Avant Music News

This October, Chicago-based drummer/composer Tim Daisy and his unusual chamber-jazz trio Vox Arcana will tour the Southeastern U.S. in support of its latest release, Aerial Age (Allos Documents). The five-city tour begins October 7th at Fluorescent Gallery in Knoxville, Tennessee, followed by stops at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina (10/08), Watershed Arts Alliance in Somerset, Kentucky (10/10), Gumbo Ya Ya in Lexington, Kentucky (10/10) and Thomas More College in Covington, Kentucky (10/11).

Evolving Voice & Music (Monday) This weekly avant-garde series features four different ensembles, performing roughly on the hour, starting at 7 p.m. with a free improvisation by the vocalists Jen Shyu and Lorin Benedict and the multireedist Oscar Noriega. Ms. Benedict stays on at 8 for a duo set with the guitarist Eric Vogler. (They’re calling themselves Bleeding Vector.) At 9 the baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton leads his fine band Ideal Bread, a quartet devoted to the music of Steve Lacy; wrapping things up at 10 is the Joachim Badenhorst Trio, featuring Mr. Badenhorst on reeds, Steve Swell on trombone and Ziv Ravitz on drums. The Local 269, 269 East Houston Street, at Suffolk Street, Lower East Side , thelocal269.com; myspace.com/rucmanyc; $10 per set, $15 for two sets, $20 for the night; students get $3 off. (Chinen)

Paul Motian, Mark Turner, Tony Malaby, Bill Frisell (Friday through Sunday) One of the great rites of summer in New York is the annual two-week Village Vanguard engagement by Mr. Motian, a slippery drummer; Mr. Frisell, a shadowy guitarist; and Joe Lovano, a gruff-meets-gentle tenor saxophonist. This year there’s a wrinkle: that all-star trio will headline at the club next week (starting Tuesday), but first comes this less familiar aggregation. Like Mr. Lovano, Mr. Malaby and Mr. Turner are tenor and soprano saxophonists, but each has his own irrefutable style, respectively suggesting earth and air. 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 one-drink minimum. (Chinen)

Tue 09/07 7:00pm
JENNY SCHEINMAN
Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman works with a variety of performers including Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux and Jimmy Dale Gilmore. When she is not touring the world, she can be found here most Tuesdays with an almost infinite variety of lineup. After an abscence of two months, Jenny is back with Mary Halvorson & Ches Smith.

Fri 09/17 7:30pm
WILLIAM PARKER & COOPER-MOORE DUO. $10

Tue 09/28 7:00pm
JENNY SCHEINMAN
Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman works with a variety of performers including Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux and Jimmy Dale Gilmore. When she is not touring the world, she can be found here most Tuesdays with an almost infinite variety of lineup.

Thu 9/30 10:00pm
MARY HALVORSON QUINTET
Record release concert for the quintet’s debut album, Saturn Sings, on Firehouse 12 Records. The success of her acclaimed 2008 debut, Dragon’s Head (Firehouse 12 Records), led critics to call Ms. Halvorson “probably the most original jazz guitarist to emerge this decade” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader). With Jon Irabagon- saxophone; Kirk Knuffke- cornet; Mary Halvorson- guitar; John Hebert- bass and Ches Smith- drums. $10