From NYTimes.com:
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil/Russ Lossing Quartet (Tuesday) Mr. Berne, an alto saxophonist and composer of granite conviction, has had a superb recent outlet in Snakeoil, a chamber-improv quartet with the clarinetist Oscar Noriega, the pianist Matt Mitchell and the drummer Ches Smith. The group plays a 10:30 p.m. set in the Konceptions series; an earlier set, at 9 p.m., will feature a quartet led by the perceptive pianist Russ Lossing, with Adam Kolker on saxophone, Masa Kamaguchi on bass and Billy Mintz on drums. Korzo, 667 Fifth Avenue, at 20th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, konceptionsmusicseries.wordpress.com. (Chinen)
Jon Irabagon Trio (Saturday) Jon Irabagon, a saxophonist of frisky temperament and formidable technique, has long been heard to strong effect in a trio format; his partners in this one are the bassist Yasushi Nakamura and the drummer Rudy Royston. At 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 p.m., Bar Next Door, 129 Macdougal Street, near West Third Street, Greenwich Village, 212-529-5945, lalanternacaffe.com. (Chinen)
★ Jazz & Colors: The Masterworks Edition (Friday) This festival, which has twice presented a bounty of jazz ensembles at picturesque locations all over Central Park, is moving indoors this year, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the 15 groups performing simultaneously, at locations throughout the museum’s galleries, are the Don Byron Quartet; the Amir ElSaffar Quintet; the Matt Mitchell-Ches Smith Duo; Ben Williams and Sound Effect; and Jenny Scheinman’s In the Museum, a special-edition quartet featuring the guitarist Marc Ribot. Each group will tackle the same set list, with jazz standards including Lee Morgan’s “The Sidewinder” and Cole Porter’s “Night and Day.” At 6 and 7:30 p.m., 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org; free with museum admission. (Chinen)
Matana Roberts ‘Coin Coin’ (Tuesday) Ms. Roberts, an alto saxophonist and composer, has devoted herself to a corpus of work she calls “Coin Coin,” sifting through layers of folklore, family history and reconstructed memory in search of one or another form of revelation. She performs her third installment — “river run thee,” due out as an album on Tuesday — in this show, which also includes sets by Rain Machine, the solo electronic project of Kyp Malone, and the collaborative noise trio of Ryan Sawyer, Nate Wooley and C. Spencer Yeh. At 9 p.m., Union Pool, 484 Union Avenue, at Meeker Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-609-0484, union-pool.com. (Chinen)
Pharoah Sanders (through Sunday) The tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, one of the most significant survivors of 1960s free jazz, has never stopped imbuing his performances with the tone of a spiritual quest. He leads a quartet with William Henderson on piano, Nat Reeves on bass and Joe Farnsworth on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jazz.org. (Chinen)
Sun Ra Arkestra (Saturday) Led by the irrepressible alto saxophonist Marshall Allen, who is 90, this repertory outfit carries on the cosmic avant-gardism of its namesake with all necessary gusto. The band plays two sets beginning at 7 p.m. at Sugarcube, the pop-up space at South Street Seaport, courtesy of the Brooklyn avant-garde label Northern Spy. At 7 p.m., Sugarcube at South Street Seaport, Fulton and Front Streets, Lower Manhattan, 212-732-7678, sugarcube.nyc; free, but online registration is required. (Chinen)
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