Jazz Listings From The New York Times

From NYTimes.com:

Darcy James Argue and Secret Society (Saturday) A composer who understands the grainy particulars behind a sweeping gesture, Mr. Argue has been gaining momentum over the last few years with the Secret Society, his flagship orchestra. Ten days before the release of the group’s second album — “Brooklyn Babylon” (New Amsterdam), a distillation of his recent work for the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — Mr. Argue and crew return there to perform under more casual conditions. At 10 p.m., BAMcafé, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100, bam.org; free. (Nate Chinen)

Claudia Quintet (Friday and Saturday) This precisely calibrated but willfully spontaneous chamber-jazz group led by John Hollenbeck, a drummer and composer, makes the layering of timbre a suspenseful event. The ensemble — now with Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clarinet, Matt Moran on vibraphone, Red Wierenga on accordion and Chris Tordini on bass — will be playing new music intended for a forthcoming album. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $20 cover, includes a drink. (Chinen)

Steve Coleman and Five Elements (Tuesday through April 28) “Functional Arrhythmias” (Pi Recordings) is the engrossing new album from Mr. Coleman, a fiercely independent alto saxophonist and composer, featuring a revamped edition of his working band. It seems likely to provide some fodder for his residency next week at the Stone, with a different arrangement of collaborators in each set. Among them are the trumpeters Jonathan Finlayson, Graham Haynes and Shane Endsley; the guitarists David Gilmore and Miles Okazaki; and his funk-adept rhythm team from the album, the drummer Sean Rickman and the electric bassist Anthony Tidd. At 8 and 10 p.m., The Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, thestonenyc.com; $15 or $20 for each set. (Chinen)

Peter Evans’s Zebulon Trio (Wednesday) Peter Evans, a trumpeter with an expressive command of timbre and texture, named this trio — with John Hébert on bass and Kassa Overall on drums — after the sorely missed club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where it recorded an album last year. The album, “Zebulon,” is now out on Mr. Evans’s own More Is More Records, and provides a loose framework of expectation here. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $20 cover, includes a drink. (Chinen)

Mat Maneri Trio (Thursday) Mat Maneri is a violist with an elastic approach to pulse and pitch; in this trio, he has intuitive support from Ed Schuller on bass and Randy Peterson on drums. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $20 cover, includes a drink. (Chinen)

Tri-Centric Orchestra (Sunday) Established by the visionary composer Anthony Braxton, the Tri-Centric Orchestra is a new-music outfit stocked with keen improvisers like the saxophonist Josh Sinton and Taylor Ho Bynum, playing the cornet and fluegelhorn here. This concert, which will not involve Mr. Braxton, features the premieres of three ensemble commissions: “When Life’s Door Opens,” by the flutist Nicole Mitchell; “Shifting Shorelines, Within and Without,” by the violinist Jason Kao Hwang; and “Dark Flow,” by the accordionist Kamala Sankaram. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 509 Atlantic Avenue, near Third Avenue, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, (917) 267-0363, roulette.org; $15, $10 for members. (Chinen)