Avant Music News

From NYTimes.com:

CLEAN FEED FEST (Friday through Sunday) Organized by the small but vital Portuguese record label Clean Feed, this festival, now in its fifth year, celebrates the exploratory side of modern jazz. Among its more familiar highlights are bands led by the multireedist Marty Ehrlich (Saturday at 9:45 p.m.) and the tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby (Sunday at 10). Among its less familiar highlights is the RED Trio, a free-improvising collective based in Lisbon that just released a self-titled debut; the group will dig in with an American trumpeter, Nate Wooley (Friday at 11). Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 per set, $20 per night. (Chinen)

BILL FRISELL (Tuesday through Thursday) For the first week of his customary two-week Village Vanguard run, Mr. Frisell, a guitarist of panoramic perspective and deep melodic instinct, has been leading a trio with Rudy Royston on drums and Eyvind Kang on violin. They continue performing this weekend. Next week he switches to his 858 Quartet, a chamber ensemble featuring Mr. Kang, the cellist Hank Roberts and the violinist Jenny Scheinman. (Through May 16.) At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com; $25 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

MARY HALVORSON/KEVIN SHEA (Friday) Ms. Halvorson, an engagingly prickly guitarist of increasing prominence, recently expanded her working trio to a quintet, adding the trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson and the alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon; it’s the same group featured on her second album, due out in August. She shares the bill here with a frequent collaborator, the shrewdly antic drummer Mr. Shea, who leads a new group called Lonely Gold Mine of Symbiotic Subterfuge. At 8 p.m., the Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, (212) 255-5793, thekitchen.org; $10. (Chinen)

MISTAKEN INDEMNITY (Wednesday) This new trio — with the guitarist Jonathan Goldberger, the bassist Todd Sickafoose and the drummer Jim Black — takes aim at presumptive roles and conventional expectations, improvising with an upfront collective ideal. At 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope , Brooklyn, (347) 422-0248, barbesbrooklyn.com; $10 cover. (Chinen)