From NYTimes.com:
Tim Berne Seven / Fourth Floor (Saturday) Mr. Berne, the aggressively momentum-driven alto saxophonist and composer, has been embracing more chamber-music protocols, as he seems more than likely to do in this engagement. His seven-piece ensemble, performing for the first time at 9 p.m., includes all the musicians in his excellent, texture-rich working band — the multireedist Oscar Noriega, the pianist Matt Mitchell and the drummer Ches Smith — along with Ryan Ferreira on guitar, Michael Formanek on bass and Dan Weiss on drums and percussion. An earlier set, at 8, will feature Fourth Floor, a duo of Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Weiss. At ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, shapeshifterlab.com; $15. (Chinen)
Bizingas & Friends (Tuesday) Bizingas is a canny jazz-rock band led by the trombonist Brian Drye, with the cornetist Kirk Knuffke, the guitarist Jonathan Goldberger and, on this evening, the drummer Jason Nazary. As is the case every Tuesday this month, the group plays a single set (at 9 p.m.) alongside two other bands. Next week those other bands are Trio Blastphemy (8 p.m.), with Marcus Rojas on tuba, Ben Holmes on trumpet and Curtis Hasselbring on trombone, and Happy Pappy (10 p.m.), with Mr. Rojas, Eli Rojas on drums, Petr Cancura on saxophone and mandolin, and Brandon Seabrook on banjo and guitar. At I Beam, 168 Seventh Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn, ibeambrooklyn.com; $10 suggested donation. (Chinen)
Ellery Eskelin Trio (Saturday) Ellery Eskelin is a tenor saxophonist drawn to rhythmic tumult and tonal friction, qualities he should have no problem fostering with this trio, featuring John Hébert on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on drums. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
Mostly Other People Do the Killing (Thursday) This impudent but wickedly proficient free-bop quartet — led by the bassist Moppa Elliott, with Peter Evans on trumpet, Jon Irabagon on saxophones and Kevin Shea on drums — has a vital recent double album, “The Coimbra Concert” (Clean Feed), which should give some indication of the controlled chaos most likely to transpire here. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
John O’Gallagher’s Anton Webern Project (Wednesday) Mr. O’Gallagher, an alto saxophonist, looks here to an unusual source of inspiration, at least by jazz-repertory standards. The results should be fascinating, not least because of his crew: the guitarist Pete McCann, the vibraphonist Matt Moran, the pianist Russ Lossing, the bassist Aidan O’donnell and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey. From 9 to 11:30 p.m., Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212) 252-5091, smallsjazzclub.com; $20 cover. (Chinen)
Trio 3 Featuring Jason Moran (Friday and Saturday) The alto saxophonist Oliver Lake, the bassist Reggie Workman and the drummer Andrew Cyrille hail from the same broad-minded jazz generation, and share an agenda of rugged epiphany. Trio 3 is the name of their superhero collective, which has occasionally expanded its ranks to include Geri Allen on piano. Here, the group teams up with Mr. Moran, a younger pianist who has smartly claimed the lessons of his forbears as both an inheritance and a continuing challenge. At 8:30 and 11 p.m., Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, Clinton, (212) 581-3080, birdlandjazz.com; $30 and $40 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
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