Jazz Listings From The New York Times

From NYTimes.com:

Muhal Richard Abrams (Friday) The pianist-composer Muhal Richard Abrams is best known today as the patriarch of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, formed in Chicago in 1965. A New Yorker for a good long while now, he kicks off that organization’s fall series with a concert in two parts, performing a solo piano recital and a quartet set with the trumpeter Jack Walrath, the vibraphonist Bryan Carrott and the bassist Brad Jones. At 8 p.m., Community Church of New York, 40 East 35th Street, Manhattan, aacm-newyork.com; $30, $15 for students. (Nate Chinen)

The Bad Plus (Tuesday and Wednesday) “Made Possible,” the self-released new album by this rough-and-ready trio, changes the script just slightly, adding synthesizers and electronics to what had previously been a strict palette of piano (Ethan Iverson), bass (Reid Anderson) and drums (David King). The effect is noticeable, but hardly transformative: the band’s rapport, on a series of compact but questing original tunes, feels as immersive and hard-fought as ever. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, Lower East Side, mercuryloungenyc.com; $25. At 9 p.m. (doors open at 8 p.m.) on Wednesday at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North Sixth Street, Brooklyn, musichallofwilliamsburg.com; $25. (Chinen)

Jim Black Group (Thursday) Jim Black is known as a drummer of convulsive intensity and a bandleader rooted in the protocols of noise-rock. But on “Somatic” (Winter & Winter), his most recent album, he leads an acoustic trio featuring the young Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder and the American bassist Thomas Morgan. Mr. Black reinvestigates that material here, in conjunction with a workshop led by the alto saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman. At 8 p.m., ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, shapeshifterlab.com; $15. (Chinen)

Coltrane Revisited (Friday and Saturday) In advance of what would have been John Coltrane’s 86th birthday, the pianist Steve Kuhn — one of Coltrane’s sidemen, however briefly — assembles a smart and respectful cast. Filling the saxophone seat is Eric Alexander; on trumpet, in a welcome twist, is Tom Harrell. The rhythm section consists of Lonnie Plaxico on bass and Andrew Cyrille on drums. 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)

Festival of New Trumpet Music (through Oct. 7) Now in its 10th annual season, this festival rolls on this Friday with TILT Brass, performing music by Dave Ballou, Nate Wooley and Louis Andreissen at University Settlement. Natsuki Tamura and Josh Deutsch work in solo and duo formats at the Village Zendo on Sunday; on Wednesday and Thursday the action shifts to Smalls for a series organized by Jeremy Pelt, with bands led by Jean Caze, Jon Crowley, John Raymond, David Weiss and others. A full schedule is at fontmusic.org. Friday at 8 p.m., University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street, at Rivington Street, Lower East Side, universitysettlement.org; $15, $10 for students. Sunday at 7 p.m., the Village Zendo, 588 Broadway, Suite 1108, at Houston, villagezendo.org; $20 suggested donation. Wednesday and Thursday at Smalls, 183 West 10th Street, West Village, (212) 252-5091, smallsjazzclub.com; $20 cover. (Chinen)

Henry Grimes Trio (Thursday) Mr. Grimes, a long-lost, load-bearing pillar of the 1960s avant-garde, plays bass and violin and reads poetry in this trio, featuring the veteran free-jazz pianist Dave Burrell and the brilliantly dynamic young drummer Tyshawn Sorey. The group plays one set, at 8 p.m., and a solo set, with the pianist Anthony Coleman, follows at 10 p.m. At the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, thestonenyc.com; $20 for the first set, $10 for the 10 p.m. show. (Chinen)

Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project (Friday and Saturday) The pianist-composer Vijay Iyer and the poet-performer Mike Ladd have collaborated on large-scale sociopolitical works before, with sharp results. For “Holding It Down” — a reflection on the dreamscapes of American war veterans, commissioned by Harlem Stage’s WaterWorks program — they further enlisted the poets Maurice Decaul and Lynn Hill, veterans of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. In its premiere, the work will feature those contributors alongside Guillermo Brown and Latasha Nevada Diggs on vocals and electronics, Okkyung Lee on cello, Kassa Overall on drums and Liberty Ellman on guitar. At 7:30 p.m., Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 150 Convent Avenue, at 135th Street, Hamilton Heights, (212) 281-9250, harlemstage.org; $30, $24 for HarlemStage members. (Chinen)

Tony Malaby’s Novela (Sunday) The tenor saxophonist Tony Malaby has a burly but beseeching tone, and in his own bands he often pushes toward an amiable ruckus. For this performance, part of the Sound It Out series, he leads Novela, a richly textured nonet featuring collaborators like Ralph Alessi on trumpet, Dan Peck on tuba and Ben Gerstein on trombone; the compositions are all Mr. Malaby’s, and the arrangements are by Kris Davis, the pianist in the group. At 8 p.m., Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow Street, West Village, (212) 242-4770, tonymalaby.net, greenwichhouse.org ; $20, $15 students. (Chinen)

Paradoxical Frog (Saturday) “Union” is a fitting title for the second album by this fearless experimental trio, released this week on Clean Feed. The ensemble, which interrogates compositions by all three members — the pianist Kris Davis, the saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey — shoulders its collectivity as a useful challenge. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $20 cover, $10 for members. (Chinen)