Pianist Brad Mehldau and his trio—bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Marcus Gilmore—continue their sold-out residency at the Village Vanguard in New York City with early and late sets tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun, a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith, was released last year and features performances by singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassists Felix Moseholm and John Davis, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman; you can get it on vinyl and CD and hear it here.

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Composer John Adams conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic and pianist Conrad Tao at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday and Sunday. The program includes Adams’s Century Rolls and selections from his arrangement of Piazzolla’s Three Tangos, along with works by Stravinsky and Prokofiev. Meanwhile, in Italy, Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer, conducted by Lawrence Renes and directed by Luca Guadagnino, is given the final performance of its Florence premiere at Teatro del Maggio on Sunday. The opera’s premiere recording, featuring the Opéra de Lyon and conductor Kent Nagano, was released on Nonesuch in 1991. Both Century Rolls and The Death of Klinghoffer are included in the 40-disc box set John Adams Collected Works from 2022.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk and bassoonist William May join Colburn School faculty and students for a performance at Colburn’s Thayer Hall in Los Angeles on Sunday. The program includes works by Mozart, Valerie Coleman, and Elgar. Before the concert, Denk hosts a piano masterclass on Friday and a chamber masterclass on Saturday at Thayer Hall.

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Rhiannon Giddens is in Louisiana, performing at the Scène Lus Internationale Stage in downtown Lafayette tonight for the Festival International de Louisiane and in the Blues Tent at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans on Saturday for New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. She then heads to her home state of North Carolina to perform at The Fruit in Durham on Sunday for the Biscuits & Banjos day of free programming. The programming marks the one-year anniversary of Giddens’s inaugural Biscuits & Banjos festival, which honored the deep roots and enduring legacy of Black music, art, and storytelling with a lineup of concerts, workshops, square dances, panel discussions, free banjo lessons, and a biscuit bake-off.

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Gabriel Kahane and Roomful of Teeth perform Elevator Songs at Constellation in Chicago tonight and Sid the Cat Auditorium in South Pasadena, California, on Sunday.

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Kronos Quartet performs at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City on Saturday and at Groton Hill Music Center in Groton, Massachusetts, on Sunday. Sunday’s concert celebrates this year’s 90th birthday of composer Steve Reich with a Reich-inspired program featuring Different Trains and Triple Quartet, plus works by Laurie Anderson, Jlin, Elisa Harkins, Aleksandra Vrebalov, John Oswald, Viet Cuong, and Trevor Weston.

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Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven, whose new two-disc, four-EP compilation, Off the Record, was released last year, continues his US tour in New England, performing at Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Saturday, and Higher Ground in Burlington, Vermont, on Sunday.

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Guitarist Jeff Parker is at Vidiots in Los Angeles on Sunday for two screenings of Happy Today, each followed by a live conversation. Directed by Charlie Weinmann, the concert film documents the August 20, 2025, performance by Parker and his ETA IVtet—drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Anna Butterss, and saxophonist Josh Johnson—at the Lodge Room in Highland Park. The album Happy Today is due May 15 on International Anthem/Nonesuch Records. A full list of screenings through May, including Portland, Brooklyn, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Tokyo, and Porto, can be found here.

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Molly Tuttle brings music from her album So Long Little Miss Sunshine and more to the Watson Stage at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, tonight for MerleFest, and to Miramar Beach, Florida, on Saturday for Sun, Sand, and Soul Festival.