Source: Jazz Listings for July 22-28 – The New York Times.
Cyro Baptista (Friday through Sunday) Mr. Baptista, an irrepressibly kinetic percussionist originally from São Paulo, Brazil, leads two distinct projects this weekend, presenting them one after the other each night. His 7:30 p.m. sets will revisit “Vira Loucos,” a 1997 album on which he interprets the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos. (That title, in addition to playing on the composer’s name, could be translated as “Behold the Insanity.”) The 9:30 sets will feature Mr. Baptista’s band Banquet of the Spirits, playing original material as well as tunes by Don Cherry and John Zorn, representing two generations of the jazz avant-garde. 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/dizzys. (Nate Chinen)
Stephan Crump, Kris Davis, Eric McPherson (Friday and Saturday) They travel in overlapping circles — Mr. Crump, a bassist; Ms. Davis, a pianist; and Mr. McPherson, a drummer — but they haven’t joined forces as a trio until now. What they all have in common is a willingness to push beyond known parameters, while keeping a loose tether on compositional form. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, 212-989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com. (Chinen)
William Parker (Tuesday and Wednesday) Mr. Parker, an avant-garde bassist whose sound and purpose both ring of bedrock, presents all new music in this two-night booking at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, a more formal setting than usual for him. On Tuesday he’ll lead his Cosmic Mountain Quintet, a promising group with the saxophonists Kidd Jordan, Rob Brown and James Brandon Lewis; the pianist Cooper-Moore; and the drummer Hamid Drake. On Wednesday he’ll present his In Order to Survive Extended Breathe Ensemble, featuring the same three saxophonists, along with the pianist Dave Burrell, the trombonist Steve Swell, and the multi-instrumentalists Lee Rozie (known as Mixashawn) and Daniel Carter. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, 212-258-9595, jazz.org. (Chinen)
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