From NYTimes.com:
Tim Berne’s Big Satan (Friday) Mr. Berne, a vigorous and exploratory saxophonist and composer, makes free-form interplay the driving force in this trio with the guitarist Marc Ducret and the drummer Tom Rainey. The group is newly reunited after an uncertain hiatus: this concert, part of the Sound It Out series, is said to be its first New York gig in a decade. At 8 p.m., Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, (212) 242-4770, greenwichhouse.org; $20, $10 students. (Chinen)
Anthony Braxton (Thursday) Last year around this time, Mr. Braxton, the irrepressible avant-garde composer and multireedist, presided over a four-day festival of his music at Roulette, featuring a wide range of pieces and ensembles. He returns next week for just one night, with only two groups: his quartet, which includes Dan Blacksberg on trombone and euphonium, Ken Filiano on bass and Mike Szekely on percussion; and his Diamond Curtain Wall Music Ensemble, with Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, Josh Sinton on baritone saxophone and bass clarinet, Maura Valenti on harp, and five vocalists. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, at Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn; (917) 267-0363, roulette.org; $25 in advance, $30 at the door; $20 in advance, $25 at the door for members, students and 65+. (Chinen)
Festival of New Trumpet Music (Saturday and Thursday, through Oct. 7) Now in its 10th season, this accurately named annual smorgasbord kicks off on Saturday evening with a free site-specific performance at Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park: “Rotations, Rotations,” composed and conducted by Stephanie Richards, features a brass and percussion ensemble interacting, both in movement and sound, with the carousel’s jubilant twirl. The festival picks up again on Thursday at the Jazz Gallery with Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble, presenting a premiere of its own, “The Bright and Rushing World: Suite for Five Musicians.” A full schedule is at fontmusic.org. Saturday from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Brooklyn Bridge Park, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, Dumbo; free. Thursday at 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $15 cover, $10 for members in the first set; $10 cover, $5 for members in the second set. (Chinen)
Henry Grimes-Roberto Pettinato Quartet (Friday) Mr. Grimes, a bassist, violinist and long-lost pillar of the 1960s avant-garde, recently made an album with the Argentine saxophonist Roberto Pettinato — better known in his homeland as a journalist and television personality — and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey. The same personnel reconvenes here with the vital addition of Dave Burrell, a fearsome pianist with whom Mr. Grimes recorded back in the day. At 9 p.m., Somethin’ Jazz Club, 212 East 52nd Street, third floor, Manhattan, (212) 371-7657, somethinjazz.com/ny; $20 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)
Mary Halvorson Septet (Friday) The guitarist Mary Halvorson has gradually been expanding her palette as a bandleader-composer: her first album on Firehouse 12 featured a trio, and her second and third involved a quintet. The ensemble performing brand-new music here includes all the members of the quintet — Ms. Halvorson, the trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, the saxophonist Jon Irabagon, the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Ches Smith — along with Jacob Garchik on trombone and Ingrid Laubrock on tenor saxophone. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, roulette.org; $15, $10 for members, students and 65+ ($5 discount for advance online purchase). (Chinen)
Mark Helias’s Open Loose (Sunday) Mark Helias is a bassist equally committed to the causes of momentum and texture, and in that sense he has a very good thing in Open Loose, a band with Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone and Tom Rainey on drums. The group appears as part of the Sound It Out series. At 8 p.m., Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, (212) 242-4770, greenwichhouse.org; $15, $10 for students and 65+. (Chinen)
Oliver Lake Organ Quartet (Thursday) 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. Here Mr. Lake expands to a quartet, enlisting Mr. Gold along with the trumpeter Freddie Hendrix and the drummer Chris Beck. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $25. (Chinen)
Tony Malaby Paloma Trio (Saturday) Paloma Recio, a vigorous working quartet led by the tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby, explores shadowy post-bop terrain with the subtlest of Spanish accents. The band is usually a quartet with the guitarist Ben Monder, the bassist Eivind Opsvik and the drummer Nasheet Waits; Mr. Opsvik won’t be on hand for this one-nighter. 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)
Tarbaby (Tuesday) A collective rooted in its own brand of forward-thinking traditionalism, Tarbaby features musicians of smartly combustible temperament: the pianist Orrin Evans, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Nasheet Waits. At 10 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; $15. (Chinen)
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