Jazz Listings from the New York Times

From NYTimes.com:

BROOKLYN EXPERIMENTS FREE MUSIC SERIES (Sunday) Natalie John, who performs here at 10:30 p.m., and Becca Stevens, who appears at 9:30, share a connection to Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra, a surging big band with a firm repertory angle. Their own music skews folksier and more interior, mingling jazz improvisation with drifting lyricism. The opener is Trevor Exter, an experimental cellist and vocalist, at 8:30. Rose Live Music, 345 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (718) 599-0069, roselivemusic.com; no cover. (Chinen)

OLIVER LAKE ORGAN QUARTET (Saturday) The incisive alto saxophonist Oliver Lake has a soulful recent album, “Makin’ It” (Passin’ Thru), featuring a trio with Jared Gold on Hammond B3 organ and Johnathan Blake on drums. Here Mr. Lake expands to a quartet, enlisting Mr. Gold, along with the trumpeter Freddie Hendrix and the drummer Chris Beck. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $20, $10 for members. (Chinen)

PAT METHENY (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Metheny, the virtuoso guitarist and composer, recently realized his childhood ambition to work with a precisely controlled mechanical orchestra, combining 19th-century concepts with 21st-century technology. “Orchestrion” (Nonesuch) was the resulting album, and he has been on tour with the contraption since early February. So these two dates propose a homecoming, a culmination and, for portions of his New York fan base, a chance for minds to be blown. At 8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street, Manhattan, (212) 840-2824, the-townhall-nyc.org; $50 to $85. (Chinen)

NATE WOOLEY QUINTET (Monday) A trumpeter well versed in textural abstraction, Nate Wooley leads a working band with Matt Moran on vibraphone, Josh Sinton on bass clarinet, Eivind Opsvik on bass and Harris Eisenstadt on drums. The group will draw from a body of work Mr. Wooley calls “Hands Together,” inspired by the female influences in his life. At 8 and 9:30 p.m., Douglass Street Music Collective, 295 Douglass Street, near Third Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn, myspace.com/295douglass; $10 suggested donation. (Chinen)

WORDS AND MUSIC (Tuesday) The words in this venture, first tried here a couple of years ago, will be delivered by Robert Pinsky, a former poet laureate of the United States; the music is up to the pianist Vijay Iyer, the bassist Ben Allison and the drummer Matt Wilson. Given Mr. Pinsky’s jazz affinities and Mr. Iyer’s experience with the spoken word, the results should be something other than two disciplines peering at each other over a divide. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $20. (Chinen)