also at Our Wicked Lady on 1/19 at 10:30 for $10

1/11, 10 PM Joanna Mattrey plays the album release for her new one with solo improvised and prepared viola pieces at the Fridman Gallery 169 Bowery, $20,

1/11, 10 PM sizzling electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at Skinny Dennis

1/12, noon fiery ecological activist/bandleader Rev. Billy and his massive original gospel-style choir at Joe’s Pub, $15

1/12, 2 PM exhilarating klezmer/latin/cumbia jamband Metropolitan Klezmer and their mostly-female sister band Isle of Klezbos at the Cutting Room, $20 adv tix rdc

1/12, 4 PM first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall and his killer band at Skinny Dennis

1/12, 5 PM the Sometime Boys’ riveting, powerful, theatrical frontwoman Sarah Mucho at Freddy’s

1/12, 5 PM, repeating 1/15 at 7 fearless impresario/pianist Yelena Grinberg plays Handel keyboard suites  at her upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

1/12, 5:30 PM fiery pianist Connie Han at Birdland, $30 at the bar. Followed at 7 (separate $20 adm) by whirlwind jazz drummer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom

1/12, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

1/12, 7 PM the multimedia performance Come‘Round Right pairs sculptural set pieces by Mara Baldwin, inspired by Shaker furniture and crafts, with music by Sarah Hennies based on Shaker hymns, illustrating a Shaker ghost town and its legacy at National Sawdust, $25 adv  tix rec

1/12, 7ish eclectic Americana/front porch folk songstresss Mary-Elaine Jenkins, janglerock guitar maven Teddy Thompson at around 8, then a lame, fussy faux-soul duo and at 10 irrepressible, high-voltage Americana harmony trio Red Molly at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix available at the Mercury

1/12, 7 PM soaring, politically relevant, brilliantly purposeful alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon with pianist Gerald Clayton at Teatro Latea 107 Suffolk St.,, $20/$15 stud

1/12. 8 PM sound artists Todd Barton, Rachelle Rahmé, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe build a hypnotic dystopic dreamscape at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/12, 8 PM a super rare NYC appearance by New Zealand’s trombone-driven Rodger Fox Big Band with singer Erna Ferry at Shapeshifter Lab, sug don

1/12, 8:30 PM articulate, lyrical third-stream jazz pianist Laila Biali at the basement room at the Rockwood, $10

1/13, 6 PM the Greenpoint Songwriters Exchange – a diverse bunch playing everything from folk noir to Costelloesque, literary rock to Indian ragas and oldschool soul – at Pete’s

1/13, 6:30 PM bassist Lisa Hoppe with Samantha Boshnak on trumpet and Stephen Boegehold on drums at the Bar Next Door, free wow

 1/13, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads his group from behind the Rhodesl at 55 Bar

1/13, 7:30 PM in reverse order at the Poisson Rouge: Kevin Eubanks and  erudite pianist Orrin Evans,, whirlwind jazz drummer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, plus allstar all-female jazz crew Artemis, $25 adv tix rec

1/13, 8 PM the String Orchestra of Brooklyn celebrate the release of their first studio album, afterimage, with a performance of Chris Cerrone’s High Windows and Jacob Cooper’s Stabat Mater Dolorosa at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/13 8:30 PM exhilarating klezmer/latin/cumbia jamband Metropolitan Klezmer at Drom, free

1/13, midnight boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at the Ear Inn

1/14, half past noon Italian organist Mario Verdicchio plays a program tba at Central Synagogue, Lex/54th, free

1/14, 7 PM dark cinematic klezmer art-rockers Barbez‘s Dan Kaufman in a rare duo with percussionist/vibraphonist John Bollinger followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes, $10

1/14, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian at 55 Bar

1/14-15, 7:30/930 PM  the haunting, smokily atmospheric Michael Leonhart Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, $30. Anat Cohen joins the band on the 14th!

1/14, 7:30 PM the Escher String Quartet with pianist Juho Pohjonen play the Debussy String Quartet plus works by Suk, Brahms and Janacek at Alice Tuly Hall, $34 tix avail

1/14, 8 PM the Istanbul Trio – who with oud, lyra, guitar, vocals, bass and percussion are really a sextet – at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

1/14, 8 PM sizzling Hungarian punk-folk/art-rock string band Bohemian Betyars at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

1/14, 8 PM a good terse, minimalistically intense, lyrically haunting female songwriter twinbill: Erin Durant and Claire Cronin at Trans-Pecos, $10

1/15, 6 PM multistylistic jazz singer/bandleader Tammy Scheffer followed by hard-hitting bassist Dawn Drake & Zapote‘playing psychedelic Afrobeat and funk  at the small room at the Rockwood.  Pastoral gothic accordion art-rock band Sam Reider & the Human Hands are down the block at the big room for $15 at 7

1/15, 7:30 PM cutting-edge, fearlessly woke postbop jazz powerhouse the Curtis Bros. play the album release show for their new one at Dizzy’s Club, $35

1/15, 7:30 PM, 1/16-18 at 8 and 1/18 at 2 PM, “set in a graveyard filled with the persistent cries of visitors in mourning and the music of Zulu Isicathamiya singers , the death-fixated lamentation Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro draws inspiration from Zakes Mda’s novel,  Cion and Ravel’s Boléro” at the Joyce Theatre, 175 Eighth Ave, $35 tix avail

1/15, 8 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini  followed at 10 by energetic delta blues/Romany swing guitaris Felix Slim  at LIC Bar. He’s also there on 1/19 at 9

1/15, 8 PM feral guitarist Brandon Seabrook leads a trio wih Dan Levin – cello and Henry Fraser – bass at Barbes

1/15-18, 8 PM Deniz Khateri‘s new multimedia performance The Cellos’ Dialogue, “ tells the story of a woman from the Middle East who has immigrated to America and suddenly finds herself struggling with an unexpected pregnancy. Musical experimentation, puppetry, projections, poetic language and action paint an expressionistic portrait of the woman’s tortured psyche as she wrestles with her circumstance,” at Patch Works, 98 Moore St. (Graham/Humboldt), South Williamsburg, J/M to Lorimer St, $20

1/15-19, 8:30 PM darkly tuneful pianist Kris Davis leads a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the 1/18 show with Ingrid Laubrock (sax) Trevor Dunn (bass) Tom Rainey (drums) Mat Maneri (viola) and special guest Jen Shyu (voice)

 1/15, 8:30 PM pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s of the NY Gypsy All-Stars with pianist Ruslan Agababayev at Drom, $10

1/15, 10 PM hotshot fiddler Josie Toney‘s oldtimey string band at Pete’s

 1/15, 10:30 PM tight doom metal band Eternal Black at Arlene’s, $10

 1/16, 7 PM uncluttered, darkly diverse Americana band Kaylor & the Tin Cans at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

1/16, 7:30/9:30 PM bassist Chris Tordini leads a quartet with Red Wierenga on accordion and Anna Webber on tenor sax at the Jazz Gallery, $15

1/16, 7:30 PM Nicaraguan crooner Luis Enrique and wild cuatro band C4 Trio at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

1/16-19, 7:30/9:30 PM pyrotechnic postbop tenor saxophonist  David Murray leads his explosive octet at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/16, 7:30 PM noir-tinged art-rock bandleader Agnes Obel at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

1/16, 7:30 PM pianist Per Tengstrand plays Beethoven’s Moonlight, Appasionnata and Pathetique Sonatas at Scandinavia House, $25

 1/16, 7:30 PM acerbic, enigmatic, Lynchian parlor pop/new wave/avant garde band Dollshot followedc by hypnotic minimalist postrockers Matt McBane & Build at Shapeshifter Lab, $tba

 1/16, 7:30 PM oldtime Americana maven Dom Flemons at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under, $30 otherwise

1/16. 7:30 PM top-ranking dancehall peeps: Busy Signal, Christopher Martin, roots reggae firebrand Jah 9 and Red Fox celebrate VP Records and the Strictly the Best series at the Prudential Center, 165 Mulberry St in Newark, $25

1/16, 8 PM feral guitarist Brandon Seabrook‘s twin-drum band Die Trommel Fatale at Nublu 151, $15

1/16, 8 PM edgy lead guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band followed by explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Barbes

1/16, 8 PM a rare NYC performance by Luxemourg pianist Sabine Weyer with works by Bacri, Scriabin and Miaskovsky at Arete Gallery, $20

1/16, 8 PM the Furies perform their program “A Cure For Hysteria,” featuring 21st century works by Jennifer Walshe, Olga Neuwirth, Elizabeth A. Baker, Thundercunt, and Eve Beglarian; sax quartet Nois perform works by Viet Cuong, Emma O’Halloran, Pauline Oliveros, and Cassie Wieland at Scholes Street Studios, $15

1/16, 8:30 PM Dervisi feat. psychedelic guitarist George Sempepos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems at Espresso 77, 35-57 77th Street (just off of 37th Avenue), Jackson Heights

1/16, 10 PM tight ghoulabilly/rockabilly road warriors Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones at Ten Hope, 10 Hope St. in Williamsburg, fre

1/17, 2 PM mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti workshops her forthcoming Cindy Sherman-inspired chamber opera exploring pivotal moments in a woman’s life, with music by Ellen Reid, Paola Prestini and Missy Mazzoli at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec

1/17, 6 PM composer-collective Oracle Hysterical, with collaborators Hub New Music, premiere “an evening-length collection of songs inspired by the expeditions of a wide-ranging group of ambitious, gritty – and often naive, cruel, and myopic explorers. Text comes from the journals of European ‘New World’ explorers like Columbus, Cortes, and de Soto; Puritan women on their new frontier; the naturalist John James Audubon; the ill-fated Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott (whose Terra Nova expedition party never made it home); the ancient king Gilgamesh and his quest to cheat death; and the Chinese mariner, treasure seeker, and builder of giant ships Zheng He” at 1 Rivington St., $15

1/17, 6 PM intense, wickedly tuneful jazz oudist/guitarist Gordon Grdina with his Nomad Trio with pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Jim Black, at the old Nublu, $10

1/17, 7ish entertainingly shuffling, harmony-driven jug band the Salt Cracker Crazies at Terra Blues

1/17, 7:30 PM and then 1/18 starting at 6 PM and going til maybe 3 in the morning, NYC’s funnest annual music festival, Golden Fest, with over a hundred Balkan, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and other dance bands throughout five different rooms at Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope. Serbian sweets! Spinach pies! Various pickled munchies and more all included! R train to Prospect Ave, go up the hill, you can’t miss it.

1/17, 7 PM  jangly Laurel Canyon psych-folk songwriter Rebecca Turner at Buunni Performance Space, (4961 Broadway btw 207th Street and Isham in Inwood), $15

1/17, 7 PM, repeating 1/18 at 8 the fearlessly relevant, toweringly intense Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space, $25 tix avail

1/17, 7:30 PM catchy, edgy, fiery tarantella and Romany-inspired jamband Newpoli at Drom, $20

1/17, 8 PM a great avant garde-ish twinbill: moody lo-fi keyboardist/singer Anni Rossi and klezmer-influenced singer/multi-instrumentalist Judith Berkson at the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St. in Gowanus,  $15

1/17, 8 PM American Contemporary Music Ensemble perform music of Gavin Bryars at the Tenri Institute, $25/$15 stud

1/17, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by  psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Gallo Bueno at Barbes

1/17, 8 PM a festival of Tatar song with the Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan and Eilenkrig Jazz Orchestra at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $25 tix avail

1/17-18, 8 PM polyrhythmic jams: Michael Formanek – bass; Mauricio Herrera – percussion; Noel Brennan – percussion; Patricia Brennan – vibraphone at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

1/17, 8 PM drummer Lesley Mok leads her quartet with Cory Smythe on piano followed by transgressively funny postbop saxophonist Jon Irabagon in a rare duo show with pianist Brian Marsella at Scholes Street Studios, $10

1/17, 9 PM one of the great saxophonists in the history of ska, Dave Hillyard leads his Quintet at Sunny’s. The next night 1/18, same time they’re at An Beal Bocht Cafe, 445 W 238th in the Bronx

 1/17, 9 PM the annual Dolly Parton bday singalong at the Jalopy, free

1/17, 9 PM noisy, unpredictably intense female-fronted guitar/drums/organ band Parlor Walls followed by punchy noiserockers Big Bliss at Alphaville, free

1/17, 9:30 PM fiery Portuguese twelve-string guitar sorceress Marta Pereira da Costa at Joe’s Pub, $25

1/17, 10 PM crunchy, individualistic fenale-fronted metal band Sister Thieves – guitar, synth and drums – at Arlene’s $10

1/17, 10:30 PM psychedelic janglerockers American String Conspiracy at Freddy’s

 1/17, 11 PM haphazard, unhinged doom metal band Ether Coven at St. Vitus, $12

1/18, 4 PM the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone), Ben Holmes (trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries, followed at 6 by wildly eclectic, edgy,lyrical soul/jazz cellist/singer Marika Hughes followed at 8 by intense, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leading his Tango Quartet and at 10 by ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

1/18, 7 PM fiery ecological activist/bandleader Rev. Billy and his massive original gospel-style choir at Buunni Performance Space, (4961 Broadway btw 207th Street and Isham in Inwood), $10, “nobody turned away”

1/18, 7 PM  unusually adventurous indie classical ensembles Hotel Elefant &  eclectic indie classical piano trio Bearthoven  play music by Fjóla Evans and Leaha Maria Villarreal at Arete Gallery, sug don

1/18. 7:30/9:30 PM the colorful, cinematic, unpredictable Erica Seguine/Shannon Baker Jazz Orchestra at the Jazz Gallery, $20

1/18, 8 PM Matt Sargent and Zach Rowden‘s Tide for ten basses, whooooah, at Scholes St Studios, $10

1/18, 8ish atmospherically anthemic Indian-influenced spacerock band Humeysha at Elsewhere, $12

1/18. 9 PM hip-hop artist Major Taylor followed by scorching political punk band the 1865 at BAM Cafe, get there early

1/18. 9 PM pounding, hypnotic no wave/noisecore band Kralice at St. Vitus, $12

1/18 9 PM bass goddess/soul singer Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith at the Way Station

1/18, 10 PM amusing weedhead rapper Kaheim Rivera followed by messy, funny female-fronted punk/80s band Ashjesus at the Broadway, $12

1/19, 3 PM Jessica Park, violin; Benjamin Larsen, cello; Hyungjin Choi, piano play works by Natalie Dietterich, Robert Sirota, Frank Bridge and Mozart at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place, downhill from 7th Ave, Park Slope, any train to Grand Army Plz, sugg don

1/19, 5 PM bassist Sam Suggs plays solo bass arrangements of famous and not so famous classical works tba at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/srs

1/19, 5:30 PM lavish, slinky latin noir big band jazz with the  Scott Reeves Jazz orchestra at Birdland, $30

1/19, 6:30 PM haunting Middle Eastern jazz bassist Petros Klampanis and his group followed eventually by similarly haunting violinist Layale Chaker at Drom, $20

1/19, 7 PM brilliant steel guitarist Mike Neer’s Steelonious – who do Monk covers in the same vein as Buddy Emmons –   followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

1/19, 7 PM pianists Brian Mark, Isabelle “Izzy” O’Connell, and Kathleen Supové join to explore the subject of migration and human struggle in a multidisciplinary setting with flutist Tessa Brinckman playing works by Meredith Monk, Missy Mazzoli, Randall Woolf, Howie Kenty, and Mary Kouyoumdjian, among others plus world premieres by Valerie Coleman and Raymond Deane at Arete Gallery $15

1/19, 9 PM Slovenian saxophonist Jan Kus’ Slavo Rican Assembly at the big room at the Rockwood $10

1/20, 7 ish epic haunting goth-tinged slowcore band Vestments, moody lo-fi keyboardist/singer Anni Rossi and the darkly armospheric Sondra Sun-Odeon at St. Vitus, $10

1/20, 7:30 PM soprano sax star Sam Newsome leads a quartet with Angelica Sanchez on piano at Smalls

1/20, 8/10:30 PM cutting-edge vibraphonist Joel Ross’ genuinely Good Vibes band at the Blue Note, $20 at the bar

1/20, 9 PM deviously funny, satirically-inclined Americana rockers Whisperado play the album release show for their new one at Arlene’s, $10

1/20, 9;30 PM trumpeter Sonny Singh’s “revolutionary devotional Sikh music”project at Barbes

1/21, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, violinist Lauren Cauley leads a 21st century music ensemble at the Miller Theatre, free

1/21, 7:30 PM this era’s most fearlessly relevant, hard-hitting tenor saxophonist, JD Allen leads his explosive new trio at Smalls followed at 10:30 by charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy

1/21, 7:30 PM pianist Xiaohui Yang plays works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Faure, Chopin, Shulamit Ran and others at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $20

 1/21, 7:30/9:30 PM purist postbop jazz guitarist Ed Cherry leads his organ trio with Kyle Koehler on the B3 at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/21-25, 8:30/11 PM iconic fire-and-ice jazz singer Karrin Allyson plays Mose Allison at Birdland, $30, wow, could be amazing

1/21, 9 PM drummer Arthur Vint & Associates reinvent classic Morricone spaghetti western soundtracksat Skinny Dennis

1/22, 7 PM pianist Lucas Debargue plays works by Ravel and Scarlatti at National Sawdust, $25 adv tic rec

 1/22, 7:30 PM bassist Alexis Cuadrado leads a group playing live film scores for Alice Guy-Blaché’s The Consequences of Feminism and Algie the Miner, Harold M. Shaw’s The Land Beyond the Sunset and Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant at the World Financial Center, free

1/22-25, 8 PM, also 1/25 at 3 not a music event but seems cool: Cameron Stuart’s new play Police in the Wilderness, “a narrative set in a future where burying or honoring the dead is illegal. Enforcers of these laws are agents of The Order, a cult that opposes symbols, language, and thinking. When an unmarked grave is discovered in the wilderness, a confrontation occurs between the local police and an old hermit. After a priest of The Order gets involved, a profane ritual unfolds with unforeseen consequences,” at Patch Works, 98 Moore St. (Graham/Humboldt), South Williamsburg, J/M to Lorimer St, $15

 1/22, 7 PM furious, politically fearless soul-punk/postrock band Algiers play the album release show for their new one at Rough Trade, free w/vinyl purchase

1/22, 8 PM singer Dida Pelled salutes obscure and cult favorite women songwriters including Connie Converse, Elizabeth Cotten, Molly Drake, Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega at Barbes

 1/22, 8 PM dark, savagely brilliant guitarist Ava Mendoza and viola sorceress Jessica Pavone at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery. They’re also there on 129

 1/22, 8:30 PM haunting Middle Eastern violinist Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Jake Charkey (cello) Phillip Golub (piano) Nick Dunston (bass) Adam Maalouf (percussion) at the Stone at the New School, $20

1/22, 9 PM lush, snidely lyrical parlor pop/new wave band Office Culture at the Sultan Room, $10

1/22, 9 PM slashing guitarist Steve Antonakos plays slide guitar blues with his band at Bar Chord

1/22, 10:30 PM shapeshifting pianist Sullivan Fortner solo at Mezzrow, $20

1/23, 7 PM plaintive Iranian classical songs with Amir Vahab and ensemble at the People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St, $15

1/23, 7 PM lustrous singer and badass cello-rock bandleader Serena Jost at Pangea

1/23, 7:30 PM plush, balmy, playful oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under, $30 otherwise

1/23, 7:30 PM trippy dubwise tropical grooves with Los Cumpleaños at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

1/23. 7:30 PM organist Clara Gerdes plays her new arrangement of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, as well as Julius Reubke’s iconically venomous Sonata on the 94th Psalm at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, free, wow

 1/23, 8 PM mutimedia artists and improvisers including  Sugar Vendil, Jean Carla Rodea, Popebama (Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan) play and debate the relevance of new music in a 21st century, historically-informed context at Arete Gallery, $15

1/23, 8 PM composer Scott Johnson and indie classical ensemble ensemble Contemporaneous  play relevant new works examining nationalism and racism, inspired by the sampled voices of immigrants to the US at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/23-24, 8 PM hauntingly jangly noir Americana/surf/punkgrass band the Sadies  at Union Pool,$20, yessssss, they slayed here the last couple of times

 1/23, 8 PM brooding Bulgarian art-rock chanteuse Ruth Koleva at Drom, $20 adv tix rec

1/23, 8 PM pianist Tianqi Du performs 13 pieces  from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I & II, and Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87. at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $30 tix avail

1/23. 8 PM conversational pianist Jeffrey Siegel plays works by Grieg, Stenhammar, Sibelius, Nielsen, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff at Scandinavia House, $25

 1/23-26, 8:30 PM rapturous  pan-Asian singer/multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu leads a series of groups at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: 1/24 with violist Mat Maneri, remixed live by Ikue Mori

1/23, 8:30 PM Nick Cave-ish psychedelic bandleader J Hacha de Zolla followed by ferocious psychedelic guitarist Debra Devi at Headroom Bar & Social, 150 Bay St, Jersey City, $10, Path train to Grove St

1/23, 9ish wild live techno with sax-and-drums monsters Moon Hooch at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix rec available at the Mercury

1/23, 9 PM Certain General guitarslinger Phil Gammage plays his dark Americana and blues at 11th St Bar

1/24, 7 PM trumpetert Kate Amrine plays the album release show for her new protest record with music by Gemma Peacocke, Kevin Joest, Jacob TV, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Ruby Fulton, Howie Kenty, and original compositions, joined by Ford Fourqurean on clarinet, Leanne Friedman on alto flute, and Richard Harris on trombone, t Spectrum, $15

1/24, 7 PM composer David ieri presents an “audacious” new live score for Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 silent film classic La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, at the Greene Space, $25

1/24, 7 PM not a music event but relevant: a screening of Astra Taylor’s provocative new documentary What Is Democracy followed by a book signing for her new book Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone. at Buuni, 4961 Broadway btw 207th Street and Isham in Inwood). Sug don

1/24, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by women composers Jacqueline Fontyn, Ursula Mamlok, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Elisabeth Lutyens, Galina Ustvolskaya at the Sharp Theatre at Juilliard, free, tix req 

1/2,4 8 PM best twinbill of the year so far: timeless, haunting, playful octogenarian Armenian jazz sage and multi-reedman Souren Baronian‘s Taksim followed by the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychddelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Barbes

1/24-25, 8 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play Jennifer Higdon’s elegiac blue cathedral, TCS’ first drumset concerto presentation, Just Say Yes, by Alexandra Gardner featuring Michael Blancaflor and Milhaud’s first cello concert with Kurt Behnke, both on Friday night’s performance. Saturday’s concert includes Sara Dudley’s soloist debut on the William Walton viola concerto; both shows conclude with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 at the DiMenna Center $25

1/24, 9 PM amazingly versatile, genuinely Hendrixian guitar shredder Viva DeConcini followed by bass sax monster Stefen Zeniuk’s punk mambo crew the NY Fowl Harmonic at Branded Saloon

1/24, 10 PM allusively haunting, minimalist folk noir singer Belle-Skinner at the Owl

1/24, 11ish furiously lyrical, charismatic soul-rockers NO ICE  at Footlight Bar

1/25, 4 PM high-energy Afro-Colombian trance-dance band Grupo Rebolu at Flushing Town Hall, $14

 1/25, 7 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez‘ annual goodbye party – saluting some of those who’ve left us this year – at Pangea, $25

1/25, 7 PM Egyptian exile and firebrand songwriter Ramy Essam and visual artist Ganzeer team up with playwrights/ musicians The Lazours to commemorate and keep the hope of the Arab Spring alive .at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec

1/25, 7 PM four sets of improvisation til 11 starting with pianist Eric Zinman‘s New Language Collaborative +2, Matt Lavelle‘s Night River septet with the bandleader on bass clarinet, multi-reedman JD Parran sparring with guitarist Dave Ross and then at 10 another multireedman, Ras Moshe’s sextet at Scholes Street Studios, $10

1/25, 7 PM charismatic punk classical cellist/singer Meaghan Burke followed at 8 by guitarist Marco Cappelli, accordionist Shoko Nagai and drummer Joe Hertenstein performing a live soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein’s silent film “Strike.” at Spectrum $15

1/25, 7:30 PM the Rosamunde String Quartet play works by Mendelssohn, Kevin Puts and Schubert at Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving Pl, $18

 1/25, 8 PM NY Baroque Incorporated sing works by Handel, Lully, Muffat and Telemann at the Miller Theatre, $30 seats aavil

1/25, 9 PM the Jaded Babies play their theatrical, quirky, comedic mashups of punk and art-rock at LP n Harmony, 683 Grand St in Williamsburg, free, take the G to Lorimer

1/25, 9 PM the Dirty Waltz Band- a seven-piece group playing more than a dozen instruments in 3/4 time from Balkan, Irish, jazz, blues and American folk traditions – at the Jalopy, $15

 1/25, 10 PM slinky, hypnotic percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at Barbes

1/25, 11 PM reliably creepy gholabilly vets the Memphis Morticians at Footlight Bar

 1/25, 11 PM one of the great saxophonists in the history of ska, Dave Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7 at the Gutter, $7

 1/26, 2 PM a rare US appearance by raucous Chinese central plains party ensemble Zhou Family Band at Flushing Town Hall, $18

1/26, 5 PM guitarist John King & noir keyboardist and Dylan collaborator Mick Rossi improvise at Spectrum, $15

1/26, 6ish haunting folk noir/Americana songwriter Emily Frembgen at LIC Bar

1/26, 7 PM guitarists Jim Campilongo and Steve Cardenas duke it out followed by paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

1/26, 7 PM tenor saxophonist Sam Weinberg, feral guitarist Brandon Seabrook and bassist Henry Fraser duel; it out; then bassist Charlie Kirchen leads his Trio at Scholes Street Studios, $10

1/26, 8 PM high-voltage psychedelic cumbia/Afrobeat jamband MAKU Soundsystem  at C”Mon Everybody, $10

1/26, 8 PM pissed-off funny punkish music for the disenfranchised: irresistibly funny political all-female punk trio Witchslap, the even more pissed-off Bint, the even rougher Que Sick, the sardonically spot-on Anxious? Anxious!, haphazard dark punkish female-fronted band Cruel Children at Footlight Bar, $10

1/26, 9ish enigmatically noisy duo Woodhull, the similarly noisy funkmetalish French Nurses, Liebs and Samer Ghadry.at the Cobra Club, $10

1/26, midnight psychedelic cinematic Italophile instrumentalists/parodists Tredici Bacci at the Mercury, $10 adv tix rec

1/27, 7 PM jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Blackout at the Schomburg Center, free

 1/27, 7 PM atmospheric, psychedelic violinist/singer Concetta Abbate and Rose Stoller pull “ambient lullabies” out of the ether at Footlight Bar, sug don

1/27, 10ish  feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

1/28, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Vivian Fine ,Florence Price, Young-ja Lee, Priaulx Rainier and Mary Lou Williams at the Sharp Theatre at Juiliard, free , tix req 

1/28, 7:30 PM iconic art-rockers the Bang on a Can All-Stars play world premieres by Amanda Berlind, Alvin Curran, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Qasim Naqvi, plus Phil Kline’s Exquisite Corpses and Julius Eastman’s “super-groove” Stay on It at Merkin Concert Hall, $25

1/28, 8 PM haunting, magical Middle Eastern classical singer Shelley Thomas plays oud with classical ensemble Brooklyn Takht at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

1/28, 8 PM a sizzling New Orleans brass night at Drom: the badass, original all-female Brass Queens, hip hop-influenced Flowingos and diverse, latin-influenced Brass Monkeys, $10 gen adm

1/28, 8 PM the hauntingly hallucinatory film Mother Sparrow by Sonya Belaya and Eryka Dellenbach plus live music performance by Belaya’s ensemble Dacha and a live dance performance of Make the Brutal Tender by Nola Sporn Smith and Dellenbach, at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/28, 10 PM well-liked, fearlessly political LES soul-rock songwriter/chanteuse Dina Regine,at the Delancey $tba

1/29, 7 PM rainy-day art-rock/Balkan jazz singer Tamara Jokic followed at 8:30 by intense, rapturous Balkan/Middle Eastern ensemble the Secret Trio –Tamer Pinarbasi, Ismail Lumanovski & Ara Dinkjian – at Drom, $10

1/29, 7 PM Peter Abinger remixes Eric Wubbels’ piano live at the Austrian Cultural Center, free, res req. “Ablinger likes to think about Voices and Piano as his song-cycle, though nobody is singing in it: the voices are all spoken statements from speeches, interviews or readings. And the piano is not really accompanying the voices: the relation of the two components is to be seen more as a competition. Speech and music is being compared. We can also say: reality and perception. Reality/speech is continuous, perception/music is a grid, which tries to approach speech. Actually the piano part is the temporal and spectral scan of the respective voice, something like a coarse gridded photograph it is the analysis of the voice. Music analyses reality….”

1/29, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Miriam Gideon, Vítězslava Kapralova, Germaine Tailleferre, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Margaret Sutherland, Grete von Zieritz, at the Sharp Theatre at Juiliard, free , tix req

1/29-2/1, 7:30/9:30 PM this era’s most consistently interesting jazz pianist, Vijay Iyer at the Jazz Standard, $30. Solo on the 29th, with a trio the rest of the way plus special guest Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet on 2/1, wow

 1/29, 830 PM perennially interesting piano/percussion ensemble Yarn/Wire leads a series of groups at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: 1/31 with bassoonist Katie Young

1/29, 9 PM Melissa Gordon of Melissa & the Mannequins, one of the best purist janglerock songwriters in NYC, at LIC Bar

1/29 9ish ntense, wickedly tuneful jazz oudist/guitarist Gordon Grdina with his band at I-Beam, $15

 1/29, 9:30 PM ambient electroacoustic sitarist/composer Ami Dang at Joe’s Pub, $15

1/30, 7 PM thoughtfully explorator pianist Yoko MIwa leads her trio at Birdland, $20 at the bar

 1/30, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Lili Boulanger, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Johanna Magdalena Beyer, Louise Talma, Margaret Bonds, Myriam Marbe, Amy Beach and Ruth Zechlin at the Sharp Theatre at Juiliard, free , tix req 

1/30, 7:30 PM sprawling psychedelic funk jamband Burnt Sugar reinvent songs from Porgy & Bess at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

 1/30, 8 PM pianist Simone Dinnerstein leads a quartet playing Bach keyboard sonatas at the Miller Theatre, $30

1/30-2/1, 8/10:30 PM sardonic, cinematic Russian jazz with saxophonist Igor Butman & the Moscow Jazz Orchestra at the Blue Note, $25 standing room avail

 1/30, 10 PM explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Niagara

1/30, 10 PM zabumba player Mike LaValle’s original forro band with Vitor Gonçalves on accordion at Barbes

1/30-31, 10 PM trip-metal doomscapers Wolf Eyes at Union Pool, $15\

1/31, 9ish pensive, atmospheric harpist/singer Rebecca El Saleh at the Owl

 1/31, 7 PM hard-hitting latin jazz pianist Donald Vega leads his trio at Birdland, $20 at the bar

 1/31, 7 PM the Neel Murgai Ensemble play the album release show for his new Indian string band record with amazing violin duo Arun Ramamurthy and Trina Basu at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

1/31-2/1, 7:30/9;30 PM terrifying tenors Marcus Strickland, JD Allen, Stacy Dillard’s Ghidorah quintet at the jazz Gallery, $30

 1/31, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Betsy Jolas, Grażyna Bacewicz, Ethel Smyth, Thea Musgrave, ​Sofia Gubaidulina with Raphael Vogl, organ at Alice Tully Hal, free , tix req at the box ofc

1/31, 7:30/9:30 PM Marcus Strickland, JD Allen and Stacy Dillard lead a ferocious tenor sax frontline with rhythm section at the Jazz Gallery, $30

1/31, 8 PM perennially sharp, hilarious avant garde icon Laurie Anderson at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery no joke, get there early, $20

1/31, 10 PM Cumbiagra – who’ve been going in a much more psychedelic, electric cumbia direction lately at Barbes

Full calendar for February coming 2/1

2/1, 2:30 PM the NY Classical Players perform the Debussy String Quartet, Dvorak’s American String Quartet and the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello at the NYPL for the Performing Arts out back of Lincoln Center free

2/1, 7:30 PM ruthlessly funny, politically satirical faux-folk duo Friends Who Folk (Rachel Wenitsky and Ned Riseley) at Union Hall,702 Union St. north of 7th Ave, R to Union St and walk uphill, $10

2/6, 7:30 PM the Telegraph Quartet play a program tba at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/6, 10ish explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Niagara, Ave A/7th St

2/10, 8 PM pianist Max Lifchitz plays Bach’s Chromatic Fanatasy & Fugue at National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave north of 28th, free

 2/13 ,7:30 PM hotshot, purist bassist Endea Owens leads her band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/17, 7:30 PM vocal and piano group Mirror Visions Ensemble “explores The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing: letters of love and vengeance, reports from the North Pole, missives asking for money or forgiveness, including correspondence of Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, and Sullivan Ballou. Tom Cipullo provides indispensable instruction with a newly commissioned Guide to Letter Writing, along with works by Gwyneth Walker, Cole Porter, Wolfgang Erich Korngold, Dominick Argento, Richard Pearson Thomas and Christopher Berg” at the Sheen Center, $25/$15 for students

2/20, 7:30 PM high-voltage oldschool salsa dura with longtime Tito Puente sideman John “Dandy” Rodriguez’s “Dream Team” at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/23, 5 PM the Fair Trade Trio with pianist Taisiya Pushkar play works by Faure, Schnittke and Jessica Meyer at Our Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Ave (one block west of Broadway at 189th St, frees

2/24, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, violinist Austin Wulliman & pianist Conrad Tao at the Miller Theatre, free

2/27, 7:30 PM intense, atmospheric chanteuse Imani Uzuri and ensemble “share an intimate chamber concert of compositions from her various works for voice, strings, flute and piano” at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/19-21 the NY premiere of Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel’s new chamber opera DWB (Driving While Black) with live score by cello/percussion duo New Morse Code at the Bauch College auditorium, $36/$16 stud

3/31, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, the new generation’s most eclectic jazz harpist, Brandee Younger & bassist Dezron Douglas at the Miller Theatre, free

4/14 drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, indie classical supergroup the Hands Free – James Moore, guitar & banjo; Caroline Shaw, violin Eleonore Oppenheim, bass; Nathan Koci, accordionat the Miller Theatre, free

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for December 2019

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, you might want to bookmark this page and check back regularly.

After the end of December, this calendar won’t be updated. Check the January calendar for the latest listings.

If you’re leaving your hood, don’t get stuck waiting for a train that never comes, make sure you check the MTA delays and out-of-service page for service cancellations and malfunctions, considering how unreliable the subway is at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you discovered here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar:

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! Next show is 12/27, 7 PM revisiting Haydn, Bartok, Brahms, Mozart, $20

sug don, email for details/address

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of tropical bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.. Brain Cloud are also playing their 10th anniversary show on Nov 22 at 9 PM at the Jalopy for $20

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $35 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays starting at 9:30 PM Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play two sets at Union Pool. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically woke, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the usual lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests. Sizzling guitarist Binky Griptite – Sharon Jones’ lead player – is also often there.

Mondays at 10 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

Tuesdays at 9 PM, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (check the club calendar), $10 cover.

Wednesdays at 9ish the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Most Thursdays at 8:30, the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays at 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Saturdays in January the only 4 PM free concert at Bargemusic; is on 1/4.  These usually feature solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Saturdays in December, at 6 PM  haunting, cinematic lapsteel genius Myk Freedman  plays with a series of bands at Barbes

Saturdays in January, 6 PM wildly eclectic, edgy,lyrical soul/jazz cellist/singer Marika Hughes at Barbes

Most Sundays at 5:15 PM starting in late September, a free recital on the amazing, powerful, dynamic new organ at St. Thomas Church at 5th Ave and 53rd St. featuring some of the world’s greatest organists. The space is magnificent and the music usually is too. Right now the church fathers are programming pretty much everybody who used to work here and play the mighty old Aeolian-Skinner organ that finally had to be replaced. Check the concert calendar for details.

Sundays in December,12/1, 12/8, 12/22 an d 12/29 at 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of groups at the Bar Next Door

Sundays at 8:30/11 PM the epic, intense, politically fearless Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland, $30 bar seating avail

Sundays at 9:30 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel leads his band at Barbes – check the club calendar just to make sure.

12/1, 2 PM fiery ecological activist/bandleader Rev. Billy and his massive original gospel-style choir at Joe’s Pub, $15,

12/1, 2 PM pianist Benjamin Grosvenor plays works by Schumann, Janacek, Prokofiev and Liszt at the Town Hall, $20

12/1, 3 PM a string quartet with Jennifer Gersten, violin; Jungwon Yoon, violin; Nick Pauly, viola; Benjamin Larsen, cello play works by Natalie Dietterich, Robert Sirota and Samuel Barber at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, Park Slope, any train to Grand Army Plz, sugg don

12/1, 4 PM Hell’s Kitchen Country play “lesser known material of bluegrass pioneers such as the Sauceman Brothers, as well as the Stanley Brothers and Jimmy Martin” at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $10

12/1. 5 PM, repeating 12/5 at 7 Allison Kiger, flute; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello and hostess/impresario Yelena Grinberg, piano play a rare program of works by female composers Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smythe, Louise Farrenc, Cecile Chaminade and Fanny Mendelssohn at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

12/1, 7:30/9 PM disarmingly direct, lustrous jazz singe Marianne Solivan with Joshua Richman (piano), Barry Stephenson (bass) at Mezzrow, $20

12/1, 8 PM perennially tuneful, pensively lyrical Americana janglerocker Mike Ferrio of Tandy and Good Luck Mountain at 11th St. Bar

12/1, 8:30 PM  cinematic guitarist Pat Irwin and boisterous swing/ska trombonist J. Walter Hawkes at Troost

12/1, 9 PM a rare reunion of gothic Americana legends O’Death followed at 10:30 by politically fearless dirty gospel piano wildman Rev. Vince Anderson with his classic 1999 lineup at Pete’s. No shit. Get there early

12/2, starting at 6ish the annual Winters Eve festival at and around the triangla where Broadway meets Columbus Ave, some surprisingly good acts show up and play in the cold. Klezmer under the xmas tree, maybe?

12/2, 6 PM whirlwind klezmer violin icon Alicia Svigal‘ Klezmer Fiddle Express at the triangle at Broadway and 66th St

12/2, 6 to 9 PM, with several breaks, Mariachi Nuevo Mexico at1900 Broadway between 63rd & 64th St

12/2 6 to 9 PM, with breaks to go down for repairs at the least opportune time, the L Train Brass Band at 1865 Broadway at 61st St.

12/2 6 to 9 PM, with breaks, electric violinist Monica Portillo at 1932 Broadway at 64th St

12/2, 7 PM Colombian-Haitian roots dance band Strings & Skins at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, note early showtime

12/2, 7 PM Jocelyn MacKenzie, the better half of popular late zeros chamber pop band Pearl & the Beard at Pete’s

12/2, 7:30 PM percussionist/composer Qasim Naqvi, violinist Jennifer Koh and singer Davóne Tines perform Naqvi’s compositions plus works by J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Isang Yun, and traditional African-American spirituals at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free

12/2, 7:30 PM charmingy edgy all-female latin tropicalia dance band Ladama plus Guatemalan songwriter Gaby Moreno and chamber orchestra Metropolis Ensemble at Merkin Concert Hall, $20

12/2, 8 PM pianist Jim Funnell and violinist Chloe Seunghyen Kim jam out originals and works by Shostakovich and Couperin at Scholes St. Studios

12/2, 9 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with Jack Grace solo at Bar Chord. 12/9 at 9 he’s with his band at Skinny Dennis

12/2, 9 PM edgy lead guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band at LIC Bar

 12/2, 9 PM sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece and group at the Fat Cat

12/3, 7 PM Venice-themed “madrigals for cello, choir, and city” by Andrea Liberovici performed by Aaron Wolff, cello with the Fractio Modi vocal quartet at the Italian Academy at Columbia, 1161 Amsterdam Ave just south of 118th, free

12/3, 7 PM soprano Lucy Dhegrae and the Talea Ensemble play David Adamcyk’s new composition, Father, My Father, a reflection on the #MeToo movement at the Americas Society, free, rsvp sugg

12/3, 7:30/9:30 PM whirlwind B3 jazz organist Pat Bianchi leads his quartet at the Jazz Standard, $30

12/3-8, 8:30/11 PM monster drummer Johnathan Blake & his sizzling quintet Pentad at the Vanguard

12/3-7, 8:30 PM perennnially edgy, darkly tuneful, fearlessly noisy guitarist Mary Halvorson leads a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice picks: 12/6-7 with her Code Girl sextet with Amirtha Kidambi (voice) María Grand (tenor saxophone, voice) Adam O’Farrill (trumpet) Michael Formanek (bass) Tomas Fujiwara (drums)

12/3, 9 PM Americana rock songstress and Hadestown creator Aiofe O’Donovan followed at 10:30 by Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney doing her new wave rock project at Pete’s

12/3, 9 PM brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet playing classic salsa grooves at the Fat Cat

12/4, 1 PM the Ulysses Quartet play works by Komitas, David Haas and others at the Greene Space, free, rsvp req

12/4, 7 PM crystalline-voiced noir Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss with her excellent band at Mirror in the Woods, 575 Union St, Gowanus, R to Union St

12/4, 7 PM Carlos Aguilar, Simone Baron, Robert Fleitz, Carrie Frey,, Alec Goldfarb, Giancarlo Latta, Helen Newby, Erin Rogersand Clara Warnaar pay scores by George Lewis, Lou Sheppard and others “centered on ideas of loss, fragmentation, and recreation” for improvising ensemble. at Scholes St. Studios, $15/$10 stud

 12/4, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10. 12/16 at 8 he’s at the Jalopy Tavern for the tipjar

12/4, 8:30 PM Dervisi feat. psychedelic guitarist George Sempepos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems at Troost

12/4, 9 PM sharply lyrical southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner  at LIC Bar

12/4. 9 PM psychedelic soul band  Frankie Sunswept and the Sunwrays at the Jalopy Tavern

12/4, 9 PM edgy, dreampop-tinged Americana rock songwriter Juliana Nash back at her old stomping ground at Pete’s, which she booked brilliantly for years back in the 90s and zeros

 12/5, 8:30 PM Thurston Moore and his non Sonic Youth band at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

12/5 8:30 PM a klezmer dance party with T-Klez featuring clarinetist Dena Ressler, the legendary Psachya Septimus & drummer David Licht at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

 12/5, 7 PM poignant, nuanced jazz singer Amy Cervini leads her quartet at 55 Bar

12/5. 7/9 PM poignantly lyrical, eclectic pianist Marta Sanchez leads her quintet with Chris Cheek on sax playing the album release show for her new one at Birdland, $20 bar seating avail

12/5, 7:30 PM the fearlessly relevant, toweringly intense Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Bric Arts, $25 standing room avail

12/5 7:30 PM, repeating 12/7 at 8 the  NY Philharmonic with piano legend Yefim Bronfman play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. plus Symphony No. 2, $32 tix avail

12/5, 7:30 PM guitarist Wendy Eisenberg solo followed by drummer Devin Gray and his improvisational trio featuring saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos and bassist Luke Stewart at Greenwich House Music School, $15

12/5, 8 PM the Monenta Quartet “joins forces with composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White in a multimedia evening fusing Western contemporary music with Japanese aesthetics,” at Roulette, $20 gen adm

12/5, 8 PM 21st century classical star Bright Sheng plays piano joined by the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

 12/5, 8 PM a night of improvisation: Donald Sturge Anthony McKenzie II + On Ka’a Davis; 8:45pm pensively intense microtonal violinist/singer Sarah Bernstein solo; 9:30pm Telepathic Band
 (Daniel Carter, Patrick Holmes, Matthew Putman, 
Hilliard Greene, Federico Ughi) at Union Pool, $15

12/5, 8:30ish psychedelic supergroup the Elgin Marbles feat. members of Love Camp 7, Dervisi and Peter Stampfel’s jug band at Troost

12/5, 10 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin leads his Zebtet at the Fat Cat. He’s also here on 12/10 and 12/17 at 7

12/5, 10 PM explosive, theatrical, phantasmagorical indie/metal band A Deer A Horse at Trans-Pecos, 410

12/5-6,10:30 PM indie powerpop/jangle superstars the Joy Formidable at Rough Trade, $25. Some think they’re this era’s Pretenders; others think they’re peevishly opaque.

12/6, 5:30 PM dark, carnivalesque oldtimey songwriter Feral Foster at the American Folk Art Museum

12/6, 7 PM Yara Arts Group with bandurist Julian Kytasty singing wintertime Carpathian songs at the Ukrainian Museum, 222 E 6th St $25/$20 stud/srs

12/6, 7 PM singers Theo Bleckmann and Magos Herrera, trombone monster Ryan Keberle, and Endless Field with special guests at St Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex, $20 to benefit the NRDC

12/6, 7:30 PM chamber quintet Vista Lirica play works by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and a rare Max Reger quintet piece at Greenwich House Music School, $25/$15 stud/srs

12/6, 8 PM iconic fire-and-ice jazz singer Karrin Allyson and pianist Roberta Piket’s sextet project celebrate the compositions of legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland. at Flushing Town Hall, $16/$10 srs/students 18 and under free w/school ID

12/6, 8 PM guitarist Alex Levine and pianist Alex Tosca lead their Trios at Scholes St. Studios, sug don

12/6, 8 PM, repeating 12/8 at 3 the NJ Symphony Orchestra with pianist George Li play works by Anna Clyne, Dvorak and Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano concerto at NJ PAC in Newark, $20 tixa vail

12/6, 8 PM avant singer Charmaine Lee with Tyshawn Sorey (percussion) remixed live by Ikue Mori at Issue Project Roomm, $15/$12 sud/rs

12/6, 8 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play Arturo Marquéz — Danzón No. 2; Max Bruch — Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, op. 26 with soloist Molly Fletcher on violin; Camille Saint-Saëns — Introduction & Rondo capriccioso with violin soloist Dawn Wang; Fernande Breilh Decruck — Les clochers de Vienne: Suite de Valses (NYC Premiere); Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on Greensleeves; Leroy Anderson — Sleigh Ride; and Aaron Dai — The Night Before Christmas at St. Paul’s Church, 315 W 22nd St., $20 sugg don

12/6-7, 8 PM pan-Asian chanteuse/multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu debuts hauntingly atmospheric new work at Happy Lucky No. 1 Galllery, $20

12/6, 8:30 PM John McCowan plays solo contrabass clarinet followed by bass clarinetist Aaron Novik‘s close-harmonied, overtone-layered homage to downtown NYC noiserock bands of the 80s at Arete Gallery $15

12/6, 9 PM fearlessly relevant latin rock songwriter and protest song connoisseur Ani Cordero at the Sultan Room, $20

12/6, 9 PM anthemic Iron Maiden-style metal band the Blackfires at the Mercury ,$12

12/6, 9 PM a rare Friday installment of Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza with Drew & the Blue, at 10 surfed-up tv themes from Commercial Interruption, at 11 hard-hitting, reverb-iced Strange but Surf, and around midnight Drip Culture

12/6, 9:30 PM a rare reunion of brilliant resonator guitarist/bluesmama Mamie Minch‘s sassy all-female oldtimey blues quartet the Roulette Sisters followed at 10:30 PM by the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Pete’s

12/6, 9:30 PM stoner boogie/punk/powerpop band the Evictions, heavy psych band the Warhorses and Brooklyn’s hilarious counterpart to Spinal Tap, stoner metal parodists Mighty High at the Gutter, $7

12/6, 10 PM hard-hitting, brass-fueled newschool latin soul/boogaloo dance band Spanglish Fly at Barbes

12/6, 10:30 PM tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson leads his quintet at the Fat Cat

12/7, 5 PM singer Mary Thorne leads a septet performing Bach advent cantatas at the cozy, rustically festive Christ Church Cobble Hill, 326 Clinton St, Brooklyn, F to Bergen St., reception to follow, sug don

 12/7, 6 PM fiery, psycheirdelically bluesy oldschool soul/roadhouse jamband Lizzie & the Makers  at Pete’s

12/7, 6 PM haunting, cinematic lapsteel genius Myk Freedman followed at 8 by the furry-suited, oldtimey jazz Xylopholksand then at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

 12/7, 7 PM soca hall of famer Mighty Sparrow and his equally hilarious, phenomenal band in a rare intimate show at Joe’s Pub, $25

12/7, 7:30 PM the Calidore String Quartet play works by Webern, Haydn and Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 iat Irving Auditorium, Irving Pl/17th St., $17

 12/7, 7:30 PM sultry retro Franco-American torch jazz/chamber pop/ukulele swing band les Chauds Lapins at the basement room at the Rockwood, $12

 12/7, 8 PM trippy, dubby roots reggae and ska sounds with Avo & Skalopy at the Jalopy Tavern

12/7, 8 PM veteran satirical poliical songwriter Charlie King and Appalachian folksinger Annie Peter at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

 12/7, 8 PM Gamelan Kusuma Laras performs traditional Javanese gamelan music under the direction of the renowned I. M. Harjito. at Roulette, $30

12/7, 9 PM the Machio Ozawa Tango Duo at Bar Thalia adjacent to Symphony Space, free

12/7, 10 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel & the Two Cent Band at Skinny Dennis

12/8. 11 AM fearless indie classical pianist Jenny Lin plays a program tba at Subculture, $20, coffee and breakfast snacks included

12/8, noon ish brilliant, fearlessly political B3 organist Greg Lewis plays Monk tunes at Bar Lunatico. He’s also here on 12/22

12/8, 3 PM singer Jessica Bowers and guitarist Oren Fader play art-songs by Scott Wheeler, Hilary Purrington, Frank Brickle, William Anderson, Randy Woolf, and Paul Salerni. $15/$10 stud/srs followed at 8 PM by trumpeter Ryan Messina leading his Trio with Marius Duboule, guitar; Michael Brownell, bass at Scholes St. Studios, sug don

12/8,  4 PM the Sometime Boys’ riveting, powerful, theatrical frontwoman Sarah Mucho sings dark cabaret and rock tunes at Freddy’s

12/8, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

12/8, 6 PM violinist Sana Nagano does double duty, first with mandolinist Sam Harnet and bassist Zach Swanson, then in the duo  Peach and Tomato with violist Leonor Falcon at Downtown Music Gallery

12/8, 7 PM a rare free show by Ethio-jazz piano/accordion pioneer Hailu Mergia at Pioneer Works

12/8, 7 PM spine-tingling, darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC – at Pangea

 12/8, 7 PM haunting, fearsomely powerful soul belter and noir Americana songstress Karen Dahlstrom – at Scratcher Bar, 209 E 5th St

12/8, 9ish Bubble  leader Dave Foster’s retro jazz song project the Gershwin Bros followed by torchy singer Rembert Block’s concert version of her new opera at the Treehouse at 2A

12/8 ,10ish wryly psychedelic cinematic Italophile instrumentalists/parodists Tredici Bacci at the Sultan Room, $10

12/8, 10 PM ntriguingly opaque parlor postrockers Green & Glass  play the album release show for their new one at the Mercury, $10

12/9, 6 PM the Greenpoint Songwriters Exchange – a diverse bunch playing everything from folk noir to Costelloesque, literary rock to Indian ragas and oldschool soul – at Pete’s

12/9, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads his group from behind the Rhodesl at 55 Bar

12/9, 8 PM Toot Sweet play twisted theatrical female-fronted accordion glam rock at the small room at the Rockwood.

 12/9, 8 PM bassist James Ilgenfritz’s Anagram Ensemble play the world premiere of Colombian-American composer Federico Garcia De Castro’s Themuru, for two guitars, two percussionists, clarinet, saxophone, viola, cello, and bass followed by Ilgenfritz’s multimedia opera I Looked At The Eclipseat Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

12/9, 8:30 PM suave oldschool tuneful postbop: Harry Allen (tenor sax) leads his quartet at Birdland, $20 bar seating avail

 12/9, 8:30 PM enigimatically witty, erudite jazz chanteuse/songwriter Dorian Devins  leads her trio at the Bar Next Door, $12

12/9, 10ish the NYC Gaita Club – a Bulla en el Barrio spinoff – play rustically pounding Afro-Colombian trance-dance music at Barbes

12/9, 7:30 PM imaginative, purist jazz drummer Dan Pugach’s Nonet followed at 10:30 PM by this era’s most intensely powerful tenor saxophonist/composer, JD Allen‘s smoking, intense trio at Smalls

 12/9, 9 PM smartly lyrical, eclectically tuneful 70s British style pub/punk rockers Binky Phillips & the Planets at Arlene’s, $5

12/10, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, badass harp virtuoso Bridget Kibbey plays works by Bach, Gershwin, Albeniz and Tschaikovsky at the Miller Theatre, free

12/10, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian at 55 Bar

 12/10, 7:30/9 PM lyrical jazz piano icon Fred Hersch in a rare duo show with his longtime, subty coloristic drummer Eric McPherson at Mezzrow, $20

12/10, 8 PM guitarist Josh Farrar leads the electric Microaggressions playing classic Arabic songs by Balegh Hamdi and Sayyed Makawi plus works by Aram Khachaturian and Erik Satie, plus, “most enticingly,” the “Wasla from Hell,” an extensive suite that juxtaposes melodies by the venerated Arab masters Mohammed Abdl Wahab, Farid Al Atrash, and Mohammed Qasabgi with metal and proto-metal riffs by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Slayer. at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St, C to Clinton-Washington

12/10-15, 8;30/11 PM state-of-the-art jazz bassist Christian McBride & Inside straight at the Vanguard

12/10, 9 PM klezmer-influenced singer/multi-instrumentalist Judith Berkson premieres new work with adaptive new music chamber ensemble Ordinary Affects at Roulette, $18 av tix rec

12/10, 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his quintet at Smalls. He’s also here on 12/24. same time

12/11, 6;30 PM not a music event but relevant and recommended: a free screening of the documentary film La Supplication (Voices from Chernobyl) directed by Pol Cruchten, at the Americas Society, free, rsvp req

12/11, 8 PM violist Carrie Frey and Tamika Gorski present: A Very Merry Minimalistmas! “A play-along of Carrie Freiley’s In C(hristmas)! It’s based on Terry Riley’s classic “In C,” but with a hefty dose of holiday twist. There will be music and festive snacks and beverages! Bring your instruments, voices, or jingle bells, and play along, or come to hang out and listen! Latecomers and early leavers also welcome,” at Scholes St. Studios

12/11 day 1 of the annual Roots & Ruckus Festival at the Jalopy and Jalopy Tavern, free. Stage 1: The Jalopy Theatre 8:00 PM – Sam Talmadge, 8:30 PM – The Jalopy Chorus. 9:00 PM – Ken Schatz, 9:30 PM – brilliantly relevant Americana/pan-American songwriter Miriam Elhajli; 10:00 PM – the intense, historically inspired oldtime blues/gospel Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo. 10:30 PM – Yva Las Vegass & Amelia Jackie. 11:00 PM – 19th century style string band The Four O’ Clock Flowers. 11:30 PM – Astroturf Noise. Stage 2: Jalopy Tavern 8:00 PM – Paisley Fields. 9:00 PM – Anna J. Witiuk. 10:00 PM – Lissy & the Jacks, 11:00 PM – Lord Youth

12/11, 7:30/9:30 PM purposeful raga pianist Utsav Lal at the Jazz Gallery, $15

12/11, 7:30 PM the amazing, haunting, otherworldly NY Andalus Ensemble – who play ancient Middle Eastern and North African Jewish sounds from as far back as a thousand years ago  –  at La Nacional, 239 W 14th St, $22/$16 stud/srs

12/11, 8 PM dark, ferociously eclectic guitarist Anders Nilsson – who careens from Satie to Big Lazy to metal – and band at Barbes

12/11, 8 PM  pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s ferociously kinetic NY Gypsy All-Stars at Drom $10

12/11, 10 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl and band at Pete’s

12/12, 6 PM performances by Jo˜ão Rezende, bandoneon sorcerer JP Jofre, celtic folk trio Tam Lin (Elliot Cole, Fiona Gillespie, and friends), Andrew Yee, and ambient electronic performances from Sebastian Zel, Alex Ring Gray, natalie[dot]computer, and David Bird plus fancy drinks! at 1 Rivington St., 2nd fl, free, rsvp req 

12/12. 7 PM Hyojin Kang – one of Korea’s most celebrated gayageum (magically warptoned zither) virtuosos at Spectrum, $15

12/12, 7 PM soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis at 55 Bar

12/12, 7 PM in their New York debut, the Eybler Quartet play the U.S. premiere of Pedro Ximénez de Abrill Tirado’s Quartet, Op.55, at the Americas Society, $20- a rare chance to hear fascinating obscure 19th century Pan-American repertoire.

12/12, 7:30 PM postminimalist pianist Julian De la Chica “explores raw scenes from watching people’s every day life from a friend’s apartment window in Soho,” hmmm, at the DiMenna Center, $25

12/12, 7:30 PM spoofy goth and folk noir parodiies with the Gothic Archies at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under ,$30 otherwise

12/12 day 2 of the annual Roots & Ruckus Festival at the Jalopy and Jalopy Tavern, free. Stage 1: The Jalopy Theatre – 8:00 PM – Taylor Plas; 8:30 PM – fiery, fearless oldtimey blues songwriter/historian Vienna Carroll; 9:00 PM – Maria Alejandra Rodriguez; 9:30 PM – the otherworldly Ukrainian Village Voices; 10:00 PM – Neel Murgai & Mir Naqibul Islam playing an Indian raga or two; 10:30 PM – wild klezmer band Litvakus. Stage 2: Jalopy Tavern – 8:00 PM – Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues playing sly Memphis Jug Band classics; 9:00 PM – The Buck and a Quarter Quartet; 10:00 PM – Starcrossed Losers; 11:00 PM – Jackson & the Stanks

12/12, 7:30 PM Indian and latin-tinged jazz improvisation with the Karuna Trio featuring Hamid Drake, Adam Rudolph, and Alexis Marcelo at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free

12/12, 8 PM the fifteen-piece Collapsible Shoulder Big Band performs compositions from Chris Cochrane’s upcoming release at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

 12/12, 8 PM Indian percussion genius Deep Singh’s Sharabi live bhangra project, reggae-rockers Zion80 and wild, hilarious klezmer punks Golem at Drom, $20

12/12. 8 PM saxophonist Anna Webber  leads her combo at Jamaica Center for Arts, 161-4 Jamaica Ave, Queens, $10

12/12, 8 PM enigmatic improvisational rock with 101 Crustaceans’ Ed Pastorini & indie classical piano trio Bearthoven at the Owl

12/12, 8 PM charmingly dangerous harmony trio the Whynotte Sisters – Sara Milonovich, the Pre-War Ponies’ Daria Grace and Vibeke Saugestad –  followed at 10 by drummer Arthur Vint & Associates reinventing classic Morricone spaghetti western soundtracks at Barbes

12/12, 8:30 PM a rare duo performance by klezmer chanteuse Polina Shepherd with Klezmatics accordion wizard Lorin Sklamber at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

12/12, 8:30 PM riveting Japanese shamisen player/singer/improviser Emi Makabe leads a trio with Thomas Morgan on bass, Vitor Gonçalves on piano/accordion at I-Beam, $15

12/12, 9 PM 20s hot jazz revivalists Cait and the Critters at Radegast Hall

 12/12, 9 PM lavish, slinky latin noir big band jazz with the  Scott Reeves/Jay Branford Dectet at Silvana

 12/12, 9ish ferocious female-fronted art-rock/stoner metal band Ruby the Hatchet and German stoner band Kadavar at St Vitus, $20

 12/13, 5;30 PM imagistic original front-porch folk songwriter Lisa Bastoni at the American Folk Art Museum

 12/13, 7 PM drummer Adam Rudolph’s strikingly tuneful, rumblingly improvisational Go Organic Orchestra  and Brooklyn Raga Massive – 40 people onstage, insane Indian jamband awesomeness – at Elebash Hall, 365 5th Ave, $25

12/13 day 3 of the annual Roots & Ruckus Festival at the Jalopy and Jalopy Tavern. Stage 1: Jalopy Theatre – 8:00 PM – Barry Clyde 8:30 PM – Chris Acker and the Growing Boys 9:00 PM – Mary Go Round 9:30 PM – Morgan O’Kane10:00 PM – soaring Americana songstress Maggie Carson & Band 10:30 PM – The Horse-Eyed Men 11:00 PM – devious Hawaiian guiarist Isto 11:30 PM – Nat Myers; Stage 2: Jalopy Tavern 8:00 PM – Mara Kaye 9:00 PM – Skalopy Brass 10:00 PM – Hasta la Zeta 11:00 PM – Papa Vega’s Rocket 88s

 12/13. 8 PM magically hypnotic pan-Asian multi-instrumentalis/singer Jen Shyu‘s harrowing, elegaic suite Zero Grasses at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $25 adv tix rec

12/13, 8 PM intrepid indie classical chamber group Wet Ink Ensemble  play works by Charmaine Lee, Pierre Tremblay, Kristina Wolf, Bryn Harrison and Eric Wubbels at St. Peters Church, 346 W 20th St, $10, stud free

 12/13-14 8 PM cellist Jay Campbell leads an improvisational ensemble at Happy Lucky No. 1 Galllery, $20

12/13, 8 PM poignant, eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo’s Tango Quartet followed at 10 by psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Galle Bueno at Barbes

 12/13, 8:30 PM Ikue Mori remixes a live show by arguably the foremost piano improviser alive (and a hell of a composer too), Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura at the Stone at the New School, $20. The following night 12/14, same time Fujii and Tamura are at I-Beam for five bucks less sans Mori; 12/15 at 8 they’re at 244’s Black Box Theatre, 244 West 54th St.,10th fl

12/13, 8:30 PM ambitious, perennially tuneful saxophonist Mike McGinnis leads his pastoral jazz Roadtrip nonet at I-Beam, $15

12/13. 9ish kitchen sink Brazilian/C&W/funk/New Orleans band Nation Beat at Nublu 151, $15

12/13, 10 PM irrepressibly sardonic janglerock/folk-punk songwriter, New Yorker illustrator and White Hassle alum Marcellus Hall  at Pete’s

12/14, 4 PM colorful violinist Zoe Aqua leads her klezmer band playing a Hanukah celebration at Congregation Beth Elohim Ballroom, 274 Garfield Pl, Park Slope, $20

 12/14, 5 PM third-stream neoclassical group Electric Diamond with Ruth Cunningham – founding member of legendary choir Anonymous 4 at the Frances X. Cabrini Shrine, 701 Fort Washington Ave, A to 190th st, sug don

12/14, 7 PM  this era’s most spellbinding oldschool country singer, Laura Cantrell followed by Gguitar goddess Barbara Endes’ exhilarating psychedelic janglerock band Girls on Grass at WFMU Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery St., Jersey City, $12, BYOB plus there will be free eggnog and snacks! Path train to Exchange Place

12/14, some pretty wild improvs: 7 PM Aron Namenwirth: guitar, Eric Plaks: piano; 8 PM Stephen Gauci: sax, Santiago Leibson: piano, Shawn Lovato: bass, Colin Hinton: drums; 9pm Paul Austerlitz: bass and contrabass clarinet, Don Slatoff: bass clarinet, Ehran Elisha: drums; 10pm Bonnie Kane: sax, Hans Tammen: buchla, John Loggia: drums, Jon Panikkar: drums at Scholes St. Studios

12/14 day 4 of the annual Roots & Ruckus Festival at the Jalopy and Jalopy Tavern.7:00 PM – Johanna Wacker 7:30 PM – The Skipping Stones 8:00 PM – captivating flamenco/Sicilian songstress Julia Patinella 8:30 PM – Orbisonesque crooner Bobby Blue the Balladeer 9:00 PM – rising star banjo player Nora Brown 9:30 PM – folk noir impresario Feral Foster 10:00 PM – multi-instrumental Americana talent Ali Dineen 10:30 PM – Americana jamband road warriors Spirit Family Reunion 11:00 PM – Rashad Brown. Stage 2: Jalopy Tavern 7:00 PM – Miss Maybell & Charlie Judkins; 8:00 PM – sizzling blues guitar genius Michaela Gomez 9:00 PM – The Homestead Street Band 10:00 PM – psychedelic soul band Frankie Sunswept & The Sunwrays11:00 PM – Wyndham Baird & Band

12/14, 7:30 PM ruthlessly funny, politically satirical faux-folk duo Friends Who Folk (Rachel Wenitsky and Ned Riseley) at Union Hall, Union St. north of 7th Ave in Park Slope, $10

12/14, 7:30 PM Rajrupa Chowdhury plays ragas on the sarod at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

12/14, 8 PM intense, pyrotechnic oudist and ngoni virtuoso Brandon Terzic plays Middle Eastern and west African sounds followed at 10 by  feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes, . Bulla are also here on 12/23 at 10

 12/14, 8 PM indie classical rising stars  TAK Ensemble play world premieres by Younge and Lopez  at Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church, Harlem , 521 W 126th St, sug don

 12/14, 9 PM  Super Yamba play their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Bar Chord for the tip jar. Then on 12/19 at 7:30 they’re at at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under ,$30 otherwise

12/14, 9 PM  Andrew Vladeck – whose lyrically-driven songs careen from stark oldtimey tunes to epic, cinematic anthems – at Pete’s

12/14, 10 PM fiery electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at Skinny Dennis

12/15, 11 AM the Aizuri Quartet play a program TBA at Subculture, $20, coffee and breakfast snacks included

 12/15, 2 PM the legendary  Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio play an all-Beethoven program at the Town Hall, $20

12/15, 5 PM sharply lyrical southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner,  intense, soaring harmonium player/singer Elana Low and haunting folk noir/Americana songwriter Emily Frembgen at LIC Bar

12/15, 5 PM repeating 12/18 at 7 Eric Silberger, violin; Laura Metcalf, cello; and bandleader/impresario Yelena Grinberg, piano play works by Clara and Robert Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms and Robert Schumann at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

12/15, meet at the Washington Square arch at 5:45, march to Tompkins Square Park at 6 PM, this year’s Unsilent Night electronic music procession is a NYC institution and one of the funnest, trippiest things you can do this holiday season. Download one of the twinkling piece’s four tracks for your phone, stream it or borrow one of composer Phil Kline‘s original cassettes for your boombox. Fun for the whole family!

 12/15-16, 7 PM the annual Rotunda Holiday Concert with all-star indie classical choir Roomful of Teeth, composer/singer/viollinist Caroline Shaw and percussion trio Tigue at the Guggenheim, $25 standing room avail

12/15, 8 PM shreddy female-fronted heavy psych/metal band Thrilldriver followed by the similarly dark, more eclectic, psychedelic  enigmatic Lorraine Leckie and her killer band at the big room at the Rockwood

12/15, 9:30 PM exhilarating acoustic guitar instrumentalist Lyle Brewer – like John Fahey on steroids – at Pete’s

 12/15, 9:30 PM ferociously dynamic, tuneful, female-fronted power trio Castle Black  at Our Wicked Lady, $10

 12/16, 7 PM Greg Lewis’ brilliant, fearlessly political Organ Monk Trio at 55 Bar

12/16, 7 PM female composers night: violinist Meg Okura, Tracy Yang, and the Jen Allen Jazz Orchestra at Shapeshifter Lab, $15s

12/16, 7:30 PM riveting, charismatic, intuitive pianist Karine Poghosyan plays two Beethoven Sonatas plus the Liszt solo piano arrrangement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony at Broadway Presbyterian Church, 601 W 114th St at Broadway, $15 sug don

12/16, 8 PM feral bassist Brandon Lopez debuts new work for his trio and 4tet at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

12/16, 7:30 PM songwriter Adrienne S. Witt’s new play Unseen – “As the news of another black teen being killed by a white police officer covers every newspaper, Ava Janine Wright can’t help but be deeply affected. As the Chief Financial Officer at Bucchanan Trust Accounting Firm she feels guilty for not doing more to help her community. When her Ivy league education, position and money can’t protect her from the red tape of Buchanan Trust and her highschool friend Elijah is profiled by police; Ava decides it’s time to reassess her future,” at Dixon Place, $17 adv tix rec

12/16, 9:30 PM ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

12/17, 2 PM nimble tsimblist Pete Rushefsky leads a klezmer band at Poe Park in the Bronx, Grand Concourse at 192nd St., free

12/17 ,7 PM the Jack Quartet play a Catherine Lamb world premiere at the first-floor New School auditorium at 63 5th Ave. They’re back here on 12/18 playing works by Tyshawn Sorey and Clara Iannotta, free w rsvp

12/17, 8 PM Ultrafizz (pianist Nathaniel LaNasa and singer Lucy Degrahe) play works by Pauline Oliveros Meredith Monk, Guillaume de Machaut, and unknown 13th century choral composers at Arete Gallery, $15

 12/17, 8 PM soaring, politically relevant, brilliantly purposeful alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon  leads a quartet with Seth Trachy (tenor sax), Joel Mateo (drums), Chris Tordini (bass), Glenn Zaleski (piano) at Nublu 151, $15

12/17-22, 8:30/11 PM piano icon Kenny Barron leads his quintet at the Vanguard; then he’s there with a trio through 12/29

12/17-21, 8:30/11 PM iconic, tuneful Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander at Birdland, $30 bar seating avail

12/17, 8:30 PM smartly tuneful oldschool soul/psych-pop songwriter Mimi Oz at Pete’s

12/17, 9 PM wickedly torchy noir and new wave songwriter Julia Haltigan at 11th St Bar

12/18, 7:30 PM surrealist avant garde free jazz collective thingNY play”audio-visual chamber music and sonic theaters” – works by Paul Pinto, Jennifer Walshe, Sam Scranton, Jesse Marino and a Robert Ashley world premiere at Arete Gallery, $15

12/18, 8 PM the album release show by  Peach and Tomato – Sana Nagano -violin and Leonor Falcón -viola plus guitarist Juanma Trujillo;s Quartet at Scholes St. Studios

12/18, 8 PM Spycatchers ( amazing, psychedelic instrumentalists Sandcatchers  doing their Middle Eastern set)  at Erv’s on Beekman,2122 Beekman Ph, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, B/D to Prospect Pk

12/19, 7:30 PM Los Rumberos del Callejón bring their salsa out of the alley at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, get there early

12/19, 8 PM the Bushwick Book Club – a lit-rock collective including both some of NY’s smartest songwriting talent along with some dorky open mic lifers – at Barbes

 12/19, 8:30 PM lyrical pianist Jason Yeager and quintet play the album release show for his brilliant, latin-inspired new protest jazz record at the Cell Theatre, $15

12/19, 8:30 PM a klezmer dance party with Khanike Tanzhoyz at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

12/19, 10 PM the world’s darkest, slinkiest, most blackly funny crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy  at Bar Lunatico

12/19, 11 PM catchy, politically fearless soulstress Alice Lee – Nina Simone meets Fiona Apple, equally psychedelic and torchy – at Pete’s

12/20, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by slinky, hypnotic percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at Barbes

12/20, 8 PM hilarious original oldtimey-style hokum blues songwriter Al Duvall followed by a quartet covering Fats Waller led by the wonderful Joanna Sternberg alongside Charlie Burnham, Joe Cohn, and Anthony Coleman. at the American Can Factory, 232 3rd St., Gowanus $15

 12/20, 8 PM “join Brooklyn’s premier Dolly Parton coverband, Doll Parts for a holiday celebration of our Lord and savior Dolly Parton,” at the Bell House, $16

12/20-21, 8 PM amazingly eclectic, alternately punishing and subtle drummer Ches Smith‘s quartet with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Liberty Ellman (guitar), Nick Dunston (bass) at Happy Lucky No. 1 Galllery, $20

12/20, 8 PM trio improvisations: Ras Moshe with Dave Miller and Dave Ross; 9pm Jack DeSalvo with Tom Cabrera and Dmitry Ishenko; 10pm Matt Lavelle with Evan Crane and Leonid Galaganov at Scholes St. Studios $10

12/20, 9 PM deviously funny twin-trombone dub reggae crew Super Hi-Fi play their sick dub versions of xmas songs at Bar Chord

12/20, midnight legendary 90s Brooklyn psychedelic funk unit Groove Collective reunite at Drom, $15

12/21, 4 PM jangly, intense, soaring bandleader/guitarist/bassist Debby Schwartz followed at 5 by Bubble‘s Dave Foster at Pete’s

12/21, 7 PM ambient guitarist and Bowie collaborator Gerry Leonard a.k.a. Spooky Ghost at the basement room at the Rockwood, $15

12/21, 8 PM dark cabaret legend Sanda Weigl and her Romany-flavored band at Barbes

12/21, 8ish popular, gritty, propulsive 90s indie rockers Versus at Elsewhere, $12

12/21, 10 PM first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall and his killer band at Skinny Dennis. He’s also here on 12/28

12/21, 10 PM hard-hitting bassist Dawn Drake & Zapote‘play psychedelic Afrobeat and funk at Shrine

12/22, 11 AM cellist Astrid Schween leads her ensemble at Subculture, $20, coffee and breakfast snacks included

12/22, 7:30 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton followed at 10:30 by tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson leading his quintet at Smalls

12/22, 8 PM epically soaring psychedelic art-rock/chamber pop pianist/bandleader Greta Gertler and innumerable special guests at Barbes

12/22, 8 PM smart, darkly pensive third-stream jazz pianist Noa Fort at the small room at the Rockwood

12/22, 8 PM trumpeter Matt Lavelle’s improvisational outfit 12 Houses celebrate their 10th anniversary at Scholes St. Studios sug don

12/23, 7:30 PM Camille Thurman – a double threat as nuanced singer and intense tenor saxophonist – leads her quintet at Smalls

12/23, 7:30 PM mostly-female, kinetic klezmer/cumbia/cinematic jamband Isle of Klezbos at Joe’s Pub, $20

12/24, 8 PM the annual klezmer show at Barbes with plenty of usual suspects – Ben Holmes, Michael Winograd, Matt Darriau all possible – playing classics and their own material

 12/24, 8:30 PM elegant bop-era guitar legend Gene Bertoncini plays a rare solo show at the Bar Next Door $12

12/24. 9:30 PM the Microscopic Septet’s Paul Shapiro leads his band playing a live klezmer jazz score to the cilent film His People – a crazy 1925 Russian-Jewish family drama – at the 14th Street Y, 344 E 14th St, $20. Then on 12/26 at 8 he and his Ribs & Brisket Revue plays theme music from Mrs. Maisel with special guest Eleanor Reissa at City Vineyard, $20

12/26, 8 PM deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. at Otto’s

12/26, 10 PM Pangari & the Socialites play classic ska and rocksteady – most of it from the 60s Skatalites catalog – at Barbes

12/27, 4 PM whirlwind klezmer violin icon Alicia Svigals plays her soundtrack to the cult classic 1920s silent film The Ancient Law,  at Theater for the New City,155 First Ave, free

 12/27, 5 PM charmingly inscrutable Parisienne jazz chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band at Club Bonafide,$20.

12/27-28, 7/9 PM powerful jazz belter – and Gil Scott-Heron reinventor –  Charenee Wade leads her group at Ginny’s Supper Club, $20

12/27, 7:30 PM wry, gruffly entertaining vintage Springsteenian blue-collar songwriter Al Lee Wyer at Freddy’s

 12/27, 8 PM the Skyline Salsa Band at FM Jersey City, $10

12/27, 8 PM electric, electric C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts followed by the world’s darkest, slinkiest, most blackly funny crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Barbes

12/27, 9 PM furiously lyrical, charismatic soul-rockers NO ICE followed by fifth-wave garage punks the Veda Rays at Alphaville, $11

12/27, 9:30 PM deviously hilarious, charismatic oldtimey New Orleans swing songwriter Carsie Blanton at Rough Trade, $15 adv tix rec

12/28, 8 PM repeating 12/29 at 3 percussionist Alessandra Belloni‘s  witchy tarantella band play a conceptual concert, Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna – the premise is that god is a black woman – at Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave, $25

12/28, 10 PM the Bubble leader Dave Foster’s retro jazz song project the Gershwin Bros with the transcendent Erica Smith on vocals at Barbes

12/29, 6 PM intuitive, lyrical pianist  Melody Fader and Momenta Quartet violinist Emilie-Anne Gendron play works by Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms, Bach, Chopin and Kreisler at the TownHouse Bar, 236 E 58th St, wow, Carnegie Hall quality for pregamers

12/29, 8 PM well-liked, fearlessly political LES soul-rock songwriter/chanteuse Dina Regine,, dark blues/folk noir/oldschool soul songwriter Kelley Swindall and Diane Gentile – who has the Dream Syndicate’s incendiary Jason Victor on lead guitar – at 11th St Bar

12/29, 10 PM guitarslinger Mallory Feuer’s fiery Patti Smith-ish band the Grasping Straws at Alphaville, $10

12/29, 10 PM timeless second-wave punk band the New Bomb Turks – whose albums have the best titles of any band, ever – at St. Vitus $25 gen adm

12/30, 7 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez‘s 4th annual goodbye party – saluting some of those who’ve left us this year – at Pangea

12/30, 8 PM dark intense lyrical southwestern gothic/paisley underground rockers Shanghai Love Motel at  at Arlene’s, $10

12/30, 9ish bouncy live hip-hop groove band the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble at the Knitting Factory, $18

12/31, 7 PM sharply lyrical pianist Kelly Green at the Fat Cat

12/31, 7 PM the annual New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace with the Cathedral Choir and Orchestra led by director of music Kent Tritle with special guests Judy Collins and organist David Briggs at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, free

12/31, 9ish clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  at Barbes, $20

12/31, 11 PM funnest New Year’s event in town is Paolo Bordignon playing a program TBA on the massive Aeolian-Skinner organ at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, 52nd/Park Ave, free

Full calendar for January 2020 coming on Jan 1

1/1-2 7:30 PM the core of the early 90s Smalls scene: Peter Bernstein (guitar), Aaron Goldberg (piano), Omer Avital (bass) at Mezzrow, $20

1/1, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10

1/1, 9 PM sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece and group at the Fat Cat

1/2, 7 PM poignant, nuanced jazz singer Amy Cervini leads her quartet at 55 Bar

1/2, 7:30 PM ferocious rising star saxophonist Chet Doxas leads a trio at Smalls

1/2, 7:30 PM Alicia Olatuja at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised. The soul belter has been super popular since singing at the second Obama inauguration. Opinions vary on  the flash vs. substance factor

1/2-5, 7:30/9:30 PM purist trumpeter Sean Jones leads his acoustic “electric quartet” at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/2, 8 PM oldschool latin soul and upbeat Americana with Nikki and the Human Element at Otto’s

1/2. 8 PM ish grim slowcore band Cathari at St. Vitus, $10

1/2, 8 PM the Underground Spiritual Ground, a new supergroup and Anbessa Orchestra spinoff exploring the connection between African-American spirituals, Ethiopian and Caribbean music followed by purposefully atmospheric indie classical guitarist Gyan Riley at Barbes

1/2. 8:30 PM sitarist Galen Passen and band mash up Celtic and Indian themes at the Jalopy, $15

1/2. 8:30 ish psychedelic supergroup the Elgin Marbles feat. members of Love Camp 7, Dervisi and Peter Stampfel’s jug band at Troost

1/2-5, 8:30 PM a Herbie Nichols 100th bday celebration at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the 1/5 show with Roswell Rudd’s Trombone Tribe plays Herbie Nichols with Deborah Weisz, Josh Roseman, Art Baron, Steve Swell (trombones) Bob Stewart (tuba) Steven Bernstein (conductor, trumpet)

1/2, 10 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin is very busy early this month. He’s at the Fat Cat tonight, then back here on 1/7 at 7 followed at 9 by exploratory, brassy salsa dura band La Sonora Nuyorkina, then back on 1/14 at 7. He’s also at Smalls 1/3-4 at 7:30 PM where he’s followed at 10:30 by  sizzling postbop saxophonist Mike DiRubbo’s quartet with Brian Charette on organ.

1/3, 7:30 PM composers Fiona Gillespie and Elliot Cole premiere their new suite, a modern adaptation of the 18th-century Scottish ballad Tam Lin at 1 Rivington St., $15

1/3-4, 8 PM, repeating 1/4 also at 2 PM and 1/7 at 7:30 PM th NY Philharmonic play works by Mozart, Haydn and Respighi, $34 tix avail

1/3,  8 PM playfully lyrical, fearlessly political superduo Kill Henry Sugar – guitar/banjo mastermind Erik Della Penna and drummer Dean Sharenow – followed at 10 by Rana Santacruz – the Mexican Shane MacGowan, but without the booze if you can imagine that – at Barbes

1/3, 8 PM intense, soaring harmonium player/singer Elana Low at Branded Saloon

1/3, 8 PM the NJ Symphony Orchestra  with pianist Inon Barnatan play Smetana’s The Moldau, Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto and excerpts from Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet at NJPAC in Newark, $20 tix avail

1/3. 9 PM  moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly at the small room at the Rockwood. Fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/roadhouse jamband Lizzie & the Makers  are just down the block at 10 at the big room

1/3. 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with the David Gibson/Jared Gold Hammond B3 organ band at the Fat Cat

1/4, 2:30 PM the NY Classical Players perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132 at the NYPL for the Performing Arts out back of Lincoln Center free

1/4, 6 PM wildly eclectic, edgy, lyrical soul/jazz cellist/singer Marika Hughes followed at 8 by the furry-suited, oldtimey jazz Xylopholks and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

1/4, 8 PM trippy, dubby roots reggae and ska sounds with Avo & Skalopy at the Jalopy Tavern

1/4, 8 PM darkly lyrical psychedelic pop songwriter Jennifer Hall at the Parkside

1/4-5, 8 PM playwright Sarah Krasnow and bassist James IIgenfritz at Honey’s, 93 Scott Ave, Bushwick, L to Jefferson St., $10

1/4, 9 PM impassioned, politically fearless soul/blues singer Kemp Harris and band at the big room at the Rockwood, $20

1/4, 8:30 PM the Delorean Sisters – who do funny oldtimey acoustic covers of cheesy 80s pop songs – at Freddy’s

1/4, 9ish  slinky, hypnotic, percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at the Owl

1/4, 9ish pummeling oldschool Brit-style punk band Krimewatch plus shrieky, sludgy noise-doom band Skourge at St. Vitus, $12

1/4, 10:30 PM Los Cumpleanos – with Nestor Gomez – vox/percussion; Lautaro Burgos – drums; Eric Lane – keyboards; Alex Asher – trombone and others playing trippy, dubwise tropical psychedelia, and the latin/Balkan/New Orleans-tinged Underground Horns at Drom, $10\

1/5, 2 PM pianist Marika Bournaki plays Beethoven sonatas including the Hammerklavier at Bargemusic, $35/$30 sr/$20stud

1/5, 3 PM bassist Jeremy McCoy and pianist Aurelia Mika Chang perform works by Domenico Dragonetti, Reinhold Gliere, Arni Egilsson, and Vilmos Montag at St Pauls Chapel downtown, free, recpetion to follow

1/5, 4 PM  the intense, historically inspired oldtime blues/gospel Piedmont Blūz string band at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $10

1/5, 5:30 PM brilliant pianist  Emilio Solla’s Tango Jazz Orchestra at Birdland, $30 gen adm. Followed at 9;30 (separate $30 adm) by the fearlessly relevant, toweringly intense Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, who are also back here on 1/19

1/5. 7ish metalcore shredders Steel Bearing Hand, the even faster death metal Vomit Forth and the murkier Frozen Soul at St. Vitus, $12

1/5, 7 PM Middle Eastern-inspired cellist Ian Maksin at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

1/5, 7 P M Wit & Daniel: – a new duo project featuring atmospheric jazz guitarist, Prawit Siriwat, and improvising bassist, Daniel Durst – plus the similarly ambient Matt Forker, guitar and compositions; Lesley Mok, drums; Jonah Wolfson, drums; Lisa Hoppe, bass; David Acevedo, trumpet; Gabe Fraivillig, trombone and Sonya Belaya at Spectrum, $15

1/5, 8 PM Monograms – who do as good a mid-80s Cure impression as any band alive – at Alphaville, $10

1/5, 8 PM perennially tuneful, pensively lyrical Americana janglerocker Mike Ferrio of Tandy and Good Luck Mountain at 11th St. Bar

1/6-8, 8:30 PM the powerfully resonant multimedia concert Broken Silence with“Erin Rogers (tenor saxophone), Kristen McKeon (alto saxophone), Dan Joseph, Dev Ray and Alex Lahoski (ebow steel string acoustic guitars) and Craig Shepard (narrator) “present music supporting listeners to engage with text drawn from court testimony connected with the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church:” a tthe DiMenna Center, The point is to create a sonically healing space. No charge for admission. Seating is limited rsvp req 

1/5, 8:30ish  cinematic guitarist Pat Irwin and boisterous swing/ska trombonist J. Walter Hawkes  at Troost

1/6, 9ish new Brookliyn honkytonk band Lissy & the Jacks at the Jalopy Tavern

1/6, 10 PM haphazard dark punkish female-fronted band Cruel Children at Muchmore’s

1/7, 7 PM JAV (guitar, Buenos Aires), Joanna Mattrey (viola), Andrew Drury (percussion) improvise at Soup & Sound ,sug don

1/7-8, 7:30-/9:30 PM Ryan Truesdell leads his big band playing an all Bob Brookmeyer program at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/7, 8 PM  multistylistic, lyrical, improvisational cellist Rufus Cappodocia solo followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes, $10

1/7, 8 PM Florida retro 60s soul/funk band Patrick & the Swayzees at the Mercury, $10. Followed at 10 ($10 separate admission) by  female-fronted stoner boogie band the Loud Soft Loud

1/7, 9 PM wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers at 11th St Bar

1/7, 11 PM noir-tinged pianist Frank Kimbrough leads a trio at Birdland, $30 at the bar

1/8, 1 PM the Kila Quartet play Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K 465 (“Dissonance”) and Bartók’s harrowing String Quartet No. 3 at the Greene Space, free w/rsvp

1/8, 7:30/9 PM playfully lyrical French jazz singer/composer Camille Bertault with similarly vivid pianist Leo Genovese at Mezzr0w, $20

1/8. 8 PM haunting, fearsomely powerful soul belter and noir Americana songstress Karen Dahlstrom at the Svendale Tasting Room, 486 Court St. (4th Pl/Luquer), Carroll Gardens, F to Carroll St

1/8, 8 PM otherworldly French-Algerian singer Ourida with her combo at Barbes

1/8, 8 PM ferociously powerful, politically fearless southern gothic guitar/banjo player Amythyst Kiah at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $20 gen adm

1/8, 9 PM Grace Kelly All Day – imagine the Talking Heads with genuine menace, echoes of dark punk and Laurel canyon psychedelia – at St. Vitus, $10

1/9, 7 PM soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis at 55 Bar

1/9-10, 7:30/930 PM  this era’s most cutting-edge, politically relevant large jazz ensemble, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society at the Jazz Gallery, $30

1/9, 7:30/9:30 PM  terse, purposeful rising star postbop saxophonist Melissa Aldana leads a quartet with Shai Maestro on piano at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/9, 1/12 and 1/15-17, 730 PM Garrett Fisher’s Indian and Japanese-inspired Blood Moon, “A contemporary response to a 15th century Noh play, Blood Moon uses choreography, puppetry, and a Taiko-infused score to create a meditation on the end of life, the nature of joy, regret, and whether atonement is possible,” at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, $35 tix avail

1/9, 7:30 PM, repeating 1/11 at 8 pianist Paul Lewis performs Grieg’s Romantic Piano Concerto with the NY Philharmonic who then tackle Richard Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, $32 tix avail

1/9, 8 PM twinkly, chimey female-fronted dreampop/janglerock band Lunar Vacation at Baby’s All Right, $15

1/9, 8 PM bassist Michael Bates’ potentially incendiary chamber jazz band Acrobat with Mazz Swift-violin; Sara Schoenbeck-bassoon followed by eclectic violinist Dana Lyn’s protean, psychedelic, ecologically woke jazz project Mother Octopus at the Owl

1/9, 8 PM unpredictable sound sculptor Thessia Machado, electronic performer Melody Loveless, instrumental builder Viola Yip and flutist Roberta Michel explore diverse textures at Arete Gallery $15

1/9, 8:30pm cuatro shredder Jorge Glem & pianist Cesar Orozco ;9:15pm –  polymath latin jazz pianist Arturo O’Farrill leads a small group; 10:00pm – majestic, slinky cumbia accordionist/bandleader Gregorio Uribe ; 10:45pm Afro-Cuban salsa group Okan’11:45pm – psych-funk/disco group People of Earth at Drom, $15 adv tix rwc. Uribe and band are also here on 1/17 for the same deal, general admission

1/9, 7 PM eclectic indie classical/Americana banjo player Jayme Stone at the basement room at the Rockwood, $15. At 9 PM unpredictably fun, funny  art-rock/psychedelic soul band the Academy Blues Project  are at the small room there, and on 1/24 at 10 PM they’re at Shrine for $10

1/9, 10:30 PM colorful bassist Joris Teepe leads a quintet with Wayne Escoffery on sax and Leo Genovese on piano at Smalls

1/10, 6 PM soaringly lyrical, fearlessly intense acoustic tunesmith Linda Draper at the American Folk Art Museum

1/10. 6 PM  irrepressible, historically informed, crystalline-voiced folk noir/art-rock/loopmusic songwriter Elisa Flynn and pensive lo-fi chamber pop band Teething Veils at Holo, sug don

1/10, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter followed at 10 by maginative, purist jazz drummer Dan Pugach’s Nonet at 55 Bar

1/10, 7 PM playfully intense female-fronted Balkan band Blisk;  7:45pm flamenco funk guitarist Juan Carmona ; 8:30pm flamenco songstress/guitarist Mamselle Ruiz; 9:15pm Digging Roots – who mash up gutter blues, folk noir and dub reggae -10:00pm Haitian hip-hop artist Vox Sambou ; 10:45pm  kitchen sink Brazilian/C&W/funk/New Orleans band Nation Beat ;11:30pm Danish klezmer band Mames Babagenush at Drom, free

1/10, 7 PM a rare US performance by stark, hypnotic Siberian Sakha Republic folk artists and khomus players Yuliyana Krivoshapkina and Nachyn Choreve at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

1/10, 7:30/9:30 PM purposeful Serbian composr Rale Micic on guitar with Jared Gold switching from organ to guitar – wow! – and Jason Tiemann on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12, should be interesting

1/10, 8 PM bassist Sean Lovato‘s Microcosms band with Patti Kilroy on violin and Santiago Liebson on piano followed by bassist Lisa Hoppe‘s Jein trio with Todd Neufeld on guitar at Scholes St Studios

1/10, 8 PM trumpeter Ben Holmes’ broodingly Middle Eastern/klezmer-tinged Naked Lore trio followed at 10 by followed at 10 by Super Yamba playing their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Barbes

1/10, 8 PM charismatic loopmusic cellist Maya Beiser plays her new album Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar – a new cello arrangement of Bowie’s last album – at the World Financial Center, free

1/10, 8 PM ambitiously lyrical latin jazz pianist Aruan Ortiz at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery $20

1/10-11, 8 PM Jeremy Schonfeld’s epic 200-person rock opera Iron & Coal, exploring the death of his Holocaust survivor father at the Lynch Theatre at John Jay College, 524 W 59th St. $35 tix avail

1/10, 9 PM a rare solo show by Girls on Grass’ psychedelic guitar goddess Barbara Endes followed by catchy funk-punk/new wave band Dolly Trolly at Branded Salooon

1/10 ,9 PM subtle, purposeful soul guitarist/singer Julia Ziwic at the small room at the Rockwood; at 11 PM lively oldtimey swing road warriors the Bumper Jacksons are at the basement room there for $15

1/10, 10 PM the Hillbenders play their deadpan hilarious bluegrass version of the Who’s Tommy followed by Celti-grass band We Banjo 3 at Iridium, $25

1/10, 11:30 PM brilliant Danish klezmer jazz ensemble Mames Babagenush at Drom, free. 1/11 at 8:30 they’re at Mehanata for $20, then 1/13 at 7:30 they’re at the Manhattan JCC for $25, then 1/18 they’re at Golden Fest

1/11, 5 PM chanteuse/uke player Dahlia Dumont’s Blue Dahlia playing edgy, smartly lyrically-fueled, jazz-infused tunes in English and French with classic chanson and Caribbean influences followed eventually at 7 by edgy dobro player and Americana/jazz singer  Abbie Gardner at the small room at the Rockwood. Lush, wildly eclectic pan-Mediterranean art-rock/latin/chanson ensemble Banda Magda play down the block at the big room at 9;30 for $15

1/11, 5 PM Sufi percussionist/vocalist Kamyar Arsani at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $20

1/11 ,7:30/9:30 PM ambitious, smart, noir-inclined tenor saxophonist Patrick Cornelius  with Rick Rosato on bass and Carl Allen on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12

1/11, 4 PM tango guitarist Adam Tully followed at 9:30 by  accordion genius Shoko Nagai’s haunting, increasingly loud and psychedelic Tokala Silk Road/klezmer mashup project and then at 11 by pyrotechnic singer Kamala Sankaram’s slinky, surfy, cinematic cumbia/Bollywood band Bombay Rickey at Barbes

1/11, 6 PM the Ekstasis cello-piano Duo play French chamber music by Faure, Ravel, Poulenc and others at Merkin Concert Hall, free

1/11, 7 PM Sounds of Siberia feat. Yuliyana and Nachyn; spellbinding Palestinian oudist Huda Asfour 7:45 PM ; Afro-latin jazz saxophonist Cochemea 8:30 PM;’ bhangra mastermind Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East 9:15 PM ; psychedelic latin soul band Alba and the Mighty Lions 10:00 PM excellent psychedelic tropicalia/live dub band Combo Lulo 10:45 PM’ Haitian conscious rapper Vox Sambou 11:30 PM; Lyon-based rai bandleader Sofiane Saidi and Mazalda 12:15 AM; more trippy dubwise tropical grooves with Los Cumpleaños 1:00 AM at Drom, $10

 1/11, 7 PM pensive Virginia Americana chanteuse Dori Freeman at the basement room at the Rockwood, $12

 1/11, 7:30/9:30 PM rapturous  pan-Asian singer/multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu plays her haunting, elegaic solo Zero Grasses suite at the Jazz Gallery, $30

1/11. 8 PM pensive, anthemic parlor pop songwriter Jess Clinton followed by the more trad front-porch style Diana Jones at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

1/11, 8 PM  soprano Lucy Dhegrae sings works on themes of trauma and triumph by Eve Beglarian, Osnat Netzer, Katherine Young plus pieces by Guillaume de Machaut, Poulenc and others at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

1/11, 9 PM xplosive, theatrical, phantasmagorical indie/metal band A Deer A Horse followed by scampering, irrepressibly fun girlpunk/psychedelic band Sharkmuffin at the Broadway, $12. Sharkmuffin are also at Our Wicked Lady on 1/19 at 10:30 for $10

1/12, noon fiery ecological activist/bandleader Rev. Billy and his massive original gospel-style choir at Joe’s Pub, $15

1/12, 2 PM exhilarating klezmer/latin/cumbia jamband Metropolitan Klezmer and their mostly-female sister band Isle of Klezbos at the Cutting Room, $20 adv tix rdc

1/12, 5 PM the Sometime Boys’ riveting, powerful, theatrical frontwoman Sarah Mucho at Freddy’s

1/12, 5 PM, repeating 1/15 at 7 fearless impresario/pianist Yelena Grinberg plays Handel keyboard suites  at her upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

1/12, 5:30 PM fiery pianist Connie Han at Birdland, $30 at the bar. Followed at 7 (separate $20 adm) by whirlwind jazz drummer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom

1/12, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

1/12, 7 PM the multimedia performance Come‘Round Right pairs sculptural set pieces by Mara Baldwin, inspired by Shaker furniture and crafts, with music by Sarah Hennies based on Shaker hymns, illustrating a Shaker ghost town and its legacy at National Sawdust, $25 adv  tix rec

1/12, 7ish eclectic Americana/front porch folk songstresss Mary-Elaine Jenkins, janglerock guitar maven Teddy Thompson at around 8, then a lame, fussy faux-soul duo and at 10 irrepressible, high-voltage Americana harmony trio Red Molly at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix available at the Mercury

1/12, 7 PM soaring, politically relevant, brilliantly purposeful alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon with pianist Gerald Clayton at Teatro Latea 107 Suffolk St.,, $20/$15 stud

1/12. 8 PM sound artists Todd Barton, Rachelle Rahmé, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe build a hypnotic dystopic dreamscape at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/12, 8 PM a super rare NYC appearance by New Zealand’s trombone-driven Rodger Fox Big Band with singer Erna Ferry at Shapeshifter Lab, sug don

1/12, 8:30 PM articulate, lyrical third-stream jazz pianist Laila Biali at the basement room at the Rockwood, $10

1/13, 6 PM the Greenpoint Songwriters Exchange – a diverse bunch playing everything from folk noir to Costelloesque, literary rock to Indian ragas and oldschool soul – at Pete’s

1/13, 6:30 PM bassist Lisa Hoppe with Samantha Boshnak on trumpet and Stephen Boegehold on drums at the Bar Next Door, free wow

 1/13, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads his group from behind the Rhodesl at 55 Bar

1/13, 7:30 PM in reverse order at the Poisson Rouge: Kevin Eubanks and  erudite pianist Orrin Evans,, whirlwind jazz drummer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, plus allstar all-female jazz crew Artemis, $25 adv tix rec

1/13, 8 PM the String Orchestra of Brooklyn celebrate the release of their first studio album, afterimage, with a performance of Chris Cerrone’s High Windows and Jacob Cooper’s Stabat Mater Dolorosa at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/13 8:30 PM exhilarating klezmer/latin/cumbia jamband Metropolitan Klezmer at Drom, free

1/13, midnight boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at the Ear Inn

1/14, 7 PM dark cinematic klezmer art-rockers Barbez‘s Dan Kaufman in a rare duo with percussionist/vibraphonist John Bollinger followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes, $10

1/14, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian at 55 Bar

1/14-15, 7:30/930 PM  the haunting, smokily atmospheric Michael Leonhart Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, $30. Anat Cohen joins the band on the 14th!

1/14 7:30 PM the Escher String Quartet with pianist Juho Pohjonen play the Debussy String Quartet plus works by Suk, Brahms and Janacek at Alice Tuly Hall, $34 tix avail

1/14, 8 PM the Istanbul Trio – who with oud, lyra, guitar, vocals, bass and percussion are really a sextet – at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

1/14, 8 PM sizzling Hungarian punk-folk/art-rock string band Bohemian Betyars at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

1/14, 8 PM a good terse, minimalistically intense, lyrically haunting female songwriter twinbill: Erin Durant and Claire Cronin at Trans-Pecos, $10

1/15, 6 PM multistylistic jazz singer/bandleader Tammy Scheffer followed by hard-hitting bassist Dawn Drake & Zapote‘playing psychedelic Afrobeat and funk  at the small room at the Rockwood.  Pastoral gothic accordion art-rock band Sam Reider & the Human Hands are down the block at the big room for $15 at 7

1/15, 7:30 PM cutting-edge, fearlessly woke postbop jazz powerhouse the Curtis Bros. play the album release show for their new one at Dizzy’s Club, $35

1/15, 7:30 PM, 1/16-18 at 8 and 1/18 at 2 PM, “set in a graveyard filled with the persistent cries of visitors in mourning and the music of Zulu Isicathamiya singers , the death-fixated lamentation Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Boléro draws inspiration from Zakes Mda’s novel,  Cion and Ravel’s Boléro” at the Joyce Theatre, 175 Eighth Ave, $35 tix avail

1/15, 8 PM feral guitarist Brandon Seabrook leads a trio wih Dan Levin – cello and Henry Fraser – bass at Barbes

1/15-19, 8:30 PM darkly tuneful pianist Kris Davis leads a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the 1/18 show with Ingrid Laubrock (sax) Trevor Dunn (bass) Tom Rainey (drums) Mat Maneri (viola) and special guest Jen Shyu (voice)

 1/15, 8:30 PM pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s of the NY Gypsy All-Stars with pianist Ruslan Agababayev at Drom, $10

1/15, 10 PM hotshot fiddler Josie Toney‘s oldtimey string band at Pete’s

 1/15, 10:30 PM tight doom metal band Eternal Black at Arlene’s, $10

 1/16, 7 PM uncluttered, darkly diverse Americana band Kaylor & the Tin Cans at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

1/16, 7:30/9:30 PM bassist Chris Tordini leads a quartet with Red Wierenga on accordion and Anna Webber on tenor sax at the Jazz Gallery, $15

1/16, 7:30 PM Nicaraguan crooner Luis Enrique and wild cuatro band C4 Trio at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

1/16-19, 7:30/9:30 PM pyrotechnic postbop tenor saxophonist  David Murray leads his explosive octet at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/16, 7:30 PM noir-tinged art-rock bandleader Agnes Obel at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

1/16, 7:30 PM pianist Per Tengstrand plays Beethoven’s Moonlight, Appasionnata and Pathetique Sonatas at Scandinavia House, $25

 1/16, 7:30 PM acerbic, enigmatic, Lynchian parlor pop/new wave/avant garde band Dollshot followedc by hypnotic minimalist postrockers Matt McBane & Build at Shapeshifter Lab, $tba

 1/16, 730 PM oldtime Americana maven Dom Flemons at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under, $30 otherwise

1/16, 8 PM feral guitarist Brandon Seabrook‘s twin-drum band Die Trommel Fatale at Nublu 151, $15

1/16, 8 PM edgy lead guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band followed by explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Barbes

1/16, 8 PM a rare NYC performance by Luxemourg pianist Sabine Weyer with works by Bacri, Scriabin and Miaskovsky at Arete Gallery, $20

1/17, 2 PM mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti workshops her forthcoming Cindy Sherman-inspired chamber opera exploring pivotal moments in a woman’s life, with music by Ellen Reid, Paola Prestini and Missy Mazzoli at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec

1/17, 6 PM composer-collective Oracle Hysterical, with collaborators Hub New Music, premiere “an evening-length collection of songs inspired by the expeditions of a wide-ranging group of ambitious, gritty – and often naive, cruel, and myopic explorers. Text comes from the journals of European ‘New World’ explorers like Columbus, Cortes, and de Soto; Puritan women on their new frontier; the naturalist John James Audubon; the ill-fated Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott (whose Terra Nova expedition party never made it home); the ancient king Gilgamesh and his quest to cheat death; and the Chinese mariner, treasure seeker, and builder of giant ships Zheng He” at 1 Rivington St., $15

1/17, 6 PM intense, wickedly tuneful jazz oudist/guitarist Gordon Grdina with his Nomad Trio with pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer Jim Black, at the old Nublu, $10

1/17, 7:30 PM and then 1/18 starting at 6 PM and going til maybe 3 in the morning, NYC’s funnest annual music festival, Golden Fest, with over a hundred Balkan, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and other dance bands throughout five different rooms at Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope. Serbian sweets! Spinach pies! Various pickled munchies and more all included! R train to Prospect Ave, go up the hill, you can’t miss it.

1/17, 7 PM  jangly Laurel Canyon psych-folk songwriter Rebecca Turner at Buunni Performance Space, (4961 Broadway btw 207th Street and Isham in Inwood), $15

1/17, 7 PM, repeating 1/18 at 8 the fearlessly relevant, toweringly intense Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space, $25 tix avail

1/17, 8 PM American Contemporary Music Ensemble perform music of Gavin Bryars at the Tenri Institute, $25/$15 stud

1/17, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by  psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Gallo Bueno at Barbes

1/17, 8 PM a festival of Tatar song with the Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan and Eilenkrig Jazz Orchestra at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $25 tix avail

1/17-18, 8 PM polyrhythmic jams: Michael Formanek – bass; Mauricio Herrera – percussion; Noel Brennan – percussion; Patricia Brennan – vibraphone at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

 1/17, 9 PM the annual Dolly Parton bday singalong at the Jalopy, free

1/17, 9 PM noisy, unpredictably intense female-fronted guitar/drums/organ band Parlor Walls followed by punchy noiserockers Big Bliss at Alphaville, free

1/17, 9:30 PM fiery Portuguese twelve-string guitar sorceress Marta Pereira da Costa at Joe’s Pub, $25

1/17, 10 PM crunchy, individualistic fenale-fronted metal band Sister Thieves – guitar, synth and drums – at Arlene’s $10

1/17, 10:30 PM psychedelic janglerockers American String Conspiracy at Freddy’s

 1/17, 11 PM haphazard, unhinged doom metal band Ether Coven at St. Vitus, $12

1/18, 4 PM the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone), Ben Holmes (trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries, followed at 6 by wildly eclectic, edgy,lyrical soul/jazz cellist/singer Marika Hughes followed at 8 by intense, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leading his Tango Quartet and at 10 by ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

1/18, 7 PM fiery ecological activist/bandleader Rev. Billy and his massive original gospel-style choir at Buunni Performance Space, (4961 Broadway btw 207th Street and Isham in Inwood), $10, “nobody turned away”

1/18, 7 PM  unusually adventurous indie classical ensembles Hotel Elefant &  eclectic indie classical piano trio Bearthoven  play music by Fjóla Evans and Leaha Maria Villarreal at Arete Gallery, sug don

1/18, 8 PM Matt Sargent and Zach Rowden‘s Tide for ten basses, whooooah, at Scholes St Studios, $10

1/18, 8ish atmospherically anthemic Indian-influenced spacerock band Humeysha at Elsewhere, $12

1/18. 9 PM hip-hop artist Major Taylor followed by scorching political punk band the 1865 at BAM Cafe, get there early

1/18. 9 PM pounding, hypnotic no wave/noisecore band Kralice at St. Vitus, $12

1/18, 10 PM amusing weedhead rapper Kaheim Rivera followed by messy, funny female-fronted punk/80s band Ashjesus at the Broadway, $12

1/19, 3 PM Jessica Park, violin; Benjamin Larsen, cello; Hyungjin Choi, piano play works by Natalie Dietterich, Robert Sirota, Frank Bridge and Mozart at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place, downhill from 7th Ave, Park Slope, any train to Grand Army Plz, sugg don

1/19, 5 PM bassist Sam Suggs plays solo bass arrangements of famous and not so famous classical works tba at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/srs

1/19, 5:30 PM lavish, slinky latin noir big band jazz with the  Scott Reeves Jazz orchestra at Birdland, $30

1/19, 6:30 PM haunting Middle Eastern jazz bassist Petros Klampanis and his group followed eventually by similarly haunting violinist Layale Chaker at Drom, $20

1/19, 7 PM brilliant steel guitarist Mike Neer’s Steelonious – who do Monk covers in the same vein as Buddy Emmons –   followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

1/19, 7 PM pianists Brian Mark, Isabelle “Izzy” O’Connell, and Kathleen Supové join to explore the subject of migration and human struggle in a multidisciplinary setting with flutist Tessa Brinckman playing works by Meredith Monk, Missy Mazzoli, Randall Woolf, Howie Kenty, and Mary Kouyoumdjian, among others plus world premieres by Valerie Coleman and Raymond Deane at Arete Gallery $15

1/19, 9 PM Slovenian saxophonist Jan Kus’ Slavo Rican Assembly at the big room at the Rockwood $10

1/20, 7 ish epic haunting goth-tinged slowcore band Vestments, moody lo-fi keyboardist/singer Anni Rossi and the darkly armospheric Sondra Sun-Odeon at St. Vitus, $10

1/20, 7:30 PM soprano sax star Sam Newsome leads a quartet with Angelica Sanchez on piano at Smalls

1/20, 8/10:30 PM cutting-edge vibraphonist Joel Ross’ genuinely Good Vibes band at the Blue Note, $20 at the bar

1/20, 9;30 PM trumpeter Sonny Singh’s “revolutionary devotional Sikh music”project at Barbes

1/21, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, violinist Lauren Cauley leads a 21st century music ensemble at the Miller Theatre, free

1/21, 7:30 PM this era’s most fearlessly relevant, hard-hitting tenor saxophonist, JD Allen leads his explosive new trio at Smalls followed at 10:30 by charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy

1/21, 730 PM pianist Xiaohui Yang plays works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Faure, Chopin, Shulamit Ran and others at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $20

 1/21, 7:30/9:30 PM purist postbop jazz guitarist Ed Cherry leads his organ trio with Kyle Koehler on the B3 at the Jazz Standard, $30

1/22, 7 PM pianist Lucas Debargue plays works by Ravel and Scarlatti at National Sawdust, $25 adv tic rec

 1/22, 7:30 PM bassist Alexis Cuadrado leads a group playing live film scores forAlice Guy-Blaché’s The Consequences of Feminism and Algie the Miner, Harold M. Shaw’s The Land Beyond the Sunset and Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant at the World Financial Center, free

1/21-25, 8:30/11 PM iconic fire-and-ice jazz singer Karrin Allyson plays Mose Allison at Birdland, $30, wow, could be amazing

 1/22, 7 PM furious, politically fearless soul-punk/postrock band Algiers play the album release show for their new one at Rough Trade, free w/vinyl purchase

1/22, 8 PM singer Dida Pelled salutes obscure and cult favorite women songwriters including Connie Converse, Elizabeth Cotten, Molly Drake, Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega at Barbes

 1/22, 8 PM dark, savagely brilliant guitarist Ava Mendoza and viola sorceress Jessica Pavone at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery. They’re also there on 129

 1/22, 8:30 PM haunting Middle Eastern violinist Layale Chaker & Sarafand: Jake Charkey (cello) Phillip Golub (piano) Nick Dunston (bass) Adam Maalouf (percussion) at the Stone at the New School, $20

1/22, 9 PM lush, snidely lyrical parlor pop/new wave band Office Culture at the Sultan Room, $10

1/22, 10:30 PM shapeshifting pianist Sullivan Fortner solo at Mezzrow, $20

1/23, 7 PM plaintive Iranian classical songs with Amir Vahab and ensemble at the People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St, $15

1/23, 7:30 PM plush, balmy, playful oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under, $30 otherwise

1/23, 7:30 PM trippy dubwise tropical grooves with Los Cumpleaños at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

1/23. 7:30 PM organist Clara Gerdes plays her new arrangement of Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, as well as Julius Reubke’s iconically venomous Sonata on the 94th Psalm at St. Bartholomew’s Cathedral, free, wow

 1/23, 8 PM mutimedia artists and improvisers including  Sugar Vendil, Jean Carla Rodea, Popebama (Erin Rogers and Dennis Sullivan) play and debate the relevance of new music in a 21st century, historically-informed context at Arete Gallery, $15

1/23, 8 PM composer Scott Johnson and indie classical ensemble ensemble Contemporaneous  play relevant new works examining nationalism and racism, inspired by the sampled voices of immigrants to the US at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/23-24, 8 PM hauntingly jangly noir Americana/surf/punkgrass band the Sadies  at Union Pool,$20, yessssss, they slayed here the last couple of times

 1/23, 8 PM brooding Bulgarian art-rock chanteuse Ruth Koleva at Drom, $20 adv tix rec

1/23, 8 PM pianist Tianqi Du performs 13 pieces  from Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I & II, and Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87. at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $30 tix avail

1/23. 8 PM conversational pianist Jeffrey Siegel plays works by Grieg, Stenhammar, Sibelius, Nielsen, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff at Scandinavia House, $25

 1/23-26, 8:30 PM rapturous  pan-Asian singer/multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu leads a series of groups at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: 1/24 with violist Mat Maneri, remixed live by Ikue Mori

1/23, 9ish wild live techno with sax-and-drums monsters Moon Hooch at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix rec available at the Mercury

1/23, 9 PM Certain General guitarslinger Phil Gammage plays his dark Americana and blues at 11th St Bar

1/24, 7 PM trumpeter Kate Amrine plays the album release show for her new protest record with music by Gemma Peacocke, Kevin Joest, Jacob TV, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Ruby Fulton, Howie Kenty, and original compositions, joined by Ford Fourqurean on clarinet, Leanne Friedman on alto flute, and Richard Harris on trombone, t Spectrum, $15

1/24, 7 PM composer David ieri presents an “audacious” new live score for Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 silent film classic La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, at the Greene Space, $25

1/24, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by women composers Jacqueline Fontyn, Ursula Mamlok, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Elisabeth Lutyens, Galina Ustvolskaya at the Sharp Theatre at Juilliard, free, tix req 

1/2,4 8 PM best twinbill of the year so far: timeless, haunting, playful octogenarian Armenian jazz sage and multi-reedman Souren Baronian‘s Taksim followed by the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Barbes

1/24-25, 8 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play Jennifer Higdon’s elegiac blue cathedral, TCS’ first drumset concerto presentation, Just Say Yes, by Alexandra Gardner featuring Michael Blancaflor and Milhaud’s first cello concert with Kurt Behnke, both on Friday night’s performance. Saturday’s concert includes Sara Dudley’s soloist debut on the William Walton viola concerto; both shows conclude with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 at the DiMenna Center $25

1/24, 9 PM amazingly versatile, genuinely Hendrixian guitar shredder Viva DeConcini followed by bass sax monster Stefen Zeniuk’s punk mambo crew the NY Fowl Harmonic at Branded Saloon

1/24, 10 PM allusively haunting, minimalist folk noir singer Belle-Skinner at the Owl

1/24, 11ish uriously lyrical, charismatic soul-rockers NO ICE  at Footlight Bar

1/25, 4 PM high-energy Afro-Colombian trance-dance band Grupo Rebolu at Flushing Town Hall, $14

 1/25, 7 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez‘ annual goodbye party – saluting some of those who’ve left us this year – at Pangea, $25

1/25 7 PM Egyptian exile and firebrand songwriter Ramy Essam and visual artist Ganzeer team up with playwrights/ musicians The Lazours to commemorate and keep the hope of the Arab Spring alive .at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec

1/25, 7 PM charismatic punk classical cellist/singer Meaghan Burke followed at 8 by guitarist Marco Cappelli, accordionist Shoko Nagai and drummer Joe Hertenstein performing a live soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein’s silent film “Strike.” at Spectrum $15

1/25, 7:30 PM the Rosamunde String Quartet play works by Mendelssohn, Kevin Puts and Schubert at Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving Pl, $18

 1/25, 8 PM NY Baroque Incorporated sing works by Handel, Lully, Muffat and Telemann at the Miller Theatre, $30 seats aavil

1/25, 9 PM the Dirty Waltz Band- a seven-piece group playing more than a dozen instruments in 3/4 time from Balkan, Irish, jazz, blues and American folk traditions – at the Jalopy, $15

 1/25, 10 PM slinky, hypnotic percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at Barbes

1/25, 11 PM reliably creepy gholabilly vets the Memphis Morticians at Footlight Bar

 1/25, 11 PM one of the great saxophonists in the history of ska, Dave Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7 at the Gutter, $7

 1/26, 2 PM a rare US appearance by raucous Chinese central plains party ensemble Zhou Family Band at Flushing Town Hall, $18

1/26, 5 PM guitarist John King & noir keyboardist and Dylan collaborator Mick Rossi improvise at Spectrum, $15

1/26, 7 PM guitarists Jim Campilongo and Steve Cardenas duke it out followed by paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

1/26, 8 PM high-voltage psychedelic cumbia/Afrobeat jamband MAKU Soundsystem  at C”Mon Everybody, $10

1/26, 8 PM pissed-off funny punkish music for the disenfranchised: irresistibly funny political all-female punk trio Witchslap, the even more pissed-off Bint, the even rougher Que Sick, the sardonically spot-on Anxious? Anxious!, haphazard dark punkish female-fronted band Cruel Children at Footlight Bar, $10

1/26, 9ish enigmatically noisy duo Woodhull, the similarly noisy funkmetalish French Nurses, Liebs and Samer Ghadry.at the Cobra Club, $10

1/26, midnight psychedelic cinematic Italophile instrumentalists/parodists Tredici Bacci at the Mercury, $10 adv tix rec

1/27, 7 PM jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Blackout at the Schomburg Center, free

 1/27, 7 PM atmospheric, psychedelic violinist/singer Concetta Abbate and Rose Stoller pull “ambient lullabies” out of the ether at Footlight Bar, sug don

1/27, 10ish  feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

1/28, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Vivian Fine ,Florence Price, Young-ja Lee, Priaulx Rainier and Mary Lou Williams at the Sharp Theatre at Juiliard, free , tix req 

1/28, 7:30 PM iconic art-rockers the Bang on a Can All-Stars play world premieres by Amanda Berlind, Alvin Curran, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Qasim Naqvi, plus Phil Kline’s Exquisite Corpses and Julius Eastman’s “super-groove” Stay on It at Merkin Concert Hall, $25

1/28, 8 PM haunting, magical Middle Eastern classical singer Shelley Thomas plays oud with classical ensemble Brooklyn Takht at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

1/28, 8 PM a sizzling New Orleans brass night at Drom: the badass, original all-female Brass Queens, hip hop-influenced Flowingos and diverse, latin-influenced Brass Monkeys, $10 gen adm

1/28, 8 PM the hauntingly hallucinatory film Mother Sparrow by Sonya Belaya and Eryka Dellenbach plus live music performance by Belaya’s ensemble Dacha and a live dance performance of Make the Brutal Tender by Nola Sporn Smith and Dellenbach, at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

1/28, 10 PM well-liked, fearlessly political LES soul-rock songwriter/chanteuse Dina Regine,at the Delancey $tba

1/29, 7 PM rainy-day art-rock/Balkan jazz singer Tamara Jokic followed at 8:30 by intense, rapturous Balkan/Middle Eastern ensemble the Secret Trio –Tamer Pinarbasi, Ismail Lumanovski & Ara Dinkjian – at Drom, $10

1/29, 7 PM Peter Abinger remixes Eric Wubbels’ piano live at the Austrian Cultural Center, free, res req. “Ablinger likes to think about Voices and Piano as his song-cycle, though nobody is singing in it: the voices are all spoken statements from speeches, interviews or readings. And the piano is not really accompanying the voices: the relation of the two components is to be seen more as a competition. Speech and music is being compared. We can also say: reality and perception. Reality/speech is continuous, perception/music is a grid, which tries to approach speech. Actually the piano part is the temporal and spectral scan of the respective voice, something like a coarse gridded photograph it is the analysis of the voice. Music analyses reality….”

1/29, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Miriam Gideon, Vítězslava Kapralova, Germaine Tailleferre, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Margaret Sutherland, Grete von Zieritz, at the Sharp Theatre at Juiliard, free , tix req

1/29-2/1, 7:30/9:30 PM this era’s most consistently interesting jazz pianist, Vijay Iyer at the Jazz Standard, $30. Solo on the 29th, with a trio the rest of the way plus special guest Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet on 2/1, wow

 1/29, 830 PM perennially interesting piano/percussion ensemble Yarn/Wire leads a series of groups at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: 1/31 with bassoonist Katie Young

 1/29, 9:30 PM ambient electroacoustic sitarist/composer Ami Dang at Joe’s Pub, $15

1/30, 7 PM thoughtfully explorator pianist Yoko MIwa leads her trio at Birdland, $20 at the bar

 1/30, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Lili Boulanger, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Johanna Magdalena Beyer, Louise Talma, Margaret Bonds, Myriam Marbe, Amy Beach and Ruth Zechlin at the Sharp Theatre at Juiliard, free , tix req 

1/30, 7:30 PM sprawling psychedelic funk jamband Burnt Sugar reinvent songs from Porgy & Bess at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

 1/30, 8 PM pianist Simone Dinnerstein leads a quartet playing Bach keyboard sonatas at the Miller Theatre, $30

1/30-2/1, 8/10:30 PM sardonic, cinematic Russian jazz with saxophonist Igor Butman & the Moscow Jazz Orchestra at the Blue Note, $25 standing room avail

1/30, 10 PM zabumba player Mike LaValle’s original forro band with Vitor Gonçalves on accordion at Barbes

1/30-31, 10 PM trip-metal doomscapers Wolf Eyes at Union Pool, $15

1/31, 9ish pensive, atmospheric harpist/singer Rebecca El Saleh at the Owl

 1/31, 7 PM hard-hitting latin jazz pianist Donald Vega leads his trio at Birdland, $20 at the bar

 1/31, 7 PM the Neel Murgai Ensemble play the album release show for his new Indian string band record with amazing violin duo Arun Ramamurthy and Trina Basu at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

1/31-2/1, 7:30/9;30 PM, repeating 2/1 at 10:30 PM terrifying tenors Marcus Strickland, JD Allen, Stacy Dillard’s Ghidorah quintet at the jazz Gallery, $30

 1/31, 7:30 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by female composers Betsy Jolas, Grażyna Bacewicz, Ethel Smyth, Thea Musgrave, ​Sofia Gubaidulina with Raphael Vogl, organ at Alice Tully Hal, free , tix req at the box ofc

1/31, 7:30/9:30 PM Marcus Strickland, JD Allen and Stacy Dillard lead a ferocious tenor sax frontline with rhythm section at the Jazz Gallery, $30

1/31, 8 PM perennially sharp, hilarious avant garde icon Laurie Anderson at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery no joke, get there early, $20

1/31, 9ish pensive, atmospheric harpist/singer Rebecca El Saleh at the Owl

1/31, 10 PM Cumbiagra – who’ve been going in a much more psychedelic, electric cumbia direction lately at Barbes

Complete lisings for February are here, not on this page

2/1, 2:30 PM the NY Classical Players perform the Debussy String Quartet, Dvorak’s American String Quartet and the Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello at the NYPL for the Performing Arts out back of Lincoln Center free

2/6, 7:30 PM the Telegraph Quartet play a program tba at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/6, 10ish explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Niagara, Ave A/7th St

 2/13 ,7:30 PM hotshot, purist bassist Endea Owens leads her band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/17, 7:30 PM vocal and piano group Mirror Visions Ensemble “explores The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing: letters of love and vengeance, reports from the North Pole, missives asking for money or forgiveness, including correspondence of Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, and Sullivan Ballou. Tom Cipullo provides indispensable instruction with a newly commissioned Guide to Letter Writing, along with works by Gwyneth Walker, Cole Porter, Wolfgang Erich Korngold, Dominick Argento, Richard Pearson Thomas and Christopher Berg” at the Sheen Center, $25/$15 for students

2/20, 7:30 PM high-voltage oldschool salsa dura with longtime Tito Puente sideman John “Dandy” Rodriguez’s “Dream Team” at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

2/25, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, violinist Austin Wulliman & pianist Conrad Tao at the Miller Theatre, free

2/27, 7:30 PM intense, atmospheric chanteuse Imani Uzuri and ensemble “share an intimate chamber concert of compositions from her various works for voice, strings, flute and piano” at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

3/31, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, the new generation’s most eclectic jazz harpist, Brandee Younger & bassist Dezron Douglas at the Miller Theatre, free

4/14 drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, indie classical supergroup the Hands Free – James Moore, guitar & banjo; Caroline Shaw, violin Eleonore Oppenheim, bass; Nathan Koci, accordionat the Miller Theatre, free

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for November and December 2019

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, you might want to bookmark this page and check back regularly.

If you’re leaving your hood, don’t get stuck waiting for a train that never comes, make sure you check the MTA delays and out-of-service page for service cancellations and malfunctions, considering how unreliable the subway is at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you discovered here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar:

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! sug don, email for details/address

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of tropical bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.. Brain Cloud are also playing their 10th anniversary show on Nov 22 at 9 PM at the Jalopy for $20

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $35 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays in November, 9 PM eclectic, cinematic, funky jazz pianist Henry Hey leads a series of ensembles at the small room at the Rockwood

Mondays starting at 9:30 PM Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play two sets at Union Pool. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically woke, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the usual lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests. Sizzling guitarist Binky Griptite – Sharon Jones’ lead player – is also often there.

Mondays at 10 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

Tuesdays at 9 PM, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (check the club calendar), $10 cover.

Wednesdays at 9ish the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Most Thursdays at 8:30, the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays at 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Saturdays in November at 4 PM free concerts at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Sundays in November, 5 PM hypnotic, whirlwind oudist and ngoni player Brandon Terzic  leads a series of Middle Eastern and West African ensembles at Barbes

Most Sundays at 5:15 PM starting in late September, a free recital on the amazing, powerful, dynamic new organ at St. Thomas Church at 5th Ave and 53rd St. featuring some of the world’s greatest organists. The space is magnificent and the music usually is too. Right now the church fathers are programming pretty much everybody who used to work here and play the mighty old Aeolian-Skinner organ that finally had to be replaced. Check the concert calendar for details.

Sundays at 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of groups at the Bar Next Door

Sundays at 8:30/11 PM the epic, intense, politically fearless Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland, $30 bar seating avail

Sundays at 9:30 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel leads his band at Barbes – check the club calendar just to make sure.

11/1, 7 PM pianist Domenika Robe & violinist Simon Popovski play works by Franck, Kreisler, Ravel and Manuel Ponce at Gallery MC

11/1, 7 PM pianist Daniel Tendler and a chamber ensemble plays works by American composers Benjamin Lees, Margaret Mills, Charles Ives, Meredith Monk, Cheri Lee and others at Third St Music School Setttlement, free

11/1, 7:30/9:30 PM Erica Seguine conducts saxophonist Remy LeBoeuf’s big band Asssembly of Shadows playing the album release show for their new concept album – sort of the jazz equivalent of Stephen king’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon – at the Jazz Galley, $20

11/1, 9 PM hauntingly noisy/ambient cellist Leila Bordreuil with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo debuting an improvised duet, then joined by sound artist Stephan Moore at Issue Project Room, $15/$12 stud/srs

11/1, 8 PM the Sarah Weaver Ensemble with a phenomenal lineup including jane Ira Bloom on soprano sax, Min Xiao-Fen on pipa and Ned Rothenberg on reeds play the album releasr show for their lavlishly improvisational new one at the DiMenna Center,$20,$15 stud

11/1, busker legends the Xylopholks in their furry suits followed by the irrepressible, erudite, deviously funny Wade Ripka’s horn band Quatre Vingt Neuf (French for 89, a revolutionary date in case you missed it) playing Little Rascals theme music at Barbes

11/1-2, 8 PM avant violin star Pauline Kim Harris of String Noise at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

11/1, 9 PM dark lyrical soul jamband the Woes at Sunny’s

11/1, 10 PM Hollywood’s Dan Finnerty leads his savagely hilarious top 40 parody group the Dan Band at Joe’s Pub,, $25

11/1. 10:30 PM tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson leads a nonet at the Fat Cat

11/1-2, 10:30PM hard-hitting postbop tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen leads his quartet at Smalls

11/2, 4 PM cinematic, psychedelic quirk-pop keyboardist Michael Hearst presents “Curious, Unusual and Extraordinary” songs from his many bands followed at 8  by pyrotechnic singer Kamala Sankaram’s slinky, surfy, cinematic cumbia/Bollywood band Bombay Rickey and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

11/2, 4 PM pianist Per Tengstrand plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations at Scandinavia house, $25

11/2, 7 PM the Adelphi Orchestra play works by Borodin, Prokofiev and Dvorak at Good Faith-Sheperd Church,152 West 66th St, $30

11/2, 7:30 PM Elliott Smith-esque chamber-pop band the Morning Sea play the album release show for their new one at the basement room at the Rockwood, $12. At 9 PM ubiquitous, moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly is at the small room and edgy, uneasy female-fronted retro new wavers the New Tarot play next door at the big room an hour later for $10. If you can’t get enough of the Rockwood,  haunting flamenco/Sicilian folk chanteuse Julia Patinella. is at the basement room at 10 for separate adm $tba

11/2, 7:30 PM latin soul guitarslingerDamian Quinones and his electric power trio at Silvana followed eventually at 10 by Argentinian dub reggae band Sessiones. 11/13 at 9 PM Quinones is at Bar Chord

11/2, 7:30 PM carnatic singer Namami Karmakar and ensemble at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

11/2, 8 PM trippy, dubby roots reggae and ska sounds with Avo & Skalopy at the Jalopy Tavern

11/2, 8:30 PM allstar violinis Jenny Scheinman and drummer Allison Miller’s Parlour Game trio with formidable pianist Carmen Staaf at Birdland, $30 seats avail

11/2, 9 PM Greg Lewis’ brilliant, fearlessly political Organ Monk Trio – who do a lot more than just B3 reinventions of Thelonoius Monk – at Bar Lunatico. He’s also there for brunch at 1 PM on 11/10 and 11/24

11/2, 9 PM pastoral guitarist duo Charlie Rauh & Cameron Mizell at Bar Thalia adjacent to Symphony Spae

11/2, 9:30 PM comedic, legenday SoCal first-wave punks the Dickies  at Coney Island Baby, $20. Smallest venue they’ve ever played in NYC, maybe ever, anywhere

11/2, 10 PM ten-piece country/carnivalesque/acoustic rock powerhouse M Shanghai String Band at the Jalopy, $!0

11/2, midnight ferocious mariachi violinist Mireya Ramos leads her band playing a Day of the Dead celebration at Joe’s Pub, $20 av tix rec

11/3, 1 PM low-key deep-Brooklyn sounds with Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens playing a gospel brunch show at Bar Lunatico. They’re also here on 11/17

11/3, 3 PM the NJ Symphony Orchestra play the Grieg Piano Concerto wit pianist Juho Pohjonen plus Brahms Symphony No 2 at NJPAC in Newark, $20 tix avail

11/3, 3 PM haunting, politically fearless, soaring Great Plains Gothic/psychedelic songwriter Rose Thomas Bannister at Bill’s Studio, 100 Observer Hwy in Hoboken, free

11/3, 4 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel & the Two Cent Band followed eventually at 9 PM b y intense noir Americana/honkytonk bandleader Karen Jonas at Skinny Dennis /

11/3, 4 PM a rare performance of subversive mid-20th century Zimbabwean chimurenga protest songs with Tanyaradzwa A. Tawengwa and ensemble, plus readings from Zimbabwean novels at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

11/3, 5 PM intense, pyrotechnic oudist and ngoni virtuoso Brandon Terzic plays Middle Eastern and west African sounds followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

11/3, 5 PM, repeating 11/6 at 7 irrepressible classical pianist and impresario Yelena Grinberg and Momenta Quartet violinist Emilie-Anne Gendron celebrate Clara Schumann and her contemporaries with a program including works by Cecile Chaminade, Lili Boulanger, Fanny Mendelssohn, Pauline Vardot, Amy Beach and Dame Ethel Smith at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

11/3, 6 PM energetic delta blues/Romany swing guitaris Felix Slim followed by darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini at LIC Bar

11/3, 7 PM Middle Eastern-inflected guitar improviser Ayman Fanous plays two sets: with Jason Hwang on violin and Ken Filiano on bass, the second at 8:30 with Ned Rothenberg on reeds at Scholes St. Studio

11/3, 7 PM dynamic, sizzling new jazz quartet Landline (Chet Doxas, Jacob Sacks, Vinnie Sperrazza and Zack Lober) play the release show for their debut album at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music $20

11/3, 7:30 PM  sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece and group at Smalls. 11/5 at 9 they’re at the Fat Cat

11/3. 8 PM haunting, multisylistic psychedelic soul/Americana bandleader Jenifer Jackson at the Owl. 11/4 same time she’s at the small room at the Rockwood

11/3, 8 PM lush, snidely lyrical parlor pop/new wave band Office Culture at Union Pool $12

11/3, 8 PM perennially tuneful, pensively lyrical Americana janglerocker Mike Ferrio of Tandy and Good Luck Mountain at 11th St. Bar.

11/3, 9 PM cleverly lyrical, edgily funny, soaring-voiced powerpop/acoustic rock singer Tamara Hey  at the small room at the Rockwood

11/4, 7 PM Greg Connors-  sharply lyrical janglerocker and first-class lead guitarist – at LIC Bar

11/4, 7 PM the Mercantillers sing sea chanteys at Cowgirl Seahorse – an apt choice at the South St. Seaport

11/4,, 7:30 PM riveting, charismatic, intuitive pianist Karine Poghosyan plays works by Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, $20 tix avail. She’s a force of nature, larger than life, the real deal.

11/4, 8 PM  Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems with special pyrotechnic guests singer Jenny Luna and reedman George Stathos at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Washington St at Fulton, C to Clinton-Washington. 11/6 at 8:30 Dervisi are at Troost

11/4, 8 PM popular classical violinist MIdori plays works by Vivian Fung, Sofia Gubaidulina, Olga Neuwirth and Tamar Diesendruck: at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix rec

11/4, 9 PM edgy Russian minor-key stadium rock with Swanky Tiger at the Mercury, $10

11/4, 9:30ish Gato Loco bass saxophone monster Stefan Zeniuk’s new slightly less crazy band Green Mambo – a sly Perez Prado tribute – at Barbes

11/4, 9:30 PM new classical works for saxophones from the Mana Sax Quartet at Pete’s

11/5, 6 PM Carrie Bean Stute, cello and Domenic Salerni, violin play Bach cello suites plus works by Theofanidis and Schulhoff’s brilliant/obscure Duo for violin and cello at Elebash Hall , 365 5th Ave, free

11/5, 7 PM new string quartet Invoke play originals and new music by American composers including Takuma Itoh, Paul Wiancko, and Jessie Montgomery at Joe’s Pub, $20 adv tix rec

11/5, 8 PM explosive, theatrical, phantasmagorical indie/metal band A Deer A Horse plus the Art Gray Noizz Quartet feat Lydia Lunch plus members of Live Skull and Twin Guns at Brooklyn Bazaar, $12

11/5, 8 PM”sound artists Tania Caroline Chen and Ikue Mori “present an astro-electronic acoustic dream dialogue with special guest trombonst Jim Staley.” at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

11/5-8, 8:30 PM wildly virtuosic jazz improv trumpeter Peter Evans leads a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: opening night with Joel Ross (vibraphone) Nick Jozwiak (bass) Savannah Harris (drums)

11/5-10, 8:30/10:30 PM lyrical jazz piano icon Fred Hersch leads a different trio (for him) with Drew Gress and Joey Baron at the Vanguard

11/5, 9:30 PM charismatic, sultry, torchy Americana songwriter/chanteuse Julia Haltigan and her fiery band at 11th St. Bar

11/6, 7 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10

11/6, 8 PM epic jazz guitarist Joel Harrison joins forces with Talujon Percussion Quartet for rapturous Indian sounds at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

11/6, 9 PM psychedelic soul band Frankie Sunswept and the Sunwrays at the Jalopy Tavern

11/6, 10:30 PM elegantly serpentine postbop jazz protest songs with drummer Rob Garcia‘s quintet with Leo Genovese on piano and Christopher McBride on sax at Smalls

11/6, 9 PM oldschool-style high plains C&W singer Hope Debates & North 40 at Bar Chord. They’re also at 55 Bar on 11/23 at 7

11/6 10 PM Mingus Big Band drummer Clarence Penn leads a quintet with Donny McCaslin on tenor, sweet, at 55 Bar

11/7 7 PM actress Cécile Nordegg & Band “combine Edith Piaf and Frank Zappa in celebration of French jazz with a rock’n roll-twist” hmmm at the Austrian Cultural Center, free, rsvp req

11/7, 7 PM the High Low Duo – guitarists Cameron Greider and Jack Petruzzelli play “original surf and western swing instrumentals, but also venture into classical music. Tonight they team up with violinist Joel Lambdin for a set of haunting French music—Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens, Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite,” followed at 10 by slinky, hypnotic percussive Moroccan trance band Innov Gnawa at Barbes

11/7, 7:30 PM All-female Korean band The Tune combines shamanistic traditional music with art-rock at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/7, 7:30 PM string quartet Decoda play works by Mozart, Johann Christian Bach, Thomas Ades and Webern’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $32

11/7, 7:30 PM sizzling all-instrumental soul with the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio at Symphony space, $20 for 30 and  under, $30 otherwise\

11/7, 7:30 PM brilliant dark postbop piano jazz with the Arco Sandoval Asylum septet at Smalls

11/7, 8 PM pianist Ramin Amir Arjomand plays works by Bach, Giacinto Scelsi and an improvisation at the Italian Academy at Columbia, 1161 Amsterdam Ave just south of 118th, free

11/7, 8 PM oldschool latin soul and upbeat Americana with Nikki and the Human Element at Otto’s

11/7, 8 PM long-running 90s alt-country favorites Rusty Truck at Hill Country, free

11/7, 8:30 ish psychedelic supergroup the Elgin Marbles feat. members of Love Camp 7, Dervisi and Peter Stampfel’s jug band at Troost

11/7, 8:30 PM eclectic Italian folk group Ensemble Lucidarium with recorder player Avery Gosfield at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

11/7, 9 PM ferociously catchy. fearlessly populist ska-punk/latin rock band Outernational at Bar Chord

11/7, 10 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin at the Fat Cat. He’s also here at here on 11/12 and 11/19 at 7

11/7, 11:30 PM vicious noiserock jamband the the Skull Practitioners– led by Steve Wynn sparring partner/genius guitarist Jason Victor at the Gutter, $7

11/8, 5:30 PM brooding cello slowcore songs with Meaner Pencil , skronky jazz guitarist Katy the Kyng, and  irrepressible multi-instrumentalist Joanna Sternberg wearing her front-porch folk guitarist hat at the American Folk Art Museum

11/8, 7 PM unusually adventurous indie classical ensembles Hotel Elefant playt play a Kamala Sankaram portrait concert, plus Sankaram’s slinky, surfy, cinematic cumbia/Bollywood band Bombay Rickey at Shapeshifter Lab, sug don

11/8, 7 PM psychedelic ambient Hungarian postfolk band Bajdázó make their US debut at Hungarian House, 213 E 82nd St, free

11/8, 7:30 PM hilarious, ageless hair metal parody band Satanicide at the Mercury, $10

11/8-9, 7:30 PM explosive vibraphonist Mark Sherman leads his quartet at Smalls

11/8, 7:30 PM Mexican folk-punk band Jenni & the Mexicats at the Posson Rouge, $15 adv tix red

11/8, 7 PM cellist Emily Brausa leads an emsemble playing works tba at Third St. Music School Settlement, free

11/8, 9 PM in reverse order at Footlight Bar: the irrepressible Ellia Bisker’s explosive Balkan/New Orleans flavored Funkrust Brass Band playing the album release show for their new one, psychedelic funksters the MK Groove Orchestra, and the Plaster Cramp – a darkly lyrical mashup of post-Velvets jangle and Talking Heads- $10

11/8 8 PM less of a bizarre twinbill than you might think: the Toomai String Quintet play works by Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, and Hermeto Pascoal, plus new string renditions of piano works by Heitor Villa Lobos. Followed at 10 by  Los Cumpleanos – with Nestor Gomez – vox/percussion; Lautaro Burgos – drums; Eric Lane – keyboards; Alex Asher – trombone and others playing trippy, dubwise tropical psychedelia at Barbes

11/8. 8:30 PM trumpeter Aaron Shragge leads a sextet playing brass versions of Tom Waits songs at Bar Lunatico

11/8, 10 PM hard-hitting bassist Dawn Drake & Zapote‘play  the album release show for her wildly psychedelic Afrobeat-flavored new one at Club Bonafide $15

11/8, 10 PM slashing lo-fi guttar blues songwriter/guitarist Breanna Barbara at the sultan Room, $10

11/8, 10:30 PM darkly cinematic, ornate surf instrumentalists the TarantinosNYC. at the Gutter, $7

11/9, 5 PM Persian sufi music with percussionist/vocalist Kamyar Arsani at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $20

11/9, 6 PM the all-female Quartetto Tomassini, play string arrangements of Astor Piazzolla classics at Club Bonafide, $15

11/9, starting at 6 PM “a Celebration of the Moldvai Csángó ethnic group: dance, music, songs, gastronomy, and the most archaic Hungarian dialect (Csángó dialect )” at Hungarian House, 213 E 82nd St, free

11/9, 6 PM  latin drum maven and West Side Story soundtrack reinventor Bobby Sanabria and band at Bethany Baptist Church,  275 W Market St, Newark, free

11/9, 7 PM brilliantly lyrical janglerock songwriter Florence Dore – who had a great run in NYC in the late 90s and early zeros before she became a fulltime unviversity professor and Faulkner specialist –  at Pete’s

11/9, 8 PM the world’s darkest, slinkiest, most blackly funny crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy play the album release show for their danceably creepy new one Dear Trouble at the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St. in Gowanus with special guests Steven Bernstein on trumpet, Slavic Soul Party’s Peter Hess on saxes and Miramar’s Farfisa sorceress Marlysse Rose Simmons, $20. Be aware that the 11/8 show is sold out

11/9, 8 PM atmospheric, psychedelic violinist/singer Concetta Abbate with the even more ambient Kris Wettstein at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

11/9 8 PM Snehesh Nag – sitar with Naren Budhakar – tabla at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

11/9, 8 PM NY Polyphony sing works by England’s first great composer, John Dunstable and other early Albionic composers at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 W 46th St,  $30 tix avail

11/9, 8 PM wildly diverse pastoral jazz/Americana violinist Skye Steele‘s Glorious Sunshine Band followed at 10 by psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Gallo Bueno at Barbes

11/9 8 PM famous Indian carnatic violinist L Shankar at Roulette, $30

11/9 ,9 PM cellist/violinist Shana Tucker at the Apollo Music Cafe just east of the Apollo, upstairs, $22 tix avail at the Apollo box ofc (don’t buy thru ticketbastard because they datamine you online and rip you off especially if you;ve bought from them before)

11/9, 9:30 PM  catchy, slinky psychedelic funk/punk band Eliza & the Organix followed eventually at 11:30 by the similar but more sardonic and punky Hard Nips at the Gutter, $7

11/9, midnight brooding cello slowcore songs with Meaner Pencil aka Lenna M. Pierce at Muchmore’s

11/10, 11 AM the Neave Trio play material from their new album of works by 19th century women composers at Subcultrue. $20

11/10, 11 AM pianist Kit Armstrong plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center, $25, breakfast snacks/coffee after included

11/10,1 PM the perennially pioneering  Momenta Quartet play music by Mozart, Ligeti and Christopher Stark at the Andrew Freedman Home, 1125 Grand Concourse, between McClellan and E166th St in the Bronx,, 4/B/Dto 167th St

11/10,, 3 PM Monica Davis, viola; Benjamin Larsen, cello; David Oei, piano play George Antheil: Sonatina for Violin and Cello; Herbert Howells: Piano Quartet in a minor, op 21; Beethoven: Serenade, opus 8  at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, sugg don

11/10, 4 PM An Die Musik play chamber works works by Mozart, Beethoven, Handel/Halvorsen and Schubert for oboe and strings at Merkin Concet rt Hall, $16

11/10. 4 PM pianist Eleonor Bindman plays Suites by J. S. Bach and Isaac Albeniz. at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $20/$10 stud srs

11/10, 4:30 PM Sounds of America play works by Carlos Gardel, Astor Piazzolla, Luis Laguna, Henry Martínez, and Rafael Hernández with violinist Eddy Marcano and guitarist/cuatro player Jorge Polanco at Greenwich House Music School, 415

11/10. 5 PM hypnotic, whirlwind oudist and ngoni player Brandon Terzic followed at 7 by tuneful avant gatde guitarist Gyan Riley and then at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

11/10, 5 PM trumpeter Matt Lavelle’s improvisational outfit 7 Houses followed at 8 PM ($15 separate adm) by new string music by Georgia Rae with Rose Kow Xiu Yi and Karl Henry at Arete Gallery

11/10, 5 PM Ensemble Connect play works by Poulenc, Mozart, & Beach at Out Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Avenue (one block west of Broadway at 189th Street), free

11/11, 6 PM the Greenpoint Songwriters Exchange – a diverse bunch playing everything from folk noir to Costelloesque, literatry rock to Indian ragas and oldschool soul  –  followed at 10:30 by pastoral guitarist duo Charlie Rauh & Cameron Mizell at Pete’s

11/11, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads his group from behind the Rhodes at 55 Bar

11/11. 7 PM classy, cinematic, purist NZ jazz pianist Alan Broadbent  leads a trio at Mezzrows

11/11, 7 PM Toot Sweet play twisted theatrical accordion glam rock at the small room at the Rockwood.

11/11, 7:30 PM Terra Nostra Ensemble play their Suite Terra Nostra – original arrangements of traditional songs from Spain and different countries in Latin America, as well as the Piano Quintet Op. 49 by Enrique Granados at Greenwich House Music School, $15

11/11, 9:30 PM “the Slippery Fish “pay tribute to the Mexican pedal steel master Tõno Quirazco, who in the 1960’s combined the new sound of ska music out of Jamaica with country twang to invent a twist on the Caribbean sound. With Ari Folman-Cohen – bass and John Echelay – pedal steel,” at Barbes

11/11, midnight boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at the Ear Inn

11/12, 6:30 PM Catalan composer Josep Prohens and pianist Andreu Riera team up for a retrospective celebration of Prohens’ piano works. at Elebash Hall, 365 5th Ave, free

11/12, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian at 55 Bar

11/12, 7 PM one of the year’s most haunting, relevant classical bills: the Daedalus Quartet play music by Viktor Ullman, Gabriel Bolaños and Mieczyslaw Weinberg at the Baruch Colllege Auditorium, pricy, $36/$16 stud but could be worth it

11/12, 7 PM pianist Giorgi Gigashvili plays works by Chopin, Ginastera, Prokofiev and others at the Americas Society, free, rsvp sug 

11/12, 7:30/9:30 PM the haunting, smokily atmospheric Michael Leonhart Orchestra at the Jazz Standard, $30

11/12, 7:30 PM whirlwind accordionist Matti Pulkki plays Finnish music for solo accordion by Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cecilia Damström and Magnus Lindberg with a premiere by Reiko Füting.at Scandinavia house, $15

11/12, 7;30 PM violinist Grace Park and ensemble play a program tba at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $20

11/12, 7 PM the Bushwick Book Club – a lit-rock collective including both some of NY’s smartest songwriting talent along with some dorky open mic lifers – followed at 9:30 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs and Ellington reinventors Slavic Soul Party

11/12, 7 PM the Vera Quartet and pianist Meng-Chieh Liu play a program tba at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

11/12, 7:30 PM Rogers & Butler – powerpop aces Ed Rogers and Steven Butler’s new duo project – and  perennially sharp;, wickedly tuneful, jangly Americana band Mary Lee’s Corvette at City Vineyard, $18

11/12, 8 PM rising star Middle Eastern singer Jennifer Grout with an allstar cast: Sami Abu Shumays – violin John Murchison – qanun Brian Prunka – oud Johnny Farraj – Riq Gilbert Mansour – darbuka play classic Egytian vocal tunes by including Oum Kalthoum, Asmahan, Souad Mohammed, and others at Siterss Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St. at Washington, C to Clinton/Washington

11/12-16, 8:30 PM lyrical latin jazz pianist Aruan Ortiz leads a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick:: 11/14 his Pygmalion Project with Melanie Dyer (viola) Michaël Attias (sax) Arooj Aftab (voice)

11/12, 9:30 PM satirical German new wave/funk-punk band Die Goldenen Zitronen at the Mercury, $15 adv tix rec

11/13, 7 PM one of this era’s most vividly bustling, entertaining big bands, Miho Hazama & M-Unit at at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rc

11/13, 8ish brand new Brookliyn honkytonk band Lissy & The Jacks at the Jalopy Tavern

11/I3, 8 PM ish Iron Kingdom – British Columbia’s female-fronted answer to Iron Maiden – at Blackthorn 51, $12

11/13, 8 PM intuitive, lyrical pianist  Melody Fader with Sophie Ackerman and cellist Nicolas Delataille play works by Mendelssohn, Debussy, Ravel and Dalit Warshaw at Greenwich House Music School, $20/$15 stud/sra

11/13, 8 PM the Nouveau Classical Project play works by Paul Pinto, Bethany Younge and Mieko Shiomi at Arete Gallery, $15

11/13. 9 PM unpredictably fun, funny  art-rock/psychedelic soul band the Academy Blues Project at LIC Bar

\11/13, 9 PM dark, new wave-ish lit-rock bandleader Dalton Deschain  at Arlene’s, $10

11/13, 10 PM wildfire neo-klezmer violinist/composer Ben Sutin leads his quartet at Pete’s

11/13, 10 PM psychedelic funk/Afrobeat jammers the People’s Champs at the Sultan Room, $12

11/14, 7 PM the Orchestra Now play the first NYC performances in over 50 years of rarely-heard pieces by Arthur Honegger and Dimitri Mitropoulos, along with the Divertimentosuite from Stravinsky’s ballet score The Fairy’s Kiss at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $25

11/14. 7 PM  soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis at 55 Bar at 55 Bar

11/14-15, 7:30/9:30 PM reliably tuneful postbop piano vet George Cabless leads a trio at Mezzrow

11/14, 7:30 PM, repeating 11/15-16 at 8 the NY Philharmonic play Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet Overture, $34. Be aware that there’s also a modern work by a precious wannabe goth-rock boy on the bill which you will want to avoid

11/14, 730 PM clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs and Ellington reinventors Slavic Soul Party at Symphony Space, $20 for under 30, $30 otherwise

11/14, 7:30 PM the Attacca Quartet with Caroline Shaw (presumably on vocals and violin) at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/14, 7:30/9:30 PM drummer Colin Hinton leads a quintet with Anna Webber on tenor sax at the Jazz Gallery $15

11/14, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies at Barbes

11/14, 8 PM perennially interesting piano/percussion ensemble Yarn/Wire  lead an ensemble playing an all Annea Lockwood program at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

11/14,8:30 PM ferocious klezmer violinst Jake Shulman-Ment’s Fidl Kapelye town &

11/14, 9 PM  quirky, jangly psych-pop band Rancho Cowabunga  at Pete’s

11/14, 9 PM fiery 19th century style oldtimey string band the Four O’Clock Flowers  at Sunny’s

11/14, 9 PM newschool honkytonk band Sarah Shook & the Disarmers at the Knitting Factory, $15

11/15, 6:30 PM haunting, fearsomely powerful soul belter and noir Americana songstress Karen Dahlstrom at the American Folk Art Museum

11/15, 7 PM magical Balkan accordionist Merima Ključo and contralto vocalist Jelena Milusic at Elebash Hall, $25

11/15, 7 PM violinist Chiu-Chen Liu plays a program tba at Third St. Music School Settlement, free

11/15, 7:30 PM conguero Edwin Bonilla leads his salsa dura band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/15, 8 PM avant garde trumpeter Nate Wooley leads an ensemble works by Eva-Maria Houben, Katherine Young: and Ryoko Akama at Issue Project Room, $15/$12 stud/srs

11/15-16, 8 PM fearlessly relevant, genuinely riveting, populist tenor sax visionary/improviser Matana Roberts at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

11/15, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by ferocious, creepily enveloping, kinetic psychedelic tropicalia band Yotoco at Barbes

11/15, 8 PM at  Our Savior’s Atonement Lutheran (178 Bennett Ave.), repeating 11/16 at 3 at Fort Washington Collegiate Church (729 W. 181st St.) the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra play Valerie Coleman: Afro-Cuban Concerto; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581; Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 9, $7

11/15, 8:30 PM brilliant retro blues/New Orleans soul/Americana songwriter Pokey LaFarge solo at the Bell House, $20 gen adm

11/15, 10ish popular fuzztone psychedelic rock road warriors the Mystery Lights at the Market Hotel, $15

11/15, 11:30 PM ferociously dynamic, tuneful, female-fronted power trio Castle Black at the Gutter

11/16, 8 PM West Virginia musicologists/musicians Carrie & Michael Kline and oldtime front porch folk band Triboro at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

11/16, 8 PM  poignant, eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo’s tango quartet followed at 10 by  feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes, who are also here on 11/25 at around the same time. Giraudo is also at Bar Lunatico on 11/20 at 8:30

11/16 ,8 PM bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck joined by an ensemble playing new works by iconoclast composers Eva-Maria Houben, Sarah Hennies, Katherine Young, and Ryoko Akama at Issue Project Room, $15/$12 stud/srs

11/16, 8 PM  the new generation’s most eclectic jazz harpist, Brandee Younger leads a quintet with Chelsea Baratz on sax at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

11/17, 11 AM brass chamber ensemble the Westerlies at Subculture. $20

11/17. noon jazz violinist Majid Khaliq leads a quartet plus choir in a tribute to Grover Washington Jr.’s violinist John Blake Jr. at Joe’s Pub, $15

11/17, 4 PM the Catalyst Quartet play music of African-American composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

11/17, 5 PM hypnotic, whirlwind oudist and ngoni player Brandon Terzic  followed at 7 by brilliant steel guitarist Mike Neer’s Steelonious – who do Monk covers in the same vein as Buddy Emmons –  followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

11/17, 5 PM, releating 11/20 at 7 irrepressible classical pianist and impresario Yelena Grinberg  and pianist Elena Kuschnerova celebrate Clara Schumann and her contemporaries plus works by Schubert, Brahms and Robert Schumann at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

11/17, 6 PM first-class indie classical pianist Zosha DiCastri plays the album release show for her new one at the Tenri Institute, $15/$10 stud/rs lncludes copy of the album

11/17, 7 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez and guitar wizard Erik Della Penna of Kill Henry Sugar play NY-centric songs at Pangea, $25

11/17, 7:30 PM sharpy lyrical pianist Kelly Green leads a trio at Mezzrow

11/17, 8 PM  cinematic guitarist Pat Irwin and boisterous swing/ska trombonist J. Walter Hawkes at Teri10 studios, 10-10 47th Road, Long Island City, sug don, 7 to Vernon Blvd.

11/17, 8 PM fearlessly relevant, genuinely riveting, populist tenor sax visionary/improviser Matana Roberts airs out “the fourth chapter of her innovative and profoundly iconoclastic COIN COIN project” at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

11/18, 7:30 PM new wave era nostalgia: Runaways frontwoman and solo artist Cherie Currie and Fanny drummer and singer Brie Darling at the Poisson Rouge, $20 ad tix rec. Where’s Marie Currie when we need her?

11/18, 9 PM surreal, amusingly bombastic heavy psych band Howling Giant at the Kinitting Factory, $10; avoid the lame 8 PM and 10 PM acts

11/18, 9:30ish ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

11/18, 9:30 PM legendary dual-reedman George Braith – who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – leads his quartet at the Fat Cat

11/19, 7 PM ish  allstar Americana jammers the Honky-Tonk Heroes,, featuring Springsteen pianist Charlie Giordano, Gene Yellin, Trip Henderson, Tim Kiah and some surprise guests  at the Jalopy Tavern

11/19, 7 PM Brooklyn Brassens: “Georges Brassens, anarchist, provocateur and French poet, gets his repertoire re-arranged for a Nigerian-influenced quartet. With Francis Jacob – guitar, Vocals; Bennett Paster – keyboard; Derek Nievergelt – bass and AJ Olusegun – conga followed at 9:30 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs and Ellington reinventors Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

11/19, 7:30 PM the best singing pianist (and the best piano-playing singer) in jazz, Champian Fulton in a rare duo wih bassist Hide Tanaka at Mezzrow

11/19, 7:30 PM the Irish Chamber Orchestra play works by Mozart, Mendelsssohn and Weber at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Halll, $30

11/19, 7:30 PM a wildly good acoustic blues twinbill:  Jontavious Willis & guitar/banjo/piano genius Jerron Blind Boy Paxton at City Vineyard, $20

11/19-24, 7:30/9:30 PM  guitar icon Bill Frisell at the Jazz Standard, $35. 11/19 with his long-running trio with Tony Scherr and Kenny Wollesen; 11/21-22 solo; 11/23-24 leading a chamber jazz quartet with Hank Roberts on cello

11/19, 8 PM crystalline-voiced noir Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss with her excellent band  at 11th St. Bar

11/19 ,8:30 PM quirky, smartly lyrical avant cello-rock band the Icebergs at Pete’s

11/19, 9 PM all-female pan-latin jazz jamband Cocomama at the Fat Cat

11/19, 9 PM intense, multistylistic blues guitarist/singer Will Scott  at Sunny’s

11/20, 630 PM Chinese pipa virtuoso Zhou Yi at the China Institute, 100 Washington St, $20

11/20, 7 PM the irrepressible, cinematic, comedic Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, $10

11/20, 7:30 PM the Alexander String Quartet play Mozart Quartet, KV 465, “Dissonant”; Shostakovich Quartet No. 12, Op. 133; Mendelssohn Quartet, Op. 13, at the Baruch Colllege Auditorium, pricy, $36/$16 stud but could be worth it. They’re also playing a free show featuring Beethoven: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3; Beethoven: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59. No. 3 the following day, 11/21 at 2:45 PM, free tix req 

11/20, 730 PM the MSM Symphony Orchestra, play works by Strauss and Rodrigo, plus a rare performance of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the MSM Symphonic Chorus, at Neidorff Hall at Manhattan School of Music, 130 Claremont Ave north of 122nd,, free, 1 train to 125th , walk west 1 block and then back

11/20, 8 PM singer Dida Pelled salutes obscure and cult favorite women songwriters including Connie Converse, Elizabeth Cotten, Molly Drake, Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega at Barbes

11/20, 8 PM Nick Podgurski and his ensemble Feast of the Epiphany play keyboard-driven punk art-rock at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

11/20, 8 PM postbop saxophonist Michael Blake and his quartet the Digging at Erv’s, 2122 Beekman Place, Crown Heights, sug don

11/20, 10 PM hauntingly cinematic Lynchian/southwestern gothic instrumentalists Suss play the album release show for their new one at the Sultan Room, $12

11/20, 10 PM smartly tuneful oldschool soul/psych-pop songwriter Mimi Oz  at the small room at the Rockwood

11/20, 10 PM pyrotechnic Greek electric lauto player Lazo at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

11/20, 10:30 PM trippy downtempo keys/trumpet/drums improvisation with Covered in Peanut Butter at the basement room at the Rockwood, free

11/20 atmospheric saxophonist Ben Bryden with his trio at the basement room at the Rockwood, $tba. 11/30 at 7:30 he’s at the Bar Next Door

11/21. 7 PM fhe Geenwich Vilage Chamber Music Society play works by Rachmaninoff & Brahms at te Tenri institute, free

11/21, 730 PM, repeating 11/23 at 8 the NY Philharmonicl with solist Alisa Weilerstein play Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto, Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 and Dvorak’s Symphony No 4, $32 tix avail

11/21, 7:30 PM soca hall of famer Mighty Sparrow in a relatively intimate show, omg, at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/21, 730 PM the MSM Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Ari Pelto, performs Verdi, Sibelius, and Rachmaninoff.at Neidorff Hall at Manhattan School of Music, 130 Claremont Ave north of 122nd, 1 train to 125th , free, walk west 1 block and then back

11/21. 7:30 PM pianist Per Tengstrand and ensemble Opus 21 play a chamber version of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 plus Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G Minor at Scandinavia House, $25

11/21, 8 PM Rena Anakwe “presents the third and final work of her 2019 residency with the premiere of Ogwu (the healing), an immersive purification ritual sculpted through a visual, sound, and scent bath inspired by the element of fire” at Issue Project Room, free

11/21 ,8 PM kinetic improvisational rapture: bassist Luke Stewart with dancer Miriam Parker followed by bracing singer Amirtha Kidambi and sound artist Lea Bertucci at Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, $15

11/21, 8:30 PM Dervisi feat. psychedelic guitarist George Sempepos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems at Troost

11/21. 8:30 PM spirited Yiddish songs wih Susan Leviton and Lauren Brody at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

11/21, 9 PM satirical punk rocker and Freddys’ legend Paranoid Larry in a now-rare live gig on his old/new home turf

11/22, 6;30 ish pensive, smart, jazz-tinged acoustic songwriter May Cheung at the American Folk Art Museum

11/22, 7 PM pianist Mira Gill plays a program tba at Third St. Music School Settlement, free

11/22, 7:30 PM the Mannes Chamber Orchestra play Penderecki’s Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima plus 20th century works by George Rochberg, Henry Cowell and Johanna Beyer’s Music of the Spheres at the first-floor New School auditorium at 63 5th Ave, free

11/22, 7:30 PM flute/violin/cello trio Eight Strings and a Whistle play works by CPE Bach, Siegfried Thiele, 8SW Featured Composers Pamela Sklar and Douglas Anderson, at the Tenri institute, $tba

11/22-23, 7:30 PM the perennially intense, tuneful godfather of edgy, lyrical, anthemic downtown NYC rock, Willie Nile at the Mercury where he made that sizzling live album all those years ago, $25

11/22,  8 PM intense Balkan chanteuse Jenny Luna‘s haunting, traditional Turkish band Dolunay followed at 10 by followed at 10 by the world’s darkest, slinkiest, most blackly funny crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Barbes

11/22, 8 PM, repeating 11/23 at 7:30 New Chamber Ballet celebrate 15 years in business with intuitive, lyrical pianist Melody Fader playing music of Stockhausen, Rhim, Schubert and Dvorak- some with violinist Doori Na. at City Center Studio 5, 130 West 56th street, 5th fl, $33/$20 stud/srs

11/22, 8 PM pianist Matthew McCright performs piano works from a diverse set of living composers: Kirsten Broberg, Kyong Mee Choi, Christopher Coleman, Sean Friar, Dorothy Hindman, Mike McFerron, Ingrid Stölzel, and Robert Voisey. at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $20

11/22. 8 PM the Kyle Simpson Chamber Orchestra and Red Line String Quartet play a live score to Georges Méliès’ most famous French silent films A Trip to The Moon (1902) and The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903). at the DiMenna Center, $10

11/22, 8 PM pianist and composer Gustavo Casenave plays with his eclectic quartet including bassist Pedro Giraudo,  saxophonist Alejandro Aviles and drummer guru Franco Pinna, playing Casenave’s original jazz, tango, and classical works at Flushing Town Hall, $16/$10 srs/under 18 free w/ID

11/22, 8:30 PM eclectic stoner folk with Odetta Hartman followed by enigmatic psychedelic funk guitarist/singer Aubrey Haddard and her band at C’mon Everyody $12

11/22-23, 7:30/9:30 PM vibraphonist Joel Ross’ genuinely Good Vibes band at the Jazz Gallery, $25

11/22. 9 PM oldschool 80s downtown postpunk legends Disturbed Furniture at the Way Station

11/22, 9:30 PM rambunctious newgrass band Goodnight Texas at the Knitting Factory, $10

11/22, midnight  bass sax monster Stefen Zeniuk’s punk mambo crew the NY Fowl Harmonic at  at Branded Saloon

11/22, midnight black metal spoof band Witch Taint at the Mercury, $12

11/23, 4 PM intense, soaring harmonium player/singer Elana Low at Pete’s

11/23, 5 PM cellist Paul Brantley plays works by Anonymous, 14th Century plus his own compositions and pieces by Buxtehude, Tina Davidson, Shemaria, and Joseph Zawinul, Brantley will perform the beloved Suite in D minor for solo cello by J.S. Bach. At Out Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Avenue (one block west of Broadway at 189th Street), sug don

11/23, 7 PM soprano Lucy Dhegrae sings a program in solidarity with women who’ve survived violent sexual assault;, works include a  world premiere of Osnat Netzer’s Philomelos, plus pieces by Jason Eckardt, Bethany Younge, Maria Stankova, Vinko Globokar, and Caleb Burhans at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

11/23. 8 PM gritty Iraqi maqam music icon Hamid Al-Saadi with trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s hypnotic, incisive classical Iraqi music ensemble Safaafir  at P at Roulette, $30

11/23 8 PM explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Kasteli Cafe, 372 8th Ave. (@29th St.). 11/24 at 10 they’re at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass St upstairs in Gowanus

11/23, 8 PM amazingly versatile, genuinely Hendrixian guitar shredder Viva DeConcini plays the album release show for her new one at Branded Saloon

11/23, 8 PM the Attacca Quartet   play the album release for Nathan Schram’s latest electroacoustic release, Oak and the Ghost at 1 Rivington St, 2nd fl, $20/$10 stud/srs

11/23. 8 PM edgy oldschool and newer soul styles with singer Maya Sharpe at the small room at the Rockwood

11/23, 4 PM a rare NYC concert by Japanese koto and shamisen player Yoko Reikano Kimura at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $30

11/23, 7 PM works by Schoenfield, Piazzolla, and Haydn performed by  Yu Jeong Lee on violin, Min Park on flute, Na-Young Baek on cello, and Edwin Sungpil Kim on piano.at Flushing Town Hall $16/$10 srs/free for students 19-under w/ID

11/23, 7 PM new music for string quartet by Pan, Swidler, Selin, Grosshandler and Vigneau-Britt performed by the Xanthoria Quartet at Scholes St Studios

11/23, 8 PM choral folk traditions in concert: Wyndborne and the even more globally-inspired Asaran Earth Trio at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.”

11/23. 8 PM pioneering French musique concrete composer/performers Beatriz Ferreyra & Christine Groult at Issue Project Room, $15/$12 stud/srs

11/23, 8 PM the Manhattan Wind Ensemble play works by Vaughan Williams Viet Cuong, mark camphouse and others at Sypohnny Space, $12 adv tix avail

11/23. 8 PM 80s goth icons Clan of Xymox at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix rec. Watery chorus-box bass! Synthesized strings!

11/23, 9 PM multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter’s noir, cinematic, epic Ghost Train Orchestra at the Jalopy, $12 adv tix avail at the venue

11/23. 9 PM searing, fearlessly political gutter blues songwriter/guitarist Molly Ruth at Bar Chord. If she’s solo, she’s a force of nature; if she’s with the band. be aware that the Bleecker Street hacks in it can’t figure out how to do her stuff smooth and hippie-friendly

11/23, 10 PM awesomely slinky, psychedelic Israeli Ethiopiques groove instrumentalists Anbessa Orchestra at Barbes

11/23, midnight anthemic Iron Maiden-style metal band the Blackfires at the Mercury, $12

11/24, 11 AM pensive, eclectic, tuneful jazz songwriter/chanteuse Becca Stevens at Subculture. $20

11/24, 2 PM fiery ecological activist/bandleader Rev. Billy and his massive original gospel-style choi at Joe’s Pub, $15, Followed eventually at 9:30 by choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s Sadonna project – sad versions of Madonna songs – for $20 separate adm

11/24, starting at 2 PM the annual Mannes Chamber Bash featuring classical ensembles of various sizes playing a program tba in various spaces throughout the building at 55 W 13th St., free

11/24, 3 PM the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine with Olga Kern on piano play Berezovsky: Symphony in C; Tchaikovsky: Polonaise (Eugene Onegin); Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 at NJPAC in Newark, $30 tix avail

11/24, 3 PM  the Greenwich Village Orchestra play Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral and the Dvořák Cello Concerto Prokofiev Selections from The Love for Three Oranges*; Mussorgsky Songs and Dances of Death; Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade at All Saints Church, 230 E 60th St (2/3rd Aves) $25 sug don

11/24, 4 PM genre-busting, pioneering string ensemble the Turtle Island Quartet at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

11/24, 4 PM early music ensemble Alkemie jam out medieval British themes at Arete Gallery, $15. Followed at 8 ($15 separate adm) by Ghost Ensemble playing works by Pauline Oliveros, Ben Richter, Kevin Kay and others

11/24, 5 PM violist Jessica Thompson (Daedalus Quartet) and pianist Andrea Lam (Claremont Trio),team up for works by Bach, Britten, Kurt Rohde, and Schumann at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/sr

11/24, 6 PM guitarslinger Mallory Feuer’s fiery band the Grasping Straws – sort of a mashup of Patti Smith and Hole’s first album – followed by the similarly dark, more eclectic, psychedelic  enigmatic Lorraine Leckie and her killer band at the Mercury, $10

11/24, 7 PM Jimbo Mathus’ Incinerator (ex-Squirrel Nut Zippers guitar monster) at the big room at the Rockwood, $15

11/25, 10 PM tuneful drummer/composer Ben Perowsky, leads his group at 55 Bar

11/26, 7 PM electric oudist Barbouhl with Mohamed Araki: keyboard Dillon Zahner: percussion Ghassan Sawalhi: percussion at Sisters Brooklyn,900 Fulton St at Washington, C to Clinton-Washington, sugg don

11/26, 7 PM  ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s new psychedelic tropicalia project CAMPOS  followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

11/26, 7:30 PM hauntingly psychedelic folk noir/art-rock multi-instrumentalist songwriter  Holly Miranda at City Vineyard, $15

11/26, 7:30/9:30 PM hard-charging postbop tenor saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins leads a quartet at the Jazz Galery, $20

11/26, 7:30 PM salsa jazz grooves with Cuban pianist Dayramir González & Habana enTRANCé at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/26, 6 PM TAK Ensemble play works by Taylor Brook, Erin Gee, Tyshawn Sorey and others at the Miller Theatre, free

11/26, 8 PM accordion genius Shoko Nagai and trumpeter Ron Horton’s improvisational Fido Quartet at Arete Gallery, $15

11/26-30, 8:30/10:30 PM the reliably electrifying Jason Moran & the Bandwagon at the Vanguard, this is gonna sell out, get there early

11/26, 9 PM drummer Kate Gentile‘s Batterie with Jon Irabagon on sax and Matt Mitchell on piano at the Sultan Room, $!2

11/26, 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy and band at Smalls

11/27, 7 PM  perennially entertaning Irish party band Shilelagh Law at Connollly’s, $tba

11/27, 10 PM high-voltage psychedelic cumbia/Afrobeat jamband MAKU Soundsystem play the album release show for their new one at the Sultan Room, $12

11/29, 3 PM Patti Smith lead guitar legend Lenny Kaye leads his powerpop band followed by second-gen garage rock legends the Fleshtones at Rough Trade, free

11/29-30, 7:30/9:30 PM darkly colorful, perennially interesting bassist Linda May Han Oh leads her band at the Jazz Gallery, $25

11/29, 7:30 PM Glass Farm Ensemble plays duos for violin (Pauline Kim Harris) and piano/toy piano (Yvonne Troxler), with music by Louis Andriessen, Willy Burkhard, Stefano Gervasoni, Elizabeth Hoffman, Denis Schuler and Yvonne Troxler at Symphony Space, $20 adv tix rec

11/29-30, 8 PM lyrical, cerebral pianist Matt Mitchell at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery, $20

11/29, 10 PM Terapia & Verbena play oldschool and newschool champeta at Barbes

11/24, 5:30 PM Albanian Romany guitarist Taulant Mehmeti‘s Gypsy Quartet at Birdland, $30

11/30, 2 PM Jaap Van Zweden conducts he NY Philharmonic in the Mozart Wind Serenade and Tschaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, $34 tix avail

11/30, 9 PM Amayo’s Fu-Arkist-Ra mash up Afrobeat and ancient Chinese grooves at Bar Lunatico

12/1, 8:30 PM  cinematic guitarist Pat Irwin and boisterous swing/ska trombonist J. Walter Hawkes at Troost

12/1, 9 PM a rare reunion of gothic Americana legends O’Death followed at 10:30 by politically fearless dirty gospel piano wildman Rev. Vince Anderson with his classic 1999 lineup at Pete’s. No shit. Get there early

12/2, starting at 6ish the annual Winters Eve festival at and around the triangla where Broadway meets Columbus Ave, some surprisingly good acts show up and play in the cold. Klezmer under the xmas tree, maybe?

12/2, 7 PM Colombian-Haitian roots dance band Strings & Skins at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, note early showtime

12/2, 7 PM Jocelyn MacKenzie, the better half of popular late zeros chamber pop band Pearl & the Beard at Pete’s

12/2, 7:30 PM percussionist/composer Qasim Naqvi, violinist Jennifer Koh and singer Davóne Tines perform Naqvi’s compositions plus works by J. S. Bach, Hildegard of Bingen, Isang Yun, and traditional African-American spirituals at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free

12/3 7 PM Venice-themed “madrigals for cello, choir, and city” by Andrea Liberovici performed by Aaron Wolff, cello with the Fractio Modi vocal quartet at the Italian Academy at Columbia, 1161 Amsterdam Ave just south of 118th, free

12/3 7 PM soprano Lucy Dhegrae and the Talea Ensemble play David Adamcyk’s new composition, Father, My Father, a reflection on the #MeToo movement at the Americas Society, free, rsvp sugg

12/3, 9 PM Americana rock songstress and Hadestown creator Aiofe O’Donovan followed at 10:30 by Lake Street Dive’s Bridget Kearney doing her new wave rock project at Pete’s

12/4, 7 PM crystalline-voiced noir Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss with her excellent band at Mirror in the Woods, 575 Union St, Gowanus, R to Union St

12/4, 9 PM edgy, dreampop-tinged Americana rock songwriter Juliana Nash back at her old stomping ground at Pete’s, which she booked brilliantly for years back in the 90s and zeros

12/10, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, badass harp virtuoso Bridget Kibbey plays works by Bach, Gershwin, Albeniz and Tschaikovsky at the Miller Theatre, free

12/12, 7:30 PM Indian and latin-tinged jazz improvisation with the Karuna Trio featuring Hamid Drake, Adam Rudolph, and Alexis Marcelo at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free

12/14, 7:30 PM ruthlessly funny, politically satirical faux-folk duo Friends Who Folk (Rachel Wenitsky and Ned Riseley) at Union Hall, Union St. north of 7th Ave in Park Slope, $10

12/19 730 PM Los Rumberos del Callejón bring their salsa out of the alley at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, get there early

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for October and November 2019

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, you might want to bookmark this page and check back regularly.

If you’re leaving your hood, don’t get stuck waiting for a train that never comes, make sure you check the MTA delays and out-of-service page for service cancellations and malfunctions, considering how unreliable the subway is at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you discovered here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar:

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! sug don, email for details/address

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of tropical bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.. Brain Cloud are also playing their 10th anniversary show on Nov 22 at 9 PM at the Jalopy for $20

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $35 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays at 10 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

Mondays starting at around 10:45 PM Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play two sets at Union Pool. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically woke, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the usual lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests. Sizzling guitarist Binky Griptite – Sharon Jones’ lead player – is also often there.

Tuesdays at 7:30 PM the chamelonic, playful, sometimes irresistibly cartoonish Daniel Bennett Group play jazz outside the box at the third floor bar at the Residence Inn, 1033 6th Ave at 39th St, free

Tuesdays at 9 PM, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (check the club calendar), $10 cover.

Three Wednesdays in October: 10/16, 10/23 and 10/30 stark southwestern gothic jangle and clang with And the Wiremen at Troost

Wednesdays at 9ish the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Most Thursdays at 8:30, the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Thursdays in October, 7 PM fearless, insurgent, amazingly spot-on comedienne/vocal impersonator Tammy Faye Starlite plays Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English at Pangea, $25

Thursdays in October, 8 PM psychedelic latin soul tinged band Garcia Peoples at Nublu 151, $12

Fridays at 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Saturdays in October at 6 PM ferociously funny, literate, historically informed oldtimey songwriter Robin Aigner and bassist Michael Brownell’s Hello Bittersweet at Barbes

Saturdays in October at 4 PM free concerts at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Three Sundays in September: 9/1, 9/15 and 9/29 Greg Lewis’ brilliant, fearlessly political Organ Monk Trio at Bar Lunatico at 1 PM for brunch.

Sundays in November, 5 PM hypnotic, whirlwind oudist and ngoni player Brandon Terzic  leads a series of Middle Eastern and West African ensembles at Barbes

Most Sundays at 5:15 PM starting in late September, a free recital on the amazing, powerful, dynamic new organ at St. Thomas Church at 5th Ave and 53rd St. featuring some of the world’s greatest organists. The space is magnificent and the music usually is too. Right now the church fathers are programming pretty much everybody who used to work here and play the mighty old Aeolian-Skinner organ that finally had to be replaced. Check the concert calendar for details.

Sundays at 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of groups at the Bar Next Door

Sundays at 8:30/11 PM the epic, intense, politically fearless Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland, $30 bar seating avail

Sundays at 9:30 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel leads his band at Barbes – check the club calendar just to make sure.

10/1, 7:30 PM indie classical ensemble  Desdemona and Adam Holmes “team up for an evening of string trio and percussion, featuring video projections, a world premiere, and disturbing questions about capitalism and climate change. The concert will include a new work by Adam Holmes, David Bird’s Thresholds, and Sofia Gubaidulina’s String Trio” at 1 Rivington t., $20/$10 stud

10/1. PM rapturousy subtle tropicalia drummer/bandleader (and former Chicha Libre timbalera) Karina Colis leads one of her groups followed at 9 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

10/1. 8:30 PM psychedelic supergroup the Elgin Marbles feat. members of Love Camp 7, Dervisi and Peter Stampfel’s jug band at Troost

10/1, 8 PM quirky, smartly lyrical avant cello-rock band the Icebergs at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass St. in Gowanus, $tba

10/1-5, 8:30/11PM iconic bassist Ron Carter  leads his big band at Birdland, $30 tix avail. 10/8-12 he leads a trio, 10.15-19 he leads a quartet with Renee Rosnes on piano, then he’s with his Nonet 10/22-26

10/2, 1 PM pianist Kate Liu plays a program tba at the Greene Space, free w/rsvp

10/2,  6:30 PM veteran Japanese free jazz saxophonist Akira Sakata w/ Darin Gray at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown, free

10/2, 7 PM theremin virtuoso Pamelia Stickney followed at 8 by sychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10. She’s also at the Owl on 10/3 at 9 with her Transcendental Dissonance Quartet

10/2, 730/9:30 PM  alto saxophonist Caroline Davis and pianist Rob Clearfield’s Persona quartet at the Jazz Gallery, $15. 10/3 she leads a quintet at 7:30 PM at Smalls

10/2, 8 PM Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems at Troost

10/2. 9 PM terse, brilliant jazz violinist Charlie Burnham & Kings County at Sunny’s

10/2. 9 PM bassist Jeon Lin Yang leads a quartet with Oscar Noriega on clarinet at Bar Lunatico

10/2, 9 PM psychedelic soul band  Frankie Sunswept and the Sunwrays at the Jalopy Tavern

10/2, 10 PM the king of indie shred guitar, Ty Segall at Bowery Ballroom, $30 gen adm. They’re also here on 10/3 at half past midnight and then 10/4 at 10 again

10/2-3 midnight ferocious art-rock jamband Planta at Terraza 7, $10

10/3, 6 PM improvisers in reverse order at Holo, free: Retrouvaile, Robert Edge, Bonnie Kane, Greg Gondek, Calytrix, Sandy Ewen, free

10/3-5, 7 PM ,Monica Bill Barnes & Company‘s hilarious new site-specific dance performance By at the World Financial Center, free.  The challenge is to figure out who the dancers are and who are just randos walking by (it’s harder than you think!). Headphones with a soundtrack of similarly wryly funny, cheesy top 40 hits from across the decades are part of the performance. Not to be missed.

10/3, 7:30 PM wild Palestinian hip-hop/dancehall reggae/habibi pop band 47soul at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/3-6, 730/9:30 PM shapeshifting pianist Sullivan Fortner leads his trio with John Pattituci on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums at the Jazz Standard, $30

10/3. 7:30 PM Quartet 131 play Schubert’s Quartetsatz plus works by Dutilleux, Beethoven and Bloch at mekin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

10/3. 8 PM Ethiopian croone Habte Awalom at Silvana

10/3 8 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez followed by intense Balkan chanteuse Jenny Luna‘s haunting, traditional Turkish band Dolunay at Barbes

10/3, 8 PM a screening of Errol Morris’ The Fog of War with live orchestra playing Philip Glass’ score at the New School Tishman Auditorium – U100 University Center – 63 Fifth Avenue, free

10/3, 830 PM  Wormburner – who were once Hoboken’s answer to the Jam – at 11th St Bar

10/3, 830 PM a klezmer dance party Ternovka Ensemble featuring gruff-voiced singer Zhenya Lopatnick at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

10/3. 8:30 PM Se-Hee Jin, Yuanyuan Zhou and Chen Li play works by Tan Dun, Zhangzhao, Huanghuwei, Qiqi Liu, Gershwin and Harbison.at Spectrum, $15

10/3, 9 PM uneasily eclectic tropically-influenced singer Renata Zeigeur and band and lush, snidely lyrical parlor pop/new wave band Office Culture playing the album release for their new one at Union Pool, $12

10/3. 9 PM smartly tuneful oldschool soul/psych-pop songwriter Mimi Oz at Bar Chord

10/3, 10 PM ethereal Indian soulstress Shilpa Ananth at C’mon Everybody, $10

10/3, 10 PM punchy noiserockers Big Bliss  at Trans-Pecos, $10

10/3. 10 PM catchy post-Velvets psychedelic band Quicksilver Daydream  at Footlight, $tba

10/3, 10 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin at the Fat CatHes also here on 10/15 and 10/22 at 7

10/4, 5:30 PM eclectic pan-latin and Middle Eastern-inflected acoustic songwriter Miriam Elhajli  at the American Folk Art Museum

10/4, 6 PM intense, soaring harmonium player/singer Elana Low plays the album release party for her new one at Muchmore’s

10/4, 7 PM Belarusian folk-punk band Midevil playing works of Belarusian renaissance composers, and more! at Nublu 151,$30

10/4, 7:30 PM  ambitious, smart, noir-inclined tenor saxophonist Patrick Cornelius  with Pablo Menares on bass and EJ Strickland on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12

10/4, 7:30 PM classical guitarist Laura Snowden plays works by Villa-Lobos and others at the Tenri Institute, $25/$20 stud/rs

10/4, 7:30 PM multimedia group Ensemble Parralax presents an all-Italian program with mezzo-soprano Kathleen Roland, featuring music by Salvatore Sciarrino and Patricia Alessandrini at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

10/4, 7:30 PM a chamber orchestra concert with theme music by Kohei Tanaka, Shiro Hamaguchi, and Shouko Fujibayashi. from the Japanese cartoon series One Piece at the DiMenna Center, $20

10/4. 7:30/9:30 PM avant jazz viola titan Mat Maneri’s Dust Quartet at the Jazz Gallery, $25

10/4, 9 PM third-wave Stooges style rockers Acid Dad, the swirly post-Velvets Meatbodies and Aussie heavy psych band the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $16 gen adm

10/4. 9ish exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets at Troost

10/4, 9 PM brilliantly bluesy Certain General guitarslinger Phil Gammage leads his other rock project, the Rebel Factory at Otto’s

10/4, 10 PM Los Cumpleanos – with Nestor Gomez – vox/percussion; Lautaro Burgos – drums; Eric Lane – keyboards; Alex Asher – trombone and others playing trippy, dubwise tropical psychedelia at Barbes

10/4, 10:30 PM  tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson leads his quintet at the Fat Cat

10/5, 1:30 the Rasslers- Mark Ehrhardt – drums / Chet Mazur – vocals / Tim Mullins – guitar; Nick Romanenko – bass; 3:30 Ava Mendoza – guitar / James Brandon Lewis – tenor sax; Shayna Dulberger – bass / Daniel Carter – woodwinds; 4:30 Welf Dorr Unit – Welf Dorr – alto sax / Keisuke Matsuno – guitar / Dmitry Ishenko – bass at Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St, just east of Essex

10/5, 4 PM cinematic, psychedelic quirk-pop keyboardist Michael Hearst presents “Curious, Unusual and Extraordinary” songs from his many bands followed at  6 by ferociously funny, literate, historically informed oldtimey songwriter Robin Aigner  and bassist Michael Brownell’s Hello Bittersweet and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

10/5 4:30ish Asphalt Orchestra, “Bang on a Can’s radical street band,” performs music by the Pixies, Thomas Mapfumo, Charles Mingus, Frank Zappa, and more” on the plaza at 300 Ashland Place, down the block from BAM,

10/.5, 6 PM charmingly inscrutable Parisienne jazz chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band at Club Bonafide,$20. She’s also here on 10/19 and at the Cutting Room on 1022 at 7:30

10/5, 7:30/9:30 PM epically brilliant, Shostakovich-inspired jazz pianist/composer Fabian Almazan leads his trio at the Jazz Gallery, $25

10/5, 7:15 ish dark psychedelic acoustic blues/klezmer/reggae/soca jamband Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues.

10/5, 7:30 PM ethereal yet powerful parlor pop/goth singer/composer Kristin Hoffmann at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $20

10/5. 7:30 PM Juana Zayas, piano performs works of Debussy and Ravel at the Tenri Institute, $20

10/5, 8 PM saxophonist Antonio Hart leads a quintet with Duane Eubanks, trumpet; Miki Yamanaka, piano; Alex Ayala, bass at Flushing Town Hall $16/$10 srs/free for students 19-under w/ID

10/5, 8 PM maritime music night with the Johnson Girls and Quarterdeck at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

10/5, 8 PM darkly lyrical psychedelic pop songwriter Jennifer Hall at the Parkside

10/5, 8 PM rrepressibly lyrical multi-reedman Ned Rothenberg with Sylvia Courvoisier on piano, Mark Feldman on violin and Mat Maneri on viola at Happy Lucky No. 1 Galley, $20. Rothenberg is also there on 10/6 leading a quartet with Anthony Coleman on piano

10/5, 8 PM trippy, dubby roots reggae and ska sounds with Avo & Skalopy at the Jalopy Tavern

10/5, 9 PM the Jaded Babies play their theatrical, quirky, comedic mashups of punk and art-rock at LP n Harmony, 638 Grand St in Williamsburg, free, take the G to Lorimer

10/5, 9 PM eclectic, electric, guitarishly excellent C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts at Bar Chord

10/5, 9 PM ubiquitous, moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly followed eventually at 11 by psychedelic Brazilian band Os Clavelitos at the small room at the Rockwood

10/5; 9:30 PM a rare NYC appearance by dynamic, visionary, dystopic Humanwine frontwoman Holly Brewer at 66 Greenpoint Ave, $10, G to Nassau

10/5 10 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 10 PM with the percussive Bongo Surf, at 11 guitar mastermind Mike Rosado’s volcanic, pounding Dick Dale-influenced surf band 9th Wave and then at midnight Brooklyn cover crew Band of Others

10/5. 10 PM Certain General guitarslinger Phil Gammage plays his dark Americana and blues at the Way Station

10/5. 10 PM organist: Cory Henry & the Funk Apostles at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $25 gen adm

10/5, 10:30 PM intense, fearlessly relevant Middle Eastern clarinetist Kinan Azmeh with similarly haunting violinist Layale Chaker at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

10/5, 10:30 PM Stoogoid stoner boogie band Sun Voyager and awesomely unhinged horror surf/hotrod instrumentalists the Mad Doctors at the Gutter, $7

10/5, 10:30 PM purist CBs style female-fronted powerpopsters the Carvels NYC – a rare rock band with sax that’s actually good – at the Cobra Club, $10

10/5, 11 PM ferocious, twin guitar-fueled, Radio Birdman-esque psychedelic punks the Electric Mess  at Desmond’s

10/6, 11 AM violinist Grace Park performs a program tba with pianist Joseph Liccardo at Subculture, $20, snacks/coffee included

10/6, 1 PM low-key deep-Brooklyn sounds with Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens playing a gospel brunch show at Bar Lunatico. They’re also here on 10/20

10/6. 1 PM two sets by hard-hitting, brass-fueled newschool latin soul/boogaloo dance band Spanglish Fly  with dance performances at Playground 52 LII, 681 Kelly St, the Bronx , 2/5 to Jackson Ave, (rain location is Bronx Music Heritage Center at 1303 Louis Nine Blvd,

10/6, 3 PM violinist Audrey Hayes leads a trio playing Beethoven’s Archduke Trio plus the Rachamninoff Cello Sonata and works by Natalie Dieterich and Michael Laurello at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, sugg don

10/6, 3 PM John Zorn with Laurie Anderson followed by Zorn’s Cobra at the New School auditorium at 66 W 12th Stl, free registration reqd 

10/6, 3 PM the Greenwich Village Orchestra play Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral and the Dvořák Cello Concerto at All Saints Church, 230 E 60th St (2/3rd Aves) $25 sug don

10/6, 5 PM, repeating 10/7 at 7 Valeria Sholokhova, cello; Yelena Grinberg, piano play works by Fanny Mendelssohn, her bro Felix, Chopin, Kirchner and Schumann at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

10/6, 7 PM singer Christiane Karam leads her Balkan/Middle Eastern jazz band at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

10/6, 7 PM dark cinematic klezmer art-rockers Barbez‘s Dan Kaufman in a rare duo with percussionist/vibraphonist John Bollinger followed at 9:30 by paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

10/6, 7:15 crystalline-voiced acoustic songwriter/storyteller Lara Ewen‘and ubiquitous, moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly at Scratcher Bar, 209 E 5th St

10/6, 7:30 PM a rare NYC appearance by virtuoso classical guitarist Hakob Jaghatspanyan – who excels at both Armenian, flamenco and Romany sounds – at Merkin Concert Hall, $35

10/6, 7:30 PM hypnotically rippling Balinese bell orchestra Cudamani Gamelan at Symphony Space, $30 seatsa avail

10/6, 8 PM perennially tuneful, pensively lyrical Americana janglerocker Mike Ferrio of Tandy and Good Luck Mountain at 11th St. Bar. On 10/10 at 9 PM at Pete’s he’s pulling Good Luck Mountain together for a rare reunion show

10/7, 3 PM the Mannes Orchestra  play Johanna Beyer – Three Movements for Percussion; Ruth Crawford Seeger – Music for Small Orchestra and a Haeyun Kim work at the first-floor auditorium at 63 5th Ave, free

10/7. 6 PM not music-related but scary/important: the opening of photographer Alice Miceli’s Projeto Chernobyl at the Americas Society. “The artist developed a method of image making to document the enduring effects of the Soviet nuclear plant explosion of April 26, 1986. Though gamma radiation continues to be present and to cause health problems and deaths in the area, it is invisible to the naked eye and to traditional methods of photography that have been used to document the region’s ruins. Miceli made this contamination visible via direct contact between the radiation and film, which was exposed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for months at a time.”

10/7, 7:30 PM the Aizuri Quartet play works by Hildegad Von Binghen, Caroline Shaw, Haydn and others at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free

10/7, 8 PM improvisational  viola sorceress Jessica Pavone‘s string quartet play the album release show for their magical new one at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

10/7, 9 PM  sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece and group at the Fat Cat

10/7, 9 PM baritone saaxophonist Alex Harding with Transylvanian pianist Lucian Ban at Bar Lunatico. 10/10 at 7:30/9:30 they’re playing the album release show for their new one at the Jazz Gallery, $15

10/7, 9 PM sharply surrealistic folk noir/outlaw country band Maynard & the Musties at Pete’s

10/7, 9:30ish Gato Loco bass saxophone monster Stefan Zeniuk’s new slightly less crazy band Green Mambo – a Perez Prado tribute – at Barbes

10/8, 11 AM (in the morning) catchy, eclectic ska-pop/latin/reggae sounds from the Brown Rice Family at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/8, 7ish low-key, purposeful, pastoraally-inclined saxophonist Peyton Pleninger and his band play the album release show for his new one on the Ubuntu Rooftop. 977 Jefferson Ave in Bushwick, $10 includes munchies, J to Halsey St., walk back toward Williamsburg

10/8-9, 7:30/9:30 PM drummer Ralph Peterson leads a monster band playing an Art Blakey tribute with Bill Pierce & Donald Harrison – saxophones; Brian Lynch – trumpet ; Zaccai Curtis – piano; Essiet Essiet – bass at the Jazz Standard, $30

10/8, 8 PM bass quartet Large Furniture play works by Julia Wolfe, Robert Honstein, Veronika Krauss and Larry Polansky at Arete Gallery, $tba

10/8-13, 8:30/11PM hard-charging saxophonist Mark Turner leads a chordless trio at the Vanguard

10/8. 9 PM the rambunctious, historically rich 19th century style East River String Band at the Jalopy Tavern

10/8, 9 PM otherworldly French-Algerian singer Ourida with her combo at Bar Lunatico

10/8, 10 PM the Alabama Clash: Lee Bains & the Glory Fires at the Knitting Factory, $12

10/9, 1 PM elegant bop-era guitar legend Gene Bertoncini at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex

10/9, 6:30 PM adventurous cellist Okkyung Lee at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free

10/9, 7:30 PM dark glam/powerpop band Zombie Sundae, sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies, nd colorful, Bowie-esque female-fronted glamrockers the Manimals at Our Wicked Lady, $10

10/9, 7:30 PM a fun, purposeful improvisational twinbill:  Peach and Tomato – Sana Nagano -violin and Leonor Falcón -viola and Sferos Plus – Juanma Trulillo, Hery Paz, Dayeon Seok + Santiago Leibson – at Scholes St. Studios

10/9, 8:30 PM haunting Middle Eastern jazz bassist Petros Klampanis leads his trio playing the album release show for his killer new one at Symphony Space, $27 adv tix rec

10/9, 9 PM irrepressible improvisational violinist  Pauline Kim Harris plays the album release show for her hypnotically atmospheric, electroacoustic new one at the DiMenna Center, $25

10/9, 10 PM art-rock night at Shrine with Joe Deninzon’s wickedly fun string metal band Stratospheerius

10/9, 10 PM uneasy female-fronted psychedelic abstract rock band Gold Dime at Alphaville, $17

10/9, 10:30 PM sizzling postbop tenor saxophonist Carl Bartlett Jr leads a quartet at Smalls

10/10, 7 PM bassist Lisa Hoppe’s chamber jazz trio Third Reality (Charlotte Greve, Lisa Hoppe, Tal Yahalom), Pascal’s Triangle (Pascal Le Boeuf, Martin Nevin, Peter Kronreif ) and accordion genius Shoko Nagai  & Satoshi Takeishi’s Vortex at Greenwich House Music School, $25/$20 stud/srs

10/10-13, 7:30/9:30 PM intense pianist Gerald Clayton leads a trio at the Jazz Standard, $30

10/10, 7:30 PM 7:30 PM  Sharon Goldman – one of the great tunesmiths to come out of the NYC acoustic scene since the turn of the century – and Americana rock siren and ex-Red Molly multi-instrumentalist Carolann Solebello at the vault downstairs at Putnam Pub & Cooker,  419 Myrtle Avo, Ft. Greene, G to Clinton-Washington

10/10, 7:30 PM “Everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death” – a literary-musical collage combining the works of Thomas Bernhard with music by Austrian baroque composers at the Austrian Cultural Center, free w/vsvp 

10/10, 7:30 PM pianist Laura Farré Rozada plays works by contemporary French composers tba at Spectrum, $15

10/10, 7:30 PM Cuban chanteuse Melvis Santa at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/10 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies at Barbes

10/10. 8 PM edgy postbop guitar improviser Liberty Ellman’s Supercell quintet wih Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

10/10, 8 PM “an evening in celebration of Issue Project Room’s beloved late founder Suzanne Fiol. The event is an open showcase of Suzanne Fiol: Ten Years Alive, an exhibition of Suzanne’s mixed media work organized in collaboration with Suzanne’s daughter, Sarah Fiol, who gives an introduction to the work. The evening presents a conversation with Suzanne’s close friends: artists Kathy Brew, Michelle Handelman, and Kimiko Hahn centered around themes from Suzanne’s unfinished book/film proposal The Mothers of Creation / The Matriarch Project,” at Issue Project Room, free

10/10, 8 PM Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis at Merkin Concert Hall, $30 tix avail

10/10, 8:30 PM Dan Blacksberg‘s klezmer dance band at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

10/10 9 PM the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Bar Lunatico

10/17, 9 PM jangly Beatlesque band Coastal Clouds at Arlene’s, $10

10/10, midnight unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project a the small room at the Rockwood

10/11. 7 PM, intense, microtonal string ensemble the Sirius Quartet  For Living Lovers (guitarist Brandon Ross & bassist Stomu Takeishi) and Theremin Noir (Rob Schwimmer, Mark Feldman, Uri Caine) who reinvent Bernard Herrmann film noir scores, at Greenwich House Music School, $25/$20 stud/srs

10/11, 7:30 PM original works by original pianists: Luiz Simas, Armen Donelian and Steve Sandberg plus special guests at Metro Baptist Church, 410 W 40th St, $20/$15 stud/sr

10/11. 7:30 PM composer Molly Herron and the Argus Quartet celebrate the release of their album with music and poetry that explore history and transformation, at 1 Rivington St., $20/$10 stud

10/11, 8 PM Romany-flavored punk night: Uncle Djuzeppe & the Mob and creepy, psychedelic circus rock/Russian folk band Mad Meg at Drom, $15 adv ix rec

10/11, 8 PM Syrian chanteuse Nano Raies at Brooklyn Lutherie, 232 3rd St. in Gowanus, R/F to 4th Ave, $20

10/11, 8 PM poignant, eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo’s tango quartet at Barbess

10/11, 8:30 PM ambitious, perennially tuneful saxophonist Mike McGinnis leads his pastoral jazz Roadtrip nonet at I-Beam, $15

10/11 9 PM ES punk guitar legend Simon Chardiet’s harder-swinging band the Rooftoppers at Sunny’s

10/11. 10 PM Malian duskcore grooves with Danaya Band at Silvana

10/12, noon lustrous singer and badass cello-rock bandleader Serena Jost at Maker Park Radio, 450 Front St. Unit A in Staten Island

10/12, 2 PM free jazz brass and reed legend Joe McPhee at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free

10/12. 4 PM lyrical indie pop cult hero Franklin Bruno followed by the even more vivid Lianne Smith at Pete’s. Irrepressibly sardonic janglerock/folk-punk songwriter, New Yorker illustrator and White Hassle alum Marcellus Hall plays after at 10

10/12, 6 PM ferociously funny, literate, historically informed oldtimey songwriter Robin Aigner  and bassist Michael Brownell’s Hello Bittersweet followed at 10 by singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

10/12, 7 PM purposeful Chicago-style blues guitarslinger Bobby Radcliff at Terra Blues

10/12. 7:30 PM Vidushi Rajyasree Ghosh – vocals; Samir Chatterjee – tabla’ Anirban Chakraborty – harmonium at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

10/12-13, 8 PM adventurous cellist Okkyung Lee leads an ensemble at Happy Lucky No 1 Gallery – 10/13 with atmospheric guitarist/soundscaper Rafiq Bhatia,

10/12, 730/9:30 PM saxophonist Tivon Pennicott leads a big band with a seven-sax frontline at the Jazz Gallery, $15

10/12, 9ish PM socially aware folk vets Dave Lippman at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

10/12. 9 PM dark, new wave-ish lit-rock bandleader Dalton Deschain at Footight Bar, $10

10/12, 9 PM Super Yamba play their undulating psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Nublu 151, $15

10/12, 9:30 PM sardonically relevant guitar-fueled female-fronted Americana punks Spanking Charlene at Hill Country, free

10/12, 10 PM a rare uptown appearance by brilliantly lyrical, conscious roots reggae band Taj Weekes & Adowa at Silvana

10/13, 11 AM colorful, irrepressible, imaginative classical pianist Jenny Lin plays her Etudes Project at Subculture, $20, snacks/coffee included

10/13, 1 PM Greg Lewis’ brilliant, fearlessly political Organ Monk Trio at Bar Lunatico. He’s also there on 10/27 and at the Fat Cat at 10 on 10/24

10/13, 2 PM indie classical ensemble Ymusic play a 70th bday Robert Sirota composer portrait concert at Merkin Concert Hall, $30

10/13, 4 PM the Sometime Boys’ riveting, powerful, theatrical frontwoman Sarah Mucho sings dark cabaret and rock tunes at Freddy’s

10/13, 4 PM Post Moves (solo pedal steel guitar) / Sandy Ewen (solo guitar) / Emilie Weibel (improv vocals) at Arete Gallery, $tba

10/13, 5 PM Frank Donaruma plays a rare program of solo french horn works by Stradella, Poulenc and Alec Wilder at Flushing Town Hall, free

10/13, 6 PM imaginative, tersely atmospheric jazz guitarist Ross Hammond plays solo resonator guitar at Downtown Music Gallery

10/13, 7 PM Bobtown – NYC’s most alluringly lurid folk noir harmony band – play the album release show for their slightly less creepy new one at the big room at the Rockwood. $10

10/13, 7 PM brilliant steel guitarist Mike Neer’s Steelonious – who do Monk covers in the same vein as Buddy Emmons –   followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

1013, 9 PM dark blues/folk noir/oldschool soul songwriter Kelley Swindall  at 11th St Bar

10/13, 9:30 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl and band at Pete’s

10/14, 6 PM the Greenpoint Songwriters Exchange – a diverse bunch playing everything from folk noir to Costelloesque, literatry rock to Indian ragas and oldschool soul – at Pete’s

10/14, 9 PM charismatic, smolderingly intense, politically fearless Tunisian-American art-rock singer Emel Mathlouthi at the Poisson Rouge, $15 adv tix rec

10/14, 8 PM Toot Sweet play twisted theatrical accordion glam rock at the small room at the Rockwood. Cinematic violinist Christina Courtin plays the basement room at 8:30 for $12

10/14, 10ish the NYC Gaita Club – a Bulla en el Barrio spinoff – play rustically pounding Afro-Colombian trance-dance music at Barbes

10/15, half past noon organist Esteban Elizondo Iriarte plays a program TBA at Central Synagogue, 54th/Lex, free

10/15, 7 PM his year’s annual Momenta Festival opens with the Monenta Quartet playing works by Julian Carrillo, Alvin Singleton, Mario Davidovsky:, Matthew Locke and Matthew Greenbaum at the Americas Society, free, rsvp sugg.

10/15, 8 PM intense Balkan chanteuse Jenny Luna‘s haunting, traditional Turkish band Dolunay at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Washington Ave at Fulton, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

10/15, 8 PM allstar Americana jammers the Honky-Tonk Heroes,, featuring Springsteen pianist Charlie Giordano, Gene Yellin, Trip Henderson, Tim Kiah and some surprise guests at the Jalopy Tavern

10/15, 8 PM brilliant bassist Dana Schechter’s haunting slowcore project Insect Ark and Finnish black metal/postrockl band Oranssi Pazuzu at the Poisson rouge, $18 adv tix rec

10/15-20, 8:30/11 PM state of the art tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin leads a quintet at the Vanguard

10/16 7 PM this year’s annual Momenta Festival continues with the Monenta Quartet playing works by Evwin Schulhoff, Robert Sierra, Mario Lavista, LIgeti and Harry Partch at the Americas Society, free

10/16-19, 8:30 PM tuneful, state-of-the-art postbop jazz guitarist Will Bernard  plays with a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School. Choice pick closing night jam with Brian Chase (drums) Charlie Burnham (violin) Kirk Knufke (trumpet) Mike McGinnis (clarinet, sax), remixed live by Ikue Mori

10/16, 1 PM singer Hilary Gardner and stride pianist Ehud Asherie at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex

10/16, 3 PM street brass band Seed & Feed Marching Abominable at Maker Park Radio in Staten Island

10/16, 5 PM street band the Extra Syrup Horns outside the Apollo Theatre

10/16, 7 PM Ryan Truesdell conducts the New School Studio Orchestra playing Bob Brookmeyer compositions at the New School first floor auditorium at 63 5th Ave, free

10/16, 7 PM fiery newschool honkytonk/janglerock bandleader Michaela Anne at the Mercury, $12 av tix rec

10/16, 8 PM energetic retro soul band the California Honeydrops at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $25 gen adm

10/16. 8 PM famenco guitarist/singer Anna Garano at Barbes. 10/23 at 9 she’s at Bar Lunatico

10/16, 9 PM sharply lyrical janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy project the Bastards of Fine Arts at 11th St. Bar

10/16, 9 PM intense, charismatic oldschool soul belter Sami Stevens and unpredictably fun, funny  art-rock/psychedelic soul band the Academy Blues Project  at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass St. in Gowanus, $10

10/16, 9 PM snidely amusing oldschool CBs style punk band the Live Ones at Footlight Bar, $10

10/16, 10 PM energetic delta blues/Romany swing guitaris Felix Slim at LIC Bar

10/17, 7 PM the pretty self-explanatory, deliriously fun Fanfarra Feminina Sagrada Profana, hard-hitting funk/latin bassist Dawn Drake & ZapOte and Dingonek Street Band playing second line, Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz, at Barbes

10/17, 7 PM trombonist Kalia Vandever and her Group followed by cinematic, lyrical postbop jazz with the Mark Wade Trio at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, $10 sug don

10/17, 7:30 PM eclectic soul-jazz alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjami & Soul Squad at Symphony Space, $20 for 30 and under, $30 otherwise

10/17, 7;30 PM violist Jung-Yun Lee plays works by American composers Jack Delano, John Stafford Smith , Alan Hovaness, Daniel Troob at the National Opera Center, 333 7th Ave, free

10/17, 7:30 PM the annual celebration of A People’s History of the United States, performers tba, at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/17, 8 PM deviously funny, clever retro honkytonk crooner Dale Watson at Hill Country, $17

10/17 8:30ish in reverse order at the Bell House : retro rock and blue-eyed woul with Shannon and the Clams, jangly garage-psychedelic band Las Rosas, weird circusy oldschool soul with Champagne Superchillin, ‘$25 adv tix rec/

10/17 830 PM klezmer trumpet icon Frank London & Eleanor Reissa at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

10/17, 10 PM ageless, unstoppable third-wave garage rockers the Fleshtones at Bowery Electric, $18

10/17, 7:30 PM pianist Per Tengstrand and Opus 21 play Gersnwin’s Rhasody in Blue plus works by Schumann at Scandinavia House, $25

10/18. 6ish Sharon Goldman – one of the great tunesmiths to come out of the NYC acoustic scene since the turn of the century and brilliantly lyrical dark oldtimey songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Pete Lanctot at the American Folk Art Museum

10/18 7 PM this year’s annual Momenta Festival continues with the Monenta Quartet playing works by works by Manena Contreras, Alyssa Weinberg: Jason Kao Hwang; Christopher Stark at the Tenri Institute, free

10/18. 7 PM Balkan and other string band madness: Fanfarra Feminina,, theatrical street band Seed & Feed Marching Abominable and Demolition Brass Band at Headroom Bar & Social, 150 Bay St, Jersey City, $12, Path train to Grove St

10/18, 7:30 PM Tito Rodriguez Jr. leads his salsa dura band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/18. 7:30 PM the Sora Quartet, with Emile Blondel and Shawn Barnett play works by Gorecki, Ravel and Faure at Arete Gallery, $tba

10/18, 8 PM surviving improvisers of 60s creative jazz legends the AACM reunite at Symphony Space, $30

10/18-19, 8 PM, repeating 10/22 at 7:30 PM Susanna Mälkki conducts the NY Philharmonic in Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra and Haydn’s Philosopher Symphony, $35 tix avail

10/18. 8:30 PM nimble, pensive acoustic guitarist songwriter Genessa James‘ Onliest,the upbeat, oldtimey Ebony Hillbillies – NYC’s only oldschool African-American string band – and Nashville gothic/janglerock/oldschool C&W band Karen & the Sorrows playing the album release show for their new one at Littlefield, $10

10/18, 9 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at Bar Lunatico

10/18 and 10/20, 9ish psychedelic dark garage legends Thee Oh Sees at Warsaw, $25; the 10/19 show is sold out

10/18,7 PM ambient guitarist and Bowie collaborator Gerry Leonard a.k.a. Spooky Ghost at the basement room at the Rockwood $15. At 10 PM New England Americana songstress Heather Maloney is at the big room at for five bucks more

10/19 3 PM perennially edgy soul survivor Bettye LaVette outdoors on the plaza at 300 Ashland Place up the block from BAM

10/19, 5′:30 PM pianist Isabelle O’Connell pairs works by Chopin and Schubert with more recent pieces b George Crumb and Missy Mazzoli, at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15/$10 stud/srs

10/19 6/8 PM the Pablo Ziegler Chamber Quartet play the album release show for their lush new nuevo tango release at Bargemusic, $35/$30 srs/$15 stud

10/19, 7 PM rudite jazz drummer Winard Harper & Jeli Posse with special guests Jimmy Owens on trumpet, Vanessa Rubin and Charenee Wade on vocals at Flushing Town Hall ,$20/$10 srs/free for students 19-under w/ID

10/19, 7PM this year’s annual Momenta Festival winds up with the Monenta Quartet playing works by Phyllis Chen, Stephanie Griffin, Mozart and Stefano Gervaso at the Tenri Institute, free

10/19, 7 PM the annual, marathon Ragas Live Festival of Indian music at Pioneer Works, nonstop ragas on every instrument imaginable, runs til 7 PM on 10/20, variable pricing depending on how long you’re planning on staying

10/19, 7:30 PM the Juilliard String Quartet play works by Mozart, Britten and others at Washington Irving High School, 40 Irving Pl, $unknown

10/19, 7:30 PM rare slide guitar-ish Indian ragas:  Barun Kumar Pal – hansaveena; Steve Gorn – bansuri flute; Aditya Phatak – tabla at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

10/19, 8 PM Vox Luminis sing Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater and works by Monteverdi and his contemporaries at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, 145 W 46th St,  $30 seats agail

10/19, 8 PM legendary percussionist Pejman Hadadi leads a spellbinding Iranian trio with Saeed Kamjo on kamancheh and Kourosh Taghavi on setar at Roulette, $30 gen adm

10/19, 8 PM fiddler and Carolina Chocolate Drops collaborator Jake Blount and acoustic blues dude Bob Malenky at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

10/19 8 PM legendary Argentine metal band Horcas at Blacktorn 51, $25

10/19, 10:30 PM diverse, smartly playful viola virtuoso/film composer Ljova at the Postcrypt Coffeehouse

10/20, 11 AM Molly Carr, viola, & Anna Petrova, piano play material from their Refugee Project, inspired by their visits to refugee camps around the world at Subculture, $20, snacks/coffee included

10/20, 4 PM sitarist Shafaat Khan at the Queens Botanic Garden, 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, $6, kids free, 7 to Main St./Flushing

10/20, 5 PM pianist Evelyne Luest‘s Contrasts Ensemble play trio works of Brahms, Stravinsky, Clara Schumann and Khachaturian at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/sr

10/20, 5 PM Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin; Yelena Grinberg, piano play works by Clara and Robert Schumann plus Brahms, Kirchner, Reinecke, Dietrich and Joachim at Grinberg’s upper westside piano salon, reception to follow, $35, close to the 1/2/3 train at 96th St., deets here 

10/20, 5:30 PM the mighty, stunningly eclectic, Middle Eastern-tinged Eyal Vilner Big Band at Birdland,$30

10/20, 9 PM thoughtful, original, uncluttered jazz singer/composer Gracie Terzian and violinist, Audrey Hayes.at the small room at the Rockwood

10/21, 8 PM dark intense lyrical southwestern gothic/paisley underground rockers Shanghai Love Motel at Arlene’s, $10

10/21. 8:30 PM  elegant, sharply lyrical parlor pop stylist Heather Eatman at the basement room at the Rockwood $10

10/21. 9 PM ubiquitously purposeful tango bassist Pablo Aslan leads a killer quartet with Frank London on trumpet and Rob Curto on accordion at Bar Lunatico

10/22, 7:30 PM the ferociously edgy all-female Rhythm Method String Quartet play works by Kristin Bolstad and Ole-Henrik Moe (Norway); 19th-century Swedish composer Amanda Erika Maier-Röntgen; and their own violinist Leah Asher at Scandinavia House, $15

10/22, 8 PM Brooklyn Iranian expat janglerock band Habibi followed by legendary Zambian fuzztone garage-psych band WI.T.C.H. (We Intend to Cause Havoc) at the Bell House, $20

10/22, 8 PM first-wave punk legends Stiff Little Fingers – with iconic Jam bassist Bruce Foxton – at Warsaw, $33

10/22, 8 PM bracing avant garde vocal superduo Lea Bertucci and Amirtha Kidambi followed by Japanese band Asa-Chang & Junray in their US debut at Issue Project Room, $15/$12 stud/srs

10/22 9 PM legendary dual-reedman George Braith – who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – leads his quartet at the Fat Cat

10/22 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his group at Smalls

10/23, 8 PM brilliant Middle Eastern multi-instrumentalist Rami Khalife at Drom, $15adv tix rc

10/23. 8 PM composer Nick Hallett and ensemble “return to perform the grand finale of his newest dark comedic opera project, To Music; and composer Emily Manzo presents the world premiere of her new multimedia song cycle, How to Rescue” at Roulette, $18 gen adm

10/23. 8PM Stoogoid stoner boogie band Sun Voyager heavy psych band Heavy Temple and ornate, epic metal crew The Well at St. Vitus, $10

10/23, midnight boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at the Ear Inn

10/24, 6:30 PM (early) mesmerizing, dynamic, psychedelic Malian duskcore band Songhoy Blues at Baby’s All Right, $15

add 10/24, 10ish PM hip-hop legend Wyclef Jean at Chelsea Music Hall

10/24, 7 PM string players/composers Jessica Meyer and Jessie Montgomery premiere their new Lower East Side-themed art-songs at 1 Rivington St., $20/10 stud

10/24, 7:30 PM, repeating 10/26 at 8 Emmanuel Ax & the NY Philharmonic play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 plus works by Roussel, Ravel, Jennifer Higdon, $32 tix avail

10/24, 730/9:30 PM this era’s most cutting-edge, politically relevant large jazz ensemble, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society  at the Jazz Standard, $30

10/24 7:30 PM cellist Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir and ensemble play new Icelandic works by Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, Halldór Smárason and others at Scandinavia House, $25

1024, 7:30 PM in reverse order at Bric Arts: alto powerhouse Ravi Coltrane;s tribute to his mom Alice Coltrane, Cuban pianist Dayramir González & Habana enTRANCé, drummer-composer Makaya McCraven, funky keyboardist  Aaron Whitby‘s Cousin from Another Planet project, vibraphonist Sasha Berliner‘s Azalea, intense, lyrical, politically fearless tenor saxophonist Roxy Coss’ Quintet, and some weirdass lame electronic act to open the show. $30 adv tix rec

10/24, 8 PM a composr portrait of this era’s arguably best jazz pianist, Vijay Iyer including performances by the man himself with violinist Jennifer Koh and eclectic, edgy orchestra the Knights at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

10/24, 8 PM oldschool and newschool folk with eclectic, tuneful accordionist/songwriter Ali Dineen at the Owl

10/24 8 PM sax quartet Nois play darkly pensive works by each of the group’s members at Roulette, $18 gen adm

10/24, 8 PM the Eurasian Symphony Orchestra play works by Saint-Saens, Glnnka, Kreisler, Kazhgaliyev, Sarasate and R.Abdyssagin at Symphony Space, $28 adv ti avail

10/24, 8:30 PM hot klezmer string band music with Hankus Netsky & Eden MacAdam-Somer at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

10/24, 9 PM lyrical latin jazz pianist Aruan Ortiz leads a trio at Bar Lunatico

10/24 11 PM wickedly torchy noir songwriter Julia Haltigan and her killer band play the album release show for her long-awaited new one at the Sultan Room, $10

10/25, 7 PM clarinet wizard Thomas Piercy with Lish Lindsey, ryuteki, flute; Xiao Li, soprano; Chen Yihan, piano play a rare performance of many contemporary Japanese composers plus works by Teubal, Auerbach and Serebrier at Bargemusic, $35/$30srs/$2o sud

10/25, 7:30 PM in reverse order at Bric Arts: Georgia Anne Muldrow, iconic, rapturous AACM pianist/organist Amina Claudine Myers: Generations 4, everybody’s favorite postrock/jazz mashup band Kneebody, vibraphonist Joel Ross’ genuinely Good Vibes, incisive, latin-inspired sax improviser Maria Grand, drummer Tosin Aribisala’s Trio, and QNA (Q&A after maybe???). $30 adv tix rec

10/25, 7 PM legendary horror punk band the Undead at Blackthorn 51, $15

10/25, 7 PM cellist Carolyn Jeselsohn leads an ensemble playing a program tba at Third St. Music School Settlement

10/25, 7:30 PM the two-guitar Alhambra Band with Brahim Fribgane, oud play flamenco jazz at Terraza 7, $15

10/25-27, 7:30/9:30 PM brisk postbop pianist Christian Sands leads his Highwire Trio with Luques Curtis on bass and Ulysses Owens on drums at the jazz Standard, $30

10/25, 8 PM haunting organ-driven bolero band Miramar followed at, 10 PM by  the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy  at Barbes

10/25, 8 PM  careeningly explosive ten-piece Balkan brass crew Veveritse at Silvana

10/25-26, 8 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play Mozart’s Jupiter Symhony plus works by Jessie Montgomery, Haydn, Weber, Jennifer Higdon and Aaron Dai at St. Paul’s Church, 315 W 22nd St., $20 sugg don

10/25, 8:30 PM low-key Americana/country blues songwriter Jon LaDeau plays the album release show for his new one at 11th St Bar

10/25, 8 PM classical avant-punk violin duo String Noise play works by Ki Young Kim at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $25 adv tix rec

10/25, 8:15 PM Eichard Nelson’s cinematically improvisational Makrokosmos Orchestra at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

10/25, 9ish wirly fuzz/dreampop band Mantismass, haunting slowcore/art-rock band Cortége , and intense, menacing stoner/doom band Sleeping Village at Gussy’s Bar in Queens

10/25, 9 PM saxophonist Anant Prahan leads a sextet playing a tribute to Jamaican jazz legend Cedric Brooks at Bar Lunatico

10/26, 6 PM ferociously funny, literate, historically informed oldtimey songwriter Robin Aigner and bassist Michael Brownell’s Hello Bittersweet followed at 8 by art-rocker Pierre de Gaillande’s Bad Reputation playing witty chamber pop English translations of Georges Brassens classics followed at 10 by Dolunay frontwoman Jenny Luna and violinist Skye Steele’s crazy Selena cover band Amor Prohibido at Barbes

10/26, 7 PM Indian odissi dancer Kaberi Sen followed by sitarist Anjan Saha at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

10/26, 7:30 PM Music From China play premieres by Zhong Lu, Chen Yi’ and others at Symphony Space, $18 adv tix rec

10/26, 730 PM in reverse order at Bric Arts: drummer/composer Ben Perowsky, Josh Kaufman & Stuart Bogie of Antibalas; stoner percussion-scaper Kassa Overall, drummer Antonio Sanchez vivid, intense, lyrical jazz pianist Myra Melford ’s Snowy Egret, luminous, soulful pan-Latin jazz chanteuse Claudia Acuña  and high-voltage alto saxophonist Tia Fuller and her band $30 adv tix rec

10/26, 8:30 PM soprano sax star Sam Newsome‘s Imaginary Kraken chamber jazz sextet at I-Beam, 415

10/26, 8 PM crazy segue, great twinbill: ferocious, creepily enveloping, kinetic psychedelic tropicalia band Yotoco and lustrous singer and badass cello-rock bandleader Serena Jost at the Owl

10/26, 9 PM baritone honkytonk crooner Jack Grace resurrects his legendary 90s jamband Steak at Bar Chord

10/26, 9 PM the Delorean Sisters – who do funny oldtimey acoustic covers of cheesy 80s pop songs – at the Delancey, $10

10/26, 9 PM honkytonk guitarslinger Danny Weiss and charming singer Mary Olive Smith’s oldschool C&W band Stillhouse Serenade at the Jalopy Tavern

10/26, 9ish growly, darkly cinematic postrockers Russian Circles at Warsaw, $25

10/27, 11 AM Laura Metcalf (cello) and Rupert Boyd (guitar),play a program tba at Subculture, $20, snacks/coffee included

10/27, starting at 2 PM, going til 9, electric guitar quartet Dither play a marathon show, opening with the world premiere of JG Thirlwell’s Feather Mask for prepared guitar plus selections from their new album, Potential Differences, plus performances by a long list of talent including Alicia Hall Moran and the Mivos Quartet at Frost Theater of the Arts, 17 Frost St. in Williamsburg,, G to Lorimer

10/27 ,2 PM pianist Marika Bournaki plays Beethoven Sonatas Nos. 11, 24 and 31 at Bargemusic, $35/$30 srs/$20 studs

10/27, 2 PM cellist Camille Thomas and pianist Julien Brocal play works by Messiaen, Franck, Brahms and Beethoven at the Town Hall, $tba

10/27. 3 PM classical guitarist Roberto Sánchez performing works by Luys de Narváez, J.S. Bach, G. Regondi, C. Chávez, H. Villa-Lobos, and M.M. Ponce. at St/ Paul’s Chapel downtown, free, reception to follow

10/27, 3 PM Valery Gergiev conducts the Munich Philharmonic playingMendelssohn: Scherzo from Midsummer Night’s Dream; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 and Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 at NJPAC in Newark, $30 tix avail

10/27, 4 PM fiery and elegant dance and music from Georgia and India: Dancing Crane plus Jiva Dance with dancers: Sonali Skandan, Maya Kappil, Amrita Doshi, -plus a band wih attuvangam – Kiran Rajagopalan; vocals: Vignesh Ravichandran; mridangam: Bala Skandan; violin: Neha Krishnamachary at Manhattan Movement Arts Center, 248 West 60th St, $25/$20 stud/srs

10/2, 7 PM surreali art-song chanteuse Leila Adu leads her trio followed at 9:30 by paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

10/27, 7:30 PM an allstar postpunk/CBGB royalty lineup pay tribute to Band of Outsiders’ David Lee: Deerfrance – 7:30pm; Dee Pop/Neon Babies – 8:10pm; Faith NYC – 8:30p; Band of Outsiders – 8:50p; Thomas Simon Vortex – 9:10pm; Phil Gammage Quartet – 9:30pm; Parker Dulany – 9:50pm; Jesse Bates – 10:10pm; Bubble – 10:30 pm; Rebecca Turner – 10:50pm at Berlin, free

10/28, 8 PM astonishingly prolific and acerbic guitarist Mary​ ​Halvorson & John Dieterich of Deerhoof play the album release show for their new duo record A Tangle of Stars at Roulette, $18 gen adm

10/28. 9:30 PM irrepressible storyteller/psychedelic guitarist/new wave cult hero Wreckless Eric and psychedelic janglerock legends the Flamin Groovies at the Cutting Room, $27 adv tix rec. The Groovies are back on the 29th at 10:30 for the same price

10/28. 10 PM colorful,  eclectic, paradigm-shifting B3 jazz organist Brian Charette  leads his organ trio at 55 Bar

10/28, 10 PM ish feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

10/29, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, indie classical allstar quintet Counterinduction –  (Miranda Cuckson, violin; Jessica Meyer, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet; Ning Yu, piano) play music of Jessica Meyer at the Miller Theatre, free

10/29-30, 7:30/9:30 PM intense, darkly lyrical Israeli jazz pianist Shai Maestro leads his trio with Philip Dizack on trumpet at the Jazz Standard, $30

10/29, 7:30/9:30 PM fearlessly political, tuneful trombonist/composer Ryan Keberle‘s Catharsis Trio with Camila Meza on guitar and vocals and Pedro Giraudo on bass at the Jazz Gallery, $15

10/29, 7:30 PM Unheard-Of Ensemble play a program tba at 1 Rivington St., $20/$10 stud

10/29 ,8 PM rising star Omani oudist Amal Waqar with her Quartet, featuring Panagiotis Aivazidis (kanun), Manos Stratis (bass), and Kan Yanabe (percussion), at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Washington Ave at Fulton, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

10/29, 8 PM saxophonist Aaron Burnett’s Big Machine “reflects on society’s urgency for freedom and peace in a world ruled by corporations and overwhelming technology” at Roulette, $18 gen adm

10/29 ,8 PM Ontario newgrass singer/bandleader Christine Smith at Bowery Electric, $10

10/29 8 PM Sephardic dance jamband Yemen Blues at Symphony Space, under 30 $26 adv tix avail, otherwise $30 in advance

10/29-11/3, 8:3/11 PM John Zorn leads a quartet with Julian Lage (guitar); Jorge Roeder (bass); Kenny Wollesen (drums) at the Vanguard

10/29, 9 PM edgy lead guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band at Bar Chord

10/29, 10:30 PM this era’s most intensely powerful tenor saxophonist/composer, JD Allen leads his smoking, intense new quartet at Smalls

10/30 1 PM the Ron Aprea Big Band featuring Angela DeNiro play a Basie tribute at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex

10/30-31 ,7/10 PM the best singing pianist (and the best piano-playing singer) in jazz, Champian Fulton at Birdland, $20 seats avail

10/30, 7:30 PM Raymond Erickson, piano plays Debussy water-themed works plus pieces by Bach, Ravel, Rebikov, Busoni and others at Elebash Hall, 365 5th Ave, free

10/30, 7:30 PM the Mannes Orchestra play works by Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Bahar Royaee and Unsuk Chin at the New School first floor auditorium at 63 5th Ave, free

10/30, 8 PM pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s ferociously kinetic NY Gypsy All-Stars with Ara Dinkjian on oud at Drom, $15

10/30, 8 PM intense, wickedly tuneful jazz oudist/guitarist Gordon Grdina does double duty, first on the north African lute with pianist Russ Lossing and then leading his sizzling Marrow oud jazz quartet at I-Beam, $15

10/30, 8 PM the DaCapo Chamber Players perform works by Jonathan Dawe, Vasiliki Krimitza,Cynthia Folio, Louis Karchin, Jihyun Kim, Bruce Adolphe at Merkin Concert Hall, $20

10/30-31, 8PM the Red Room Orchestra  at Symphony Space, under 30 $26 adv tix avail, otherwise $30 in advance. The 10/30 show features music from The Big Lebowski; 10/31 they’re playing horror film soundtrack material

10/30, 8 PM bump bump, bump-bump, bump: oldschool garage rock with the Schizophonics at Union Pool, $10

10/30, 8 PM guitar goddess Barbara Endes’ exhilarating psychedelic janglerock band Girls on Grass followed by wild Irish band the Narrowbacks and raucous New Orleans psychedelic soul band the Hooten Hollers at Gold Sounds, $10

10/30, 9:30 PM everybody’s favorite zeros-era Led Zep-ish stoner boogie band: Wolf Eyes at Brooklyn Bazaar, $15 adv tix avail at the Poisson Rouge box office

10/30, 10 PM the Plaster Cramp – a darkly lyrical mashup of Velvets and the Talking Heads – at Alphaville, $11

10/31, starting at 3:30 PM a family-friendly Halloween party at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music with “scary sounds, terrifying tempos, insane instruments, and frightening faculty!” free

10/31, 6 PM ish trumpeter Pam Fleming’s wickedly cinematic, sinisterly amusing jazz/reggae/soul crew the Dead Zombie Band at the outdoor Waverly Ave block party in Ft. Greene west of DeKalb, follow the noise and the trick-or-treaters

10/31, 7:30 PM a Mexican Coney Island Halloween with pine-tingling, darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik and cabaret pianist Tareke Ortiz with Matt Kanelos on piano at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/31 7:30/o9:30 PM iconic low register reedman Scott Robinson ‘s Heliotones play their annual Halloween show at the Jazz Standard, $30

10/31, 7;30/9:30 PM ferocious, colorful, cinematic big band Big Heart Machine record a live album at the Jazz Gallery, $15

10/31, 8 PM ish the Coffin Daggers -NYC’s ultimate Halloween horror surf band – at Gold Sounds, $tba

10/31, 8 ish a heavyweight Halloween extravgaza with postrock stoners Dead Satellites, the stampeding Reign of Zanus, ornately intense Goat Reaper,psychedelic doom metal band Clouds Taste Satanic and tight doom metal band Eternal Black, $tba

1031. 8 PM Soundwalk Collective play a live score to the horror classic Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

10/31 8:30/11 PM allstar violinis Jenny Scheinman and drummer Allison Miller’s Parlour Game trio with formidable pianist Carmen Staaf at Birdland, $30 seats avail

10/31, 8:30 PM pyrotechnic clarinetist and Dave Tarras protege Michael Winograd and band at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

10/31 9 PM one of NY’s most versatile, ferocious guitarists, ex-Sharon Jones lead player Binky Griptite and band at Bar Lunatico

10/31, 9ish the circus rock band that started the whole thing – World Inferno at Warsaw, $25

10/31, 9 PM uneful, cinematic jazz trombonist John Yao‘s Tricieratops play the album release show for their new one at the old Nublu

10/31 ,9ish edgy, Romany and latin-spiced dance band Paprika at Branded Saloon

10/31, 9:30 PM purist CBs style female-fronted powerpopsters the Carvels NYC – a rare rock band with sax that’s actually good – and comedic, legenday SoCal first-wave punks the Dickies at Bowery Electric, $206

10/31, 9:30 PM torchy singer Jennifer Charles’ haunting, atmospheric, cinematic art-rock band Elysian Fields at the Sultan Room, $16

10/31, 10 PM best Halloween show of the year is at Starr Bar, 214 Starr St. in Bushwick where ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach are playing the album release show for their new one, $10

10/31, 11 PM  brilliantly bluesy Certain General guitarslinger Phil Gammage at the  small room at the Rockwood

11/4,, 7:30 PM riveting, charismatic, intuitive pianist Karine Poghosyan plays works by Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, $20 tix avail

11/6, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, TAK Ensemble play works by Ashkan Behzadi ,Erin Gee, Taylor Brook , Tyshawn Sorey and David Bird at the Miller Theatre, free

11/7 7:30 PM All-female Korean band The Tune combines shamanistic traditional music with art-rock at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/8, 8 PM the world’s darkest, slinkiest, most blackly funny crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy play the album release show for their danceably creepy new one Dear Trouble at the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St. in Gowanus with special guests Steven Bernstein on trumpet, Slavic Soul Party’s Peter Hess on saxes and Miramar’s Farfisa sorceress Marlysse Rose Simmons, $20

11/14, 7:30 PM the Attacca Quartet with Caroline Shaw (prexumably on vocals and violin) at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/15 7:30 PM conguero Edwin Bonilla leads his salsa dura band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/21, 7:30 PM soca hall of famer Mighty Sparrow in a relatively intimate show, omg, at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

11/21, 8 PM Rena Anakwe “presents the third and final work of her 2019 residency with the premiere of Ogwu (the healing), an immersive purification ritual sculpted through a visual, sound, and scent bath inspired by the element of fire” at Issue Project Room, free

11/24, 5 PM violist Jessica Thompson (Daedalus Quartet) and pianist Andrea Lam (Claremont Trio),team up for works by Bach, Britten, Kurt Rohde, and Schumann at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/sr

11/26, 7:30 PM Cuban pianist Dayramir González & Habana enTRANCé at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

12/10, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, badass harp virtuoso Bridget Kibbey plays works by Bach, Gershwin, Albeniz and Tschaikovsky at the Miller Theatre, free

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for September and October 2019

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, you might want to bookmark this page and check back regularly. 

If you’re leaving your hood, don’t get stuck waiting for a train that never comes, make sure you check the MTA delays and out-of-service page for service cancellations and malfunctions, considering how unreliable the subway is at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you discovered here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar:

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! sug don, email for details/address

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of tropical bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $35 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays at 10 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

Mondays starting at around 10:45 PM Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play two sets at Union Pool. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically woke, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the usual lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests. Sizzling guitarist Binky Griptite – Sharon Jones’ lead player – is also often there.

Tuesdays at 7:30 PM the chamelonic, playful, sometimes irresistibly cartoonish Daniel Bennett Group play jazz outside the box at the third floor bar at the Residence Inn, 1033 6th Ave at 39th St, free

Tuesdays at 9 PM, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes (check the club calendar), $10 cover.

Wednesdays at 9ish the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Most Thursdays at 8:30, the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Thursdays in October, 7 PM fearless, insurgent, amazingly spot-on comedienne/vocal impersonator Tammy Faye Starlite plays Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English at Pangea, $25

Fridays and Saturdays at 5 PM adventurous indie classical string quartet Ethel plus frequent special guests playing a mix of classical and more contemporary material at the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

Fridays at 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Three Saturdays in September: 9/7, 9/14 and 9/28 at 4 PM free concerts at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Three Sundays in September: 9/1, 9/15 and 9/29 Greg Lewis’ brilliant, fearlessly political Organ Monk Trio at Bar Lunatico at 1 PM for brunch. He’s also at Columbus Park – Cadman Plaza East and Johnson St in downtown Brooklyn – at noon on 9/27

Sundays at 5 PM in September at Barbes,  multistylistic, lyrical, improvisational cellist Rufus Cappodocia leads a series of ensembles

Most Sundays at 5:15 PM starting in late September, a free recital on the amazing, powerful, dynamic new organ at St. Thomas Church at 5th Ave and 53rd St. featuring some of the world’s greatest organists. The space is magnificent and the music usually is too. Right now the church fathers are programming pretty much everybody who used to work here and play the mighty old Aeolian-Skinner organ that finally had to be replaced. Check the concert calendar for details.

Sundays at 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of groups at the Bar Next Door

Sundays at 9:30 PM paradigm-shifting Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel leads his band at Barbes – check the club calendar just to make sure.

9/1,  3 PM ish the largescale improvisational ensemble who started it all, the Sun Ra Arkestra outdoors at Union Pool, free. 9/14 at 2 PM they’re at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown, free

9/1, 6 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini at LIC Bar

9/1,  7 PM brilliant steel guitarist Mike Neer’s Steelonious – who do Monk covers in the same vein as Buddy Emmons –   followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

9/1, 8 PM perennially tuneful, pensively lyrical Americana janglerocker Mike Ferrio of Tandy and Good Luck Mountain at 11th St. Bar

9/1, 9 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel & the Two Cent Band at Sunny’s

9/2, 7 PM raucous oldtimey swing street band Tuba Skinny at the Cutting Room, $15 adv tix rec

9/2, 8 PM sly hokum blues/jugband Ellis Dyson & the Shambles at the Mercury, $12 adv tix rec 

9/2, 9 PM  rapturousy subtle tropicalia drummer/singer (and former Chicha Libre timbalera) Karina Colis leads a piano jazz quartet at Bar Lunatico. They’re also at the Fat Cat at 7 on 9/21

9/2, 9:30ish Gato Loco bass saxophone monster Stefan Zeniuk’s new slightly less crazy band Green Mambo – a Perez Prado tribute – at Barbes

9/3, 7 PM Trio Kirovski: Ljubisa Kirovski- violin and viola; Maja Sutevska Kirovska-piano; Aleksandra Kirovska -guitar play works by Fazil Say, Viilla-Lobos and Piazzolla at Klavierhaus, 790 11th Ave (corner of 54th St)

9/3, 7 PM sweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece and group at the Fat Cat

9/3, 7 PM bass-baritone John Taylor Ward “ventures into rare worlds of medieval and folk music with Cantata Profana‘s artistic director Jacob Ashworth on violins and vielles, and special guests Nina Stern on every kind of recorder and wind instrument you can imagine, and Paul Morton on lutes, guitars, and banjo” at Joe’s Pub, $15

9/3, 7:30 PM an interesting duo: Geoffrey Keezer on piano and Joe Locke on vibes at Mezzrow, $20. 9/4 Keezer is here with Ben Williams on bass

9/3, 7:30/9:30 PM iconic bass vet Rufus Reid leads a trio bolstered by the stark microtonal  Sirius Quartet at the Jazz Standard, $30

 9/3, 7:30 PM an avant garde vocal summit: Charmaine Lee with powerhouse pianist Conrad Tao, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Australian soprano Jane Sheldon at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

9/3, 8 PM the lavish, wickedly catchy Petey & the True Mongrel Hearts with their darkly defiant vintage Springsteenian rock and soaring four-part harmonies at the Bitter End

9/3, 8 PM a tribute to influential trumpeter Laurie Frink with Chloe Rowlands and Zen Demon Snaps with fellow trumpeters Jesse Neuman ,Nadje Noordhuis , Dave Ballou , Rich Johnson , Jeff Davis on drums, $10 followed by Rowlands leading her quartet with Roberto Giaquinto on drums, Myles Sloniker on bass, Michael Mayo on vocals at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass St, Gowanus 

9/3, 8 PM tuneful latin-inspired pianist/organist Bennett Paster at Halyards

9/3-8, 8:30/10 PM wildly popular classic jazz pianist Bill Charlap leads his trio at the Vanguard, $35. Then they’re back again 9/10-15. He’s also doing a very rare free show with veteran singer Sandy Stewart at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex on 9/4 at 1 PM

9/3, 9ish wild, hilarious klezmer punks Golem at Union Pool, free!

9/3, 9:30 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl and his group at Pete’s

9/4, 7 PM the Hot Club of Cowtown – who are just as wildly fun with western swing as they are at Django-style Romany guitar jazz – at the big room at the Rockwood, $25

9/4, 7:30 PM the Mannes Wind Orchestra play works by Mozart, Richard Srauss, Prokofiev, Frank Zappa and others at the auditorium at 66 W 12th St., free

9/4, 7:30/9:30 PM a Booker Little tribute with trumpeters Charles Tolliver, Dave Douglas , Riley Mulherkar, Greg Tardy on tenor, Natalie Cressman on trombone Frank Kimbrough on piano, James Genus on bass, Clarence Penn on drums, $30

9/4, 7:30 PM avant garde vocal summit, night two: terse, enigmatic singer/percussionist Anais Maviel, indie classical star Kate Soper, politically woke composer/vocalist Ted Hearne at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

9/4, 8 PM the Three Thirds, i.e. two thirds of the Andy Statman Trio with one third of western swing band Brain Cloud. With Larry Eagle – drums; Jim Whitney – bass; Raphael McGregor – lap steel and Grant Gordy – guitar at Barbes

9/4, 8:30 Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and Middle Eastern flavored hash smoking anthems at Troost

9/4, 9 PM wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers at 11th St Bar

9/4, 9 PM first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall and his killer group at Skinny Dennis

9/4, 9 PM ferocious, politically smart punk en Espanol band Miedo at Brooklyn Bazaar, $10 

9/4, 10 PM haunting folk noir/Americana songwriter Emily Frembgen at LIC Bar. 9/14 at 9 PM she’s at Pete’s 

 9/5, 6 PM epic drone-psych/postrock band Cosmic Monster at Holo, free 

9/5, 7 PM fearlessly political, scruffy punk band Jack and the Me Offs at Arlene’s, $10 

 9/5, 7:30/9:30 PM lyrical, erudite, blues-infused tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger plays the album release show for his new one Preminger Plays Preminger, inspired by the films of his uncle Otto, with a killer quartet including Jason Moran on piano at the Jazz Standard, $30

9/5, 7:30 PM deviously fun, mind-warpingly multistylistic keyboardist Aaron Whitby‘s Cousin From Another Planet psychedelic funk project at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

9/5, 7:30/9:30 PM powerhouse reedwoman Anna Webber  leads a septet featuring Matt Mitchell on piano at the Jazz Gallery, $15

9/5, 7:30 PM avant garde vocal summit, night three: opera star Stephanie Blythe, atmospheric Hindustani singer/multi-instrumentalist Arooj Aftab with Vijay Iyer on piano & Shahzad Ismaily on bass, and vocalese composer/improviser Erin Gee at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

9/5, 8 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez. followed at 10 by  purposefully atmospheric  indie classical guitarist Gyan Riley at Barbes. She’s also at Pangea on 9/22 at 7 for $25

9/5, 8 PM bass goddess/soul singer Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith  acoustic at the small room at the Rockwood

9/5, 8:30 PM Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury (sitar), Harsh Shah (tanpura) and Mir Naqibul Islam (tabla) play Indian classical ragas at the Jalopy, $15

9/5-7, 8:30 PM Pulitzer-winning avant garde vocal icon Du Yun plays with a series of ensembles at the Stone, $20. Choice pick: closing night with Du Yun + Ok Miss: Aakash Mittal (winds) Nich Olas Farrell (guitar, bass) Grey McMurray (guitar) Shayna Dunkleman (drums)

9/5, 9 PM sharply literary, ten-piece country/carnivalesque/acoustic rock powerhouse M Shanghai String Band at Pete’s

9/5, 9 PM Soul Gnawa – the new psychedelic/downtempo project from Innov Gnawa‘s Samir Langus and guitarist Daniel Freedman – at Bar Lunatico

 9/5, 9 PM Certain General guitarslinger Phil Gammage and band play the album release show for their new one at 11th St. Bar. 9/7 he’s at Shrine at 9 andat Cowgirl Seahorse in the South St. Seaport at 7 on 9/30

9/5, 9 PM enigmatic indie classical composer/performer Paula Matthusen at Spectrum, $15

9/6, 7 PM a mass improvisation workshop/concert with the Hugh Ragin Creative Orchestra at the New School, Stiefel Hall, 4th Floor, 55 West 13th St, $15, free for students

9/6, 7:30 PM Ensemble Ipse perform a workshop version of Max Giteck Duykers’ new opera Both Eyes Open, about the aftereffects of WWII imprisonment on Japanese-Americans. “Seen through the eyes of a Japanese-American farmer’s wife’s ghost, and his resurrected, once buried, zen Buddhist daruma doll, the farmer returns alone after the war to his darkened fields having lost his family and livelihood, struggling to find his path again. Singers Kelvin Chan, Kalean Ung, and John Duykers star in this piece that revisits and illuminates this pivotal period of U.S. history and its divergent perspectives, and sheds light on the current state of xenophobia and polarizing socio-political beliefs,” at Shapeshifter Lab, $20/$10 stud/srs

 9/6-7, 7:30 PM intense, lyrical, politically fearless tenor saxophonist Roxy Coss leads her quintet followed by trumpeter Alex Sipiagin leading his with Chris Potter on tenor at Smalls

9/6-7, 8 PM irrepressibly lyrical multi-reedman Ned Rothenberg with Sylvie Courvoisier on piano, Mark Feldman on violin and Mat Manieri on viola at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery ,$20

9/6-7, 8:30 PM ($15), repeating 9/8, 4 PM, 9/11-14 and 9/17-21 at 8:30 PM ($25) Kamala Sankaram’s new experimental opera Looking at You, “driven by a score for three saxophones, piano, and electronics, a story of high-tech espionage and romance fusing Edward Snowden and Casablanca. Reflecting the audience’s online identity in real time, Looking at You raises urgent questions surrounding online communication, privacy, and the reinvention of capitalism in the age of public data,” at HERE, 145 Sixth Ave. south of Spring, past the park on the west side of the street

9/6, 8 PM dark cabaret legend Sanda Weigl and her trio followed at 10 by Pangari & the Socialites playing classic ska and rocksteady – most of it from the 60s Skatalites catalog – at Barbes 

9/6, 9ish haunting, dynamic, charismatic Romany/Balkan chanteuse Eva Salina with pyrotechnic accordionist Peter Stan at the Owl

9/6, 9 PM  jangly Laurel Canyon psych-folk songwriter Rebecca Turner followed by folk noir/outlaw country band Maynard & the Musties at Pete’s

9/6, 9 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at Bar Chord. 9/9 they’re at the Ear Inn at midnight

9/6, 9 PM honkytonk guitarslinger Danny Weiss and charming singer Mary Olive Smith’s oldschool C&W band Stillhouse Serenade at Sunny’s. 9/28 at 9 PM they’re at the Jalopy Tavern

9/6, 10 PM real Jamaican roots reggae with Royal Khaoz at Shrine

9/6, 10:30 PM tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson leads his quintet at the Fat Cat

9/7, 1/3 PM intense, microtonal string ensemble the Sirius Quartet play works by Jeremy Harman, Fung Chern Hwei, Gregor Huebner, plus original arrangements of Radiohead & the Beatles in the park on Governors Island

9/7, 1:30 PM Lisa Sokolov – voice, piano; 2:30 Sheila Maldonado – poetry // Danny Shot – poetry; 3:30 Patrick Holmes – clarinet / Adam Lane – bass / Ryan Sawyer – drums at 6BC Garden, 630 E 6th St between Ave B and C

9/7, 2 PM avant vocalist Jessika Kenney at the James Cohan Gallery 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free 

9/7, 4 PM cinematic, psychedelic quirk-pop keyboardist Michael Hearst presents “Curious, Unusual and Extraordinary” songs from his many bands followed at 8 by poignant, eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo’s tango quartet and at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

9/7, 7 PM pianist Alexis Marcelo solo, clarinetist Francois Houle solo and drummer Andrew Drury solo with percussion, photography, video at Soup & Sound, 292 Lefferts Ave, Crown Heights, 2 to Sterling St., sug don

9/7, 7 PM political noisepunks Junta, ambient noisemakers PrieSTusSSY and Kelsey Pyro, noisy new wave/punk soul band Turqiouz Noiz, and others on a multi-band immigrant music bill at Abrons Arts Center, $5 

9/7, 7 PM music for brass and electronics by Sarah Belle Reid, with special guests Nate Wooley & the Mannes brass studio at the New School, Stiefel Hall, 4th Floor, 55 West 13th St, $15, free for students

9/7, 7:30 PM rapturous Indian carnatic singer Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik with harmonium and tabla at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

9/7, 7:30 PM new sounds from a modern string band, featuring Alexi Kenney, violin, Ayane Kozasa, viola, Gabriel Cabezas, cello, and Paul Wiancko, cello with styles ranging from the French baroque, traditional Swedish folk tunes, and new works and arrangements by Paul Wiancko and Gabriella Smith at 1 Rivington St., 2nd floor, $20/$10 stud, reception to follow

9/7, 8 PM quietly enveloping, ecologically-focused Malagasy singer Razia Said at Club Bonafide, $20

9/7, 9 PM ubiquitous, moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly at the small room at the Rockwood. 9/8 at 8 PM he’s at 11th St Bar 

9/7, 9ish psychedelic Afrobeat band Super Yamba play the album release show for their new one at the Knitting Factory, $12

9/7. 10 PM smartly lyrical, eclectically tuneful 70s British style pub/punk rockers Binky Phillips & the Planets at Arlene’s, $10

9/7, 10 PM second wave heavy psych/doom legends Nebula at St. Vitus, $15

9/7, 11 PM Indian raga pianist Utsav Lal at the Owl

9/8, 1 PM low-key deep-Brooklyn sounds with Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens playing a gospel brunch show at Bar Lunatico. They’re also here on 9/22

9/8, 1:30 PM Steve Swell – trombone / Frode Gjerstad – clarinet, alto sax / William Parker – bass; 3:30 Sarah Bernstein Veer Quartet: Sarah Bernstein – violin, composition / Sana Nagano – violin; Leonor Falcon – viola / Nick Jozwiak – cello; 4:30 Aquiles Navarro – trumpet / Tcheser Holmes – drums at 6BC Garden, 630 E 6th St between Ave B and C

9/8. 2 PM cinematic indie classical group Ashcan Orchestra, sound art duo Skakkun & Spadine and Gamelan Gender Wayang on Governors Island

9/8. 3 PM ish eclectic pan-latin and Middle Eastern-inflected acoustic songwriter Miriam Elhajli and fiery oldtimey string band the Four O’Clock Flowers at Washington Square Park. 9/9 at 9 she’s at Troost

9/8, 3:30 PM a rare NYC performance by Japanese trio Jaquwa – koto, shakuhachi and bass – at the Tenri Institute, $tba

9/8, 4 PM the Sometime Boys’ riveting, powerful, theatrical frontwoman Sarah Mucho sings dark cabaret and rock tunes at Freddy’s

9/8, 5 PM exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets at LIC Bar

9/8, 5 PM, repeating 9/11 at 7 irrepressible classical pianist and impresario Yelena Grinberg  plays an all-Clara Schumann program at her Upper West Side salon, $35 includes reception and lively banter afterward

9/8, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

9/8, 7 PM Dilemastronauta Y Los Sabrosos Cosmicos with members of M.A.K.U and Combo Chimbita play space cumbia and other trippy tropicalia and eerily twinkly psychedelic band La Chamba at Baby’s All Right, $12 

9/8, 7 PM catchy, anthemic newgrass/blue-eyed soul band the Levins at the basement room at the Rockwood, $12

9/8, 7:30 PM Big Lazy noir guitar mastermind Steve Ulrich in a rare duo show with bassist /Michael Bates at the McKittrick Hotel, 530 W 27 St, free, look for the littel red light

9/9, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads his group from behind the Rhodesl at55 Bar

9/9, 7:30/9:30 PM trumpeter Samantha Boshnack’s awesome string-driven Seismic Belt septet followed by fellow brass guy John Raymond‘s quintet with Julian Shore on keys at the Jazz Gallery, $20

9/9, 9 PM adventurous bassist Eivind Opsvik leads a killer quintet with Jacob Sacks on piano at Bar Lunatico

9/9, 9:30 PM “the Slippery Fish pay tribute to the Mexican pedal steel master Tõno Quirazco, who in the 1960’s combined the new sound of ska music out of Jamaica with country twang to invent a twist on the Caribbean sound.,” at Barbes

9/10. 6 PM Renee Neufville & ipanist Sullivan Fortner play a Roy Hargrove tribute in conjunction with the new photo exhibit at the Jazz Gallery, free, get there on time

9/10, 6 PM pianist Stephen Gosling plays an all John Zorn program at the Miller Theatre, free

9/10, 6 PM wryly funny Colorado newgrass band the Stillhouse Junkies at the small room at the Rockwood 

9/10, 7 PM crazy Slavic Soul Party spinoff Free Range Rat – trumpeter John Carlson, saxist Eric Hipp, bassist Shawn McGloin, and drummer Mike Sarin – followed by SSP themselves at Barbes, $10

 9/10 and 9/17, 7 PM the great unsung NYC hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin at the Fat Cat

9/10, 7 PM Slovenian saxophonist Jan Kus’ Slavo Rican Assembly at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City

9/10, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian at 55 Bar

9/10. 8 PM Lebanese oudist George Abud and band at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St. at Washington, C to Clinton-Washington, sug don

9/10, 8 PM satirical Russian Romany folk-punk band Paperny Tam at Drom, $30

9/10-14, 8:30 PM dynamic avant-garde harp luminary Zeena Parkins plays with a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: Friday the 13th with the MZM Trio: Myra Melford (piano); Miya Masaoka (koto)

9/10, 10 PM slashing guitarist Steve Antonakos plays slide guitar blues with his band at Bar Chord

 9/10, 11 PM Spanish punk band La Urss at Brooklyn Bazaar, $10

9/11, 8:45 AM (in the morning)choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi’s Table of Silence tribute to 9/11, led by Buglisi Dance Theatre joined by 150+ dancers and chamber ensemble, ending precisely at 8:46 AM to commemorate when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. Audiences are invited to join the dancers at that time in lifting their arms upward for one minute, on the plaza at Lincoln Center 

9/11, 6:30 PM haunting classical Iraqi crooner Hamid Al-Saadi with iconic trumpeter/santoorist Amir Elsaffar at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown, free

9/11, 6:30 PM an eclectic lineup including Asako Tamura, soprano; Yurika Mihara, piano; the HaraHara vocal quartet; Japan Choral Harmony and Circle Wind Chamber Orchestra, playing a Fukushima memorial concert featuring works by Mozart, Faure, Tomas Luis de Victoria and others at Merkin Concert Hall, $10

 9/11, 7 PM purposeful postbop jazz guitarist Amanda Monaco plays the album release show for her new klezmer jazz album at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

9/11, 7 and 8:30 PM a 9/11 memorial concert with works by Bach, Barber, Bottoms, Chopin, and others played by Mark Peskanov, violin, Rita Sloan, piano; David Bottoms, piano and others at Bargemusic, free, early arrival a must

 9/11, 7/10 PM lyrical latin jazz pianist Manuel Valera and his quartet play an Ernesto Lecuuona tribute at Birdland, $20 at the bar

9/11, 7:30/9:30 PM whirlwind jazz drummer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom at the Jazz Standard, $30

9/11, 8 PM otherworldly French-Algerian singer Ourida with her combo at Barbes

9/11, 8 PM smartly tuneful oldschool soul/psych-pop songwriter Mimi Oz followed eventually at 11 by guitarslinger Mallory Feuer’s fiery band the Grasping Straws – sort of a mashup of Patti Smith and Hole’s first album – at Muchmore’s

9/12, 6 PM not a music event but very cool: “Over a period of 6 years beginning in 2011, Jon Crispin photographed over 400 suitcases that were brought to the Willard Psychiatric Center in Willard, NY by patients who were being admitted to the facility. Many of the owners of the cases lived at Willard most of their adult lives, and are buried in the cemetery across the road from the institution. The collection is housed at The New York State Museum and dates from between 1910 and 1965, is completely unique and is an amazing reflection of the lives of the patients. Jon’s presentation will cover his previous documentation of abandoned 19th Century New York State Asylums as well as his work with the suitcases,” at the New School 12th floor skyroom at w W 13th St.

9/12, 7 PM anthemic, evocative, allusive parlor-soul songwriter Treya Lam at the Museum of Chinese in America, $15 includes a drink and museum adm 

9/12, 7 PM  soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis at 55 Bar

9/12, 7 PM fearless, insurgent, amazingly spot-on comedienne/vocal impersonator Tammy Faye Starlite plays Marianne Faithfull’s Broken English at Pangea, $20. She’s also there on 9/19 and 9/25

9/12, 7:30 PM Texas-Colombian bandleader Kiko Villamizar plays oldschool 60s Colombian gangsta cumbia plus psychedelic cumbia grooves at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

 9/12-15, 7:30/9:30 PM soaring, politically relevant, brilliantly purposeful alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon  plays material from his fantastic new album with a killer quartet including Luis Perdomo on piano at the Jazz Standard, $30

9/12, 8 PM intense, charismatic oldschool soul belter Sami Stevens at the small room at the Rockwood

9/12, 8 PM two intriguing trumpet-led bands: Gileno Santana and trio followed by Linda Briceño with Jorge Glem (cuatro), David Alastre (keys), Endea Owens (basss), Daniel Prim (drums), at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15

9/12, 8 PM magical Indian percussionist Rajna Swaminathan leads her jazz quartet with Maria Grand on sax and Miles Okazaki on guitar at Roulette, $18 adv tix rc

 9/12, 8:30 PM the New Thread Saxophone Quartet play the album release for their debut record featuring works by James Ilgenfritz, Len Tetta, Jude Thomas, and Amy Beth Kirsten at the Tenri Institute, $10 for the show, $20 for show and cd 

 9/12, 8:30 PM transgressively funny postbop saxophonist Jon Irabagon  with Peter Brendler on bass and Mark Ferber on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12

9/13, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter at 55 Bar

 9/13, 7 PM pianist Lara Downes plays the album release show for her new new one featuring women composers Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Meredith Monk, Nina Simone, Paola Prestini, Joni Mitchell, and more with a stellar cast – Bridget Kibbey, harp; Magos Herrera, vocals; Simone Dinnerstein, piano – at National Sawdust, $35 in advance includes a cd, or $25 without one

9/13. 7 PM Indian classical singers Sanjoy Banerjee and Namami Karmakar sing night ragas with Dibyarka Chatterjee on tabla and Anirban Chakrabarty on harmonium at the Rubin Museum of Art, $30

9/13, 8 PM perennially entertaning Irish party band Shilelagh Law at Connolly’s, $tba

9/13, 8 PM hilarious, satirical faux cabaret chanteuse Cat Cohen followed by scampering, irrepressibly fun girlpunk/psychedelic band Sharkmuffin at Trans-Pecos, $12 

9/13 at 8 PM, repeating 9/14 at 7:30 pianist Melody Fader and violinist Doori Na play Wolfgang Rihm’s ethereal score to Miro Magloire‘s new dance piece at City Center Studio 5, 130 W 56 St, $33/$20 stud/srs

9/13, 8:30 PM surf rock night, in reverse order at the Gutter: the Vivisectors – who make macabre surf rock out of old Soviet prison songs –  60s mod Britrock band the Skates, the eclectically cinematic Cameramen, and the similarly cinematic, more dramatic TarantinosNYC. $7

9/13, 9 PM lively oldtimey swing road warriors the Bumper Jacksons play the album release show for their new live one at the Jalopy, $15

9/13, 10 PM unpredictably fun, funny, occasionally Lubowski-esque psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at Silvana

9/13, 11 PM one of the year’s best twinbills: savage, theatrical Romany punk band Bad Buka – like a louder, more Balkan Gogol Bordelllo – and slinky metal cumbia/skaragga band Escarioka at Drom, $10

9/14, 1:30 Rob Brown – alto sax / Juan Pablo Carletti – drums; 3:30 Val Jeanty – percussion / Patricia Nicholson – dance; 4:30 Michael Wimberly – drums / Waldron Ricks – trumpet / Larry Roland – bass at Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St, just east of Essex

9/!4. 4 PM sharply amusing, wickedly lyrical, politically woke lit-rock singer/pianist Dawn Oberg at the small room at the Rockwood

9/14, 4:30 PM elegantly angst-fueled, individualistic torchsong/parlor pop piano chanteuse Jeanne Marie Boes followed at 5:30 by Melissa Gordon of Melissa & the Mannequins, one of the best purist janglerock songwriters in NYC, at LIC ,Bar. Gordon is also leading a Dead cover band there on 9/25 at 9; might be worth taking a chance on that too.

9/14, 7 PM piano/cello/violin trio Ensemble in Process play works by Messiaen, Satie, Missy Mazzoli, Michael Gordon, Meredith Monk and others at Spectrum, $15

 9/14, 7:30 PM guitarist Nick Millevoi’s Desertion Trio play their twisted spaghetti western jazz at Greenwich House Music School, $15

9/14, 8 PM trumpeter Ben Holmes’ broodingly Middle Eastern/klezmer-tinged Naked Lore trio followed at 10 byfollowed by live dub band Combo Lulo at Barbes

9/14, 8 PM majestic, slinky cumbia accordionist/bandleader Gregorio Uribe at SOB’s, $15

 9/14, 8 PM adventurous cellist Okkyung Lee leads an ensemble tba at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery ,$20

9/14, 8 PM sincere, politically aware oldschool-style hippie folk guy/girl duo Jaeger & Reid plus the harmony-fueled Lizzie Hershon & the Living Room Singers at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

9/14. 8:15 PM the Jaded Babies play their theatrical, quirky, comedic mashups of punk and art-rock at Bowery Electric , $tba

9/14, 8:30 PM the Mercantillers sing sea chanteys at Freddy’s

9/14, 9 PM deliciously brass-heavy retro 60 soul band Jeremy Beck & the Heavy Duty Horns at the big room at the Rockwood

 9/14, 10 PM legendary 80s NYC goth band Night Gallery play their final show at the Mercury, $10

9/15, 1:30 Nick Lyons – alto sax / Bill Payne – clarinet / Adam Lane – bass; Michael Wimberly – percussion; 3:30 Karen Borca Trio – Karen Borca – bassoon / Jackson Krall – drums / Hilliard Greene – bass; 4:30 We Feel ­­Quartet: Luke Stewart – bass / Daniel Carter – multi instruments / No Land – poetry Miriam Parker – dance at Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St, just east of Essex

9/15, 3 PM clarinetist Graeme Johnson leads a wind and horn sextet playing works by Weber, Mozart, Crusell and Beethoven at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, sugg don

9/15, 5 PM new music for the medieval viola d’amore by Reena Esmail, Conor Abbott Brown, Jake Heggie, Garth Knox and a premiere from Eric Sawyer, featuring violist Matthew Dane, cellist Greg Beaver, and flutist Christina Jennings at 1 Rivington St., upstairs, $15/$10 stud

9/15, 7 PM a trio of intense solo improvisers: pianist Cat Toren, Jessica Pavone (solo viola) , Catherine Sikora (solo saxophone) at El Barrio Art Space, 215 E. 99th St (ground floor), $20

9/15, 7 PM intriguing, Bartokian flute/violin/bass ensemble the Bateira Trio followed by cinematic, lyrical postbop jazz with the Mark Wade Trio at the National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave, 7th Fl, $20. Wade is also at Flushing Town Hall on 9/21 at 2:30 PM for $10 

9/15, 7 PM spine-tingling, darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC –  at Pangea

9/15, 7 PM pensively intense microtonal violinist/singer Sarah Bernstein‘s excellent Veer Quartet with Sana Nagano – violin; Leonor Falcón – viola; Nick Jozwiak – cello  at Spectrum $15

9/15, 8 PM psychedelic funksters Here Come the Mummies at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix rec

 9/15, 8:30 PM Treesearch – bassist Kyle Motl and violinist Keir GoGwilt – play new instrumentals from their forthcoming record at Spectrum, $15

9/15, 10:30 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads his combo at Smalls

9/15, 11 PM acerbic, sharp original jazz pianist Julia Chen with her trio at the small room at the Rockwood 

9/16, 6:30 PM Lisa Hoppe on bass with Gaya Feldheim Schorr on vocals and Keiko Matsuro on guitar at the Bar Next Door, free

9/16, 7:30 PM the Claremont Trio play works by Gabriela Lena Frank, Brahms and Dvořák at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free

9/16, 7:30 PM the Mannes American Composers Ensemble play works by Jennifer Higdon, Eve Beglarian, Mari Esabel Valverde and others at the auditorium at 66 W 12th St., free

 9/16, 9 PM legendary dual-reedman George Braith – who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – with his quartet at the Fat Cat

9/16, 10 PM ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

9/17, 7 PM ferocious Chicago-style electric blues guitarslinger Ana Popovic at the Cutting Room, $25 gen adm

9/17, 7:30 PM the Manhattan Chamber Players perform works by Ravel, Saint-Saens and Faure at the Baruch College Auditorium, $21/free for students

 9/17, 8 PM Cape Verde morna ballad singer Lucibela and band in a rare NYC performance at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

 9/17-21 8:30 PM adventurous pianist Matt Mitchell  plays with a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: 9/20 wth Snark Horse 1 with Kate Gentile (drums, compositions) Ava Mendoza (guitar) Kim Cass (bass) Davy Lazar (trumpet) Matt Nelson (tenor sax)

 9/17. 9:30 PM legendary 80s psychedelic Americana pioneers the Long Ryders at Rough Trade, $18 adv tix rec

9/18, 6:30 PM haunting jazz pedal steel virtuoso Susan Alcorn at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free

9/18, 7:30 PM the Mannes Orchestra play works by Eisler, Barber and Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 at the auditorium at 66 W 12th St., free

9/18, 8 PM fearlessly relevant latin rock songwriter and protest song connoisseur Ani Cordero plays the album release show for her new one at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

9/18, 8 PM elegant jazz singer Karen Tennison and band at LIC Bar 

 9/18, 9 PM jangly, psychedelic 90s Hoboken legends Speed the Plough at Bowery Electric, $10

9/18. 9:30 PM fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/roadhouse jamband Lizzie & the Makers at 11th St. Bar

 9/18, 9:30 PM composer Audrey Harrer -with processed harp and melodic vocal loops – plus special guest cellistKristen Drymala from the band Quarterly. at Shapeshifter Lab, $12

 9/19,, 7:30.9:30 PM rapturous Indian improvisation with pyrotechnic vocalist Roopa Mahadevan, Arun Ramamurthy –violin; Sriram Raman –mridangam at the Jazz Gallery, $15

 9/19 7:30 PM lyrical, latin-tinged pianist Helen Sung  & the (re)Conception Project with John Ellis on tenor sax and Ingrid Jensen on trumpet at Smalls

9/19, 7:30 PM Korean janggu drummer Kim So Ra leads a thunderous percussion troupe at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

9/19,, 7:30 PM this era’s most spellbinding oldschool country singer, Laura Cantrell on the roof of the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St., Gowanus, free followed by the documentary film American Factory

9/20. 7:15 ish dark psychedelic acoustic blues/klezmer/reggae/soca jamband Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues. 

9/20, 7:30 PM  latin drum maven and West Side Story soundtrack reinventor Bobby Sanabria and band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

9/20 7:30 PM pastoral guitarist duo Charlie Rauh & Cameron Mizell followed by Middle Eastern-inspired guitarist Harvey Valdes solo at Greenwich House Music School, $15 

9/20-21. 7:30 PM eclectic, paradigm-shifting B3 jazz organist Brian Charette and his quartet at Smalls

 9/20. 8 PM Spain and NYC represent with political hardcore and punk: Irreal, Porvenir Oscuro, Pobreza Mental,  Miedo, at Brooklyn Bazaar, $10 

 9/20, 8 PM Changing Modes – NYC’s funnest, most unpredictable, sharply lyrical new wave art-rock band –at Arlene’s, $10

9/20, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by the haphazardly funny Eastern Blokhedz  – who do psychedelic covers of 60s Russian psychedelic pop songs and specialize in the catalog of legendary Polish singer Edita Piaha –at Barbes

9/20, 8 PM drummer Tomas Fujiwara with a typically brilliant edgy lineup: Patricia Brennan on vibraphone, and Tomeka Reid on cello playing the release show for their new suite at Roulette, $18 av tix rec

 9/20, 8 PM no wave laptop percussion legend Ikue Mori remixes Sylvie Courvoisier (piano) and Nate Wooley (trumpet) live at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery ,$20

9/20, 8:30 PM bassist/singer Georgia Weber & the Sleeved Hearts play the album release show for her restless, alternately sparkling and acidic blend of jazz and abstract guitar rock at the basement room at the Rockwood, $12 

9/20, 10 PM bossa-tinged sunshine pop band the Letter Yellow at Pete’s

9/20-21 the Allah-Las at Union Pool are sold out. Duh, wtf were they thinking?

9/21, 1:30 Mara Rosenbloom – synth / Sam Newsome – soprano sax / Andrew Drury – drums; 3:30 Jason Kao Hwang – violin / Anders Nilsson – guitar / TA Thompson – drums; 4:30 Amirtha Kidambi – voice / Mazz Swift – violin at Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St, just east of Essex

 9/21, 2 PM the annual Brooklyn Americana Festival at Pier 6 on the south end of Brooklyn Bridge Park with accordion/guitar duo the Troubadours of Divine Bliss, Irish folk noir innovator Leila Jane, Aussie Kellie Cain, at 5 PM Americana songstress Megan Palmer, at 6 Spirit Family Reunion‘s Maggie Carson, New Orleans blues singer Sabine McCalla and at 7 eclectic newschool Americana harmony trio Underhill Rose 

9/21, 2 PM mysterious Indian-influenced singer Louise Landes Levi at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free 

9/21, 5 PM ish intense, brilliantly relevant oldtime gospel/Africa Africana music maven Vienna Carroll and the irrepresibly theatrical, politically spot-on Ukuladies at the Gowanus Dredgers Society Boathouse, 2nd St. and the canal (past Bond, two blocks south of Smith), free

9/21, 6 PM  amazing, psychedelic instrumentalists Sandcatchers – who blend cinematic, pastoral Americana and Middle Eastern themes – followed at 6 by accordion genius Shoko Nagai ’s haunting, increasingly loud and psychedelic Tokala Silk Road/klezmer mashup project and then at 10  by Frankie Sunswept and the Sunwrays – Rachel Housle on drums, Sean Cronin on bass, Kyle Morgan on vocals and lead guitar, and Frankie Sunswept on vocals, guitar and piano playing psychedelic soul and surf music at Barbes.Sandcatchers are also here on 9/28 at 6 also.

 9/21, 7 PM lustrously eclectic jazz chanteuse Svetlana (of Svetlana & the Delancey 5) sings the album release show for her cinematic new one at Joe’s Pub, $20

9/21, 7:30 PM Sanghamitra Chatterjee – vocal; Dibyarka Chatterjee – tabla; Xander Naylor – guitar at the Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

9/21, 8 PM Music From China with pianist Zhang Fang play works by Bright Sheng, Jian Wantong, Gao Ping, Yao Chen and An-Lun Huang at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25

9/21, 8 PM improvisations to potentially get lost in: guitarist Ryan Ferreira & cellist Clarice Jensen at the Owl

9/21, 8 PM wry, Mose Allison-inspired folksinger Mike Glick followed by Scott Cook – who shifts from traditional front-porch fare to populist originals – at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away

9/21, 9ish punchy noiserockers Big Bliss and

9/21, 9ish punchy noiserockers Big Bliss and Monograms – who do as good a mid-80s Cure impression as any band alive – at the Broadway, the old Gateway space at 1272 Broadway in Bushwick, J to Gates Ave, $tba

9/21, 10 PM the haphazardly funny Eastern Blokhedz  – who do psychedelic covers of 60s Russian pop songs and specialize in the catalog of legendary Polish singer Edita Piaha –at Barbes

 9/21, 11 PM bluegrass/newgrass string band phenoms the Kitchen Dwellers at the Mercury, $15 adv tix rec 

9/22, 11 AM (in the morning) amazing string quintet Sybarite5 – who are also the world’s coolest Radiohead cover band –  at Subculture, $20

9/22, 1:30 Dave Sewelson – baritone sax / William Parker – bass Steve Swell – trombone / Marvin Bugalu Smith – drums; 3:30 Sam Newsome Trio with  Hilliard Greene – bass; Reggie Nicholson – drums; 4:30 Michael Bisio – bass / Kirk Knuffke – cornet / Fred Lonberg-Holm – cello at First St Green, 33 E. 1st St

9/22, 2 PM fiery, female-fronted janglerockers/powerpop band Above the Moon, sunshiney soul band Mojo and the Mayhem, psych soul-funk band Cosmonaut Radio and the gritty catchy, anthemic, female-fronted Grayhunter at Marcus Garvey Park 

9/22, 2 PM the annual Brooklyn Americana Festival at Pier 6 on the south end of Brooklyn Bridge Park with young banjo hotshot Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman, at 3 soul/gospel belter (and Lenny Molotov collaborator) Queen Esther,at 5 red dirt folk band Carli Ray and the Shaky Legs at 6 our own Samoa Wilson with sizzling blues guitarist Michaela Gomez

9/22, 5 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band followed by brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet playing classic salsa grooves  at LIC Bar

9/22, 7:30 PM Elmira Darvarova, violin; Howard Wall, horn; Thomas Weaver, piano play an all-Piazzolla program at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, free tix avail at the box ofc

9/22, 7:30 PM  erudite baritone saxophonist Claire Daly leads her quartet followed by tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonist Dave Gibson leading his quintet at Smalls

9/22, 8 PM sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee & tabla player Ojas Adhiya at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

9/22. 9 PM 90s indie luminaries: Metal Mountains’ Samara Lubelski, abstract rock guitar pioneer Bill Nace and ex-Come and Steve Wynn guitar monster Chris Brokaw at Union Pool, $12

9/22, 9 PM two generations of scruffy, jangly Asian women-fronted bands: Straw Pipes and Shonen Knife at the Knitting Factory, $17 

9/22, 10 PM powerhouse soul belter/bassist Tina & the Balance at the small room at the Rockwood 

9/22, 10 PM cinematic guitarist Pat Irwin and boisterous swing/ska trombonist J. Walter Hawkes at the Treehouse at 2A

 9/22, midnight, haunting, atmospheric noir rock chanteuse Laura Carbone at Baby’s All Right, $15

 9/23, 7:30/9:30 PM playful improviser and ambitous composer/tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock leads a septet with Mazz Swift on violin and Brandon Seabrook on guitar at the Jazz Gallery, $20

9/23, 8 PM dub-inspired psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia band Combo Lula open for Peruvian Amazon psychedelic cumbia legends Los Wembler’s de Iquitos playing the album release show for their new one at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec 

9/23, 10 PM energetic delta blues/Romany swing guitarist Felix Slim at LIC Bar

9/23. 11 PM haunting, fearsomely powerful soul belter and noir Americana songstress Karen Dahlstrom  at Pete’s

9/24, 7 PM brilliant acoustic guitarist and sardonic alt-country songwriting pioneer Robbie Fulks – of Fuck This Town infamy – at the Mercury, $15

9/24, 7 PM ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s new psychedelic tropicalia project CAMPOS followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes, $10

9/24, 7 PM improvised performances by clarinetist Waclaw Zimpel, bassist Ksawery Wójciński, pianist Aga Derlak, along with keyboardist Cat Toren and other special guests at Soup & Sound, 292 Lefferts Ave in Brooklyn

9/24, 7:15 PM Aranyakkord – a funny Romany rock/janglerock spinoff of popular Hungarian band Quimby – at Drom, free

9/24 8 PM haunting flamenco/Sicilian folk chanteus Julia Patinella with mesmerizing oudist  Brian Prunka at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St. at Washington, C to Clinton-Washington

9/24, 8 PM whirlwind, cleverly picturesque alto saxophonist Elijah Shiffer & the Robber Crabs at Scholes St. Studios, $10

 9/24, 8ish Mongolian metal band the Hu at Warsaw, $25 gen adm 

 9/24 9 PM Mongolian psychedelic rockers Hanggai at Littlefield, $20

9/24, 9 PM classic 70s style doom band (some would say Sabbath ripoff) High Reeper at St. Vitus, $10 

9/24, 11:30 PM hilarious, cartoonish London instrumentalists the Proletarians at the big room at the Rockwood 

9/25, 6:30 PM intense alto sax improviser Makoto Kawashima at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown, free 

9/25, 7:30 PM pianist Gaspard Dehaen plays works by Schubert, Chopin and Liszt at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $30

9/25, 8 PM charismatic oldtime hokum blues crooner/guitarist C.W. Stoneking at the Bell House, $15

9/25, 8 PM the Jack Quartet and indie classical chamber group Either/Or perform Anthony Braxton works at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

9/25, 9:30 PM catchy post-Velvets psychedelic band Quicksilver Daydream at Our Wicked Lady, $!0

 9/26, 5 PM the mighty, Middle Eastern-tinged Eyal Vilner Big Band with soul/gospel belter (and Lenny Molotov collaborator) Queen Esther at Metrotech Park in downtown Brooklyn

9/26, 7:30 PM, repeating 9/27-28 at 8 the NY Philharmonic play concert versions of Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Schoenberg’s Erwartung, $35 tix avail

9/26, 7:30 PM paradigm-shifting Middle Eastern/jazz/classical trumpeter Amir ElSaffar joined by an all-Polish band: Ksawery Wójcinski, Waclaw Zimpel, and the Lutoslawski Quartet at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

9/26, 8 PM deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co. at Otto’s

9/26, 8 PM fascinatingly lyrical, individualistic pianist Sylvie Courvoisier with Mary Halvorson on guitar at at the Owl

9/26, 8 PM Sly Horizon – Rick Parker (trombone, electronics, synths), Álvaro Domene (7 string electric guitar and electronics), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums/electronics) – play the album release show for their new one at Arete Gallery, $15

 9/26, 7:30 PM the Israeli Chamber Projectt play music of Central Europe: Dvořák, Martinů, Kurtág, Bruch and Bartók at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

 9/26, 8 PM  deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co at Otto’s

 9/26, 8:30 PM riveting, intense singer Hannah Fairchild’s explosive, lyrically brilliant noir punk power trio Hannah vs. the Many at Sunnyvale, $10

9/26, 8:30 PM Aravind- vocals; Raghul- violin; Vijay Ganesh- mridangam; Chandrasekara Sharma- ghatam play lustrous Indian carnatic themes at the Jalopy, $15

 9/26, 8:30 PM klezmer ripples and pings: flutist Adrianne Greenbaum with nimble tsimblist Pete Rushefsky at Town & Village Social Hall, 334 E 14th St.(between 1st & 2nd Ave.), $15

9/26, 9 PM cleverly eclectic New Orleans-flavored pianist/crooner Nat Osborn at the big room at the Rockwood , $12

9/26.,10 PM drummer Arthur Vint & Associates reinvent classic Morricone spaghetti western soundtracks at Barbes

 9/26, 11:30 PM sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies at the Gutter, $7

9/26 midnight sardonically relevant guitar-fueled female-fronted Americana punks Spanking Charlene at the small room at the Rockwood. WTF you might want to bring earplugs

9/27 2:30 PM the Mannes Orchestra play excerpts from Mendelssohn’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and then Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 at the auditorium at 66 W 12th St., free

 9/27, 6:30ish surprisingly eclectic, pensive parlor pop/acoustic pop songwriter Yaniza Dore at the American Folk Art Museum 

9/27, 7 PM the North American debut of the Gurdjieff Ensemble, an eleven-piece ensemble who play authentic arrangements of music by Gurdjieff and Komitas on Armenian traditional instruments, joined by pianist Lusine Grigoryan at Symphony Space, $35

9/27, 7 PM ambient guitarist and Bowie collaborator Gerry Leonard a.k.a. Spooky Ghost at the basement room at the Rockwood $15

9/27, 7 PM unusually adventurous indie classical ensembles Hotel Elefant play works by Carlos Bandera, Patrick Castillo, Alexandra Gardner, Kaija Saariaho, Sean Harold and Lois Vierk at Arete Gallery, $tba

 9/27-28, 7:30/9:30 PM the wildly shapeshifting  Brooklyn Raga Massive – with Marcus Strickland -reeds; Abhik Mukherjee -sitar play Coltrane classics at the Jazz Gallery, $25

9/27, 8 PM the New York Classical Players perform works by Beethoven & Bartok at Flushing Town Hall, free w/rsvp

 9/27, 8 PM veteran bluegrass hotshots James Reams & the Barnstormers at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $15

9/27 8 PM indie classical chamber goup Talea Ensemble play Alvin Lucier’s Music for Cello and Amplified Glass Vases plus works by Catherine Lamb at the Tenri Institute, $tba

9/27, 9ish ferocious, creepily enveloping, kinetic psychedelic tropicalia band Yotoco at the Owl

9/27, 10 PM the world’s creepiest, slinkiest, most psychedelic crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Barbes

9/27, 10 PM Marisa Michelson & Constellation Chor, who do hypnotic Pauline Oliveros style improvisations at Spectrum, $15

 9/27, 10 PM tight doom metal band Eternal Black and the even slower, slightly more psychedelic Vessel of Light at Lucky 13 Saloon 

9/27. 10:15 PM ferociously dynamic, tuneful, female-fronted power trio Castle Black on the roof at Our Wicked Lady, 153 Morgan Ave, close to the Morgan Ave L stop

9/28, 11 AM the annual chile pepper festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, most likely with bands throughout the day and  New Orleans artists including Walter Wolfman Washington and Irma Thomas starting at 5 PM, $30/$25 stud/srs

9/28, 1:30 Matt Lavelle – trumpet   Daniel Carter – woodwinds / Tom Cabrera – drums;; 3:30 Michael TA Thompson Quartet: TA Thompson – drums / Christopher Dean Sullivan – bassBill Pernice – piano / Lee Odom – clarinet, alto sax, soprano sax; 4:30 Whit Dickey – drums / Brandon Lopez – bass / Rob Brown – alto sax at First St Green, 33 E. 1st St

9/28, 2 PM jazz flutist Nicole Mitchell and band at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free

9/28, 2 PM woodwind ensemble Quintet of the Americas play jazz standards at Langston Hughes Library, 100-01 Northern Blvd., Corona, Queens

9/28, 6 PM a bluegrass extravaganza with the Fabulous Fienberg Brothers * The Wretched Remnants (from the Wretched Refuse) * Tribute to Citizen Kafka * Bob Jones Celebration * Alan Kaufman * Kenny Kosek * Andy Statman * Lonely Street * The Legendary Billy Parker & Bruno Bruzzese * David Howard * Powerhouse Ron Fienberg * Terry McGill * Peter Elegant * The Amazing Harry Bolick & The Mississippi Travelers * Brian Slattery *Charlie Shaw * Jacques DeCroce * Bill Christophersen * Stephanie Coleman * Marty Cutler * ALan Podbar * at Middle School 51 Auditorium, 4th St & 5th Ave – just across the street from the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $15

 9/28, 7 PM Middle Eastern oudist Tom Chess and percussionist Dan Kurfirst back a sufi dance performance led by Lâle Sayoko at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, $25 adv tix rec 

9/28, 7 PM electroacoustic flute/piano/cello trio Arde play works by Conrad Tao and Camila Agosto plus a US premiere by Greek composer Konstantinos Baras at Spectrum, $15

 9/28, 8 PM Syrian crooner Wajde Ayub & Ensemble play soulful Syrian wasla ballads at Roulette, $30 adv tix rec

9/28, 9 PM Andrew Vladeck – whose lyrically-driven songs careen from stark oldtimey tunes to epic, cinematic anthems – at Pete’s

9/28, 10 PM trombonist Vera Kemper’s Blu Cha Cha salsa dura band at Barbes  

9/29, 11 AM (in the morning) the Publiquartet play a classical program TBA at Subculture, $20

9/29, starting at around noon the Atlantic Antic street fair on Atlantic Ave from Hicks St. all the way to 4th Ave. with many bands playing various spots. At noon the NY Arabic Orchestra plays close to Sahadi’s;

9/29, 1:30 Charles Downs – drums / Will Greene – tenor sax; Jonah Rosenberg – keyboard / Henry Fraser – bass; 2:30 L.I.P. – K.J. Holmes – dance / Matt Lavelle – trumpet / Jeremy Carlstedt – drums; 3:30 Jaimie Branch Trio with Luke Stewart – bass / Mike Pride – drums; 4:30 For Roy: “Circulation of Celestial Triangles Leaving Imhotep Facing the East Lewis Barnes – trumpet / Jaimie Branch – trumpet / Ryan Fraiser – trumpet Matt Lavelle – trumpet / Kirk Knuffke – trumpet / Dave Hofstra – tuba Dave Sewelson – baritone sax / TA Thompson – drums / Michael Wimberly – percussion William Parker – composition, bass at First St Green, 33 E. 1st St

9/29, 4 PM the irrepressible, cinematic, comedic Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet at Shaeshifter Lab, free

9/29, 4 PM Richard Mazda – the legendary 80s new wave producer and guitarist – & Local Zeroes at LIC Bar

9/29, 7:30 PM 70s obscene British punk legends the Pork Dukes reunite with their original lineup for their final show at Bowery Electric, $15

9/29, 8 PM Armenian duduk master Harutyun Chkolyan makes his NYC solo debut at Drom, $20 adv tix rec

 9/29, 9 PM guitarslinger Mallory Feuer’s fiery band the Grasping Straws  and stately, ominous female-fronted tropically-tinged psychedelic/artrock band Camp St. Helene playing the album release show for their new one at C’Mon Everybody, $10 

9/30, 8 PM mandolinist Anne Farahani plays works by Bach, Calace, Kuwarhara and others at Arete Gallery, tba

9/30, 10ish  feral singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

9/30, 10 PM hilarious, snack-fixated Quebecois rapper Cheeto Dust at LIC Bar 

10/2,  6:30 PM veteran Japanese free jazz saxophonist Akira Sakata w/ Darin Gray at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown, free

10/3, 7:30 PM wild Palestinian hip-hop/dancehall reggae/habibi pop band 47soul at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/5, 1:30 The Rasslers- Mark Ehrhardt – drums / Chet Mazur – vocals / Tim Mullins – guitar; Nick Romanenko – bass; 3:30 Ava Mendoza – guitar / James Brandon Lewis – tenor sax; Shayna Dulberger – bass / Daniel Carter – woodwinds; 4:30 Welf Dorr Unit – Welf Dorr – alto sax / Keisuke Matsuno – guitar / Dmitry Ishenko – bass at Children’s Magical Garden, 129 Stanton St, just east of Essex

10/7. 6 PM not music-related but scary/important: the opening of photographer Alice Miceli’s Projeto Chernobyl at the Americas Society. “The artist developed a method of image making to document the enduring effects of the Soviet nuclear plant explosion of April 26, 1986. Though gamma radiation continues to be present and to cause health problems and deaths in the area, it is invisible to the naked eye and to traditional methods of photography that have been used to document the region’s ruins. Miceli made this contamination visible via direct contact between the radiation and film, which was exposed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for months at a time.”

10/8, 11 AM (in the morning) catchy, eclectic ska-pop/latin/reggae sounds from the Brown Rice Family at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/9, 6:30 PM adventurous cellist Okkyung Lee at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free

10/10, 7:30 PM Cuban chanteuse Melvis Santa at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/12, 2 PM free jazz brass and reed legend Joe McPhee at the James Cohan Gallery, 48 Walker St in Chinatown,free 

10/17, 7:30 PM the annual celebration of A People’s History of the United States, performers tba, at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/20, 5 PM pianist Evelyne Luest‘s Contrasts Ensemble play trio works of Brahms, Stravinsky, Clara and Khachaturian at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/sr\

10/27, 4 PM fiery and elegant dance and music from Georgia and India: Dancing Crane plus Jiva Dance with dancers: Sonali Skandan, Maya Kappil, Amrita Doshi, -plus a band wih attuvangam – Kiran Rajagopalan; vocals: Vignesh Ravichandran; mridangam: Bala Skandan; violin: Neha Krishnamachary at Manhattan Movement Arts Center, 248 West 60th St, $25/$20 stud/srs

10/29, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, indie classical allstar quintet Counterinduction –  (Miranda Cuckson, violin; Jessica Meyer, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello; Benjamin Fingland, clarinet; Ning Yu, piano) play music of Jessica Meyer at the Miller Theatre, free

11/6, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, TAK Ensemble play works by Ashkan Behzadi ,Erin Gee, Taylor Brook , Tyshawn Sorey and David Bird at the Miller Theatre, free

11/8, 8 PM the world’s darkest, slinkiest, most blackly funny crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy play the album release show for their danceably creepy new one Dear Trouble at the Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd St. in Gowanus with special guests Steven Bernstein on trumpet, Slavic Soul Party’s Peter Hess on saxes and Miramar’s Farfisa sorceress Marlysse Rose Simmons, $20

12/10, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, badass harp virtuoso Bridget Kibbey plays works by Bach, Gershwin, Albeniz and Tschaikovsky at the Miller Theatre, free