Saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Brian Blade reunite at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, on Sunday for Newport Jazz Festival. The quartet performs pieces from their three albums—their 1994 debut, MoodSwing, and its acclaimed recent follow-ups, 2020's RoundAgain and 2022's LongGone. That latest album received a Grammy Award nomination and was recently nominated for the Edison Jazz Award in the Netherlands in the Jazz International Instrumental category.

“Musical soulmates reunite to stunning effect,” exclaimed the Guardian, naming LongGone its Jazz Album of the Month. “Musicians with a scary level of talent playing into the moment,” says the New York Times. “The blend of outside influences into a consensual jazz language, the polyrhythmic play, the scholarly bravado: All those things felt fresh for these musicians in the 1990s ... There’s something undeniable—consoling, even—about hearing them remain true to it today.”

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Pianist Jeremy Denk is in England to perform Bach’s Partitas Nos. 1–6 at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, High Street in Oxford on Saturday as part of the Oxford Piano Festival. The concert is also being streamed live via the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra YouTube channel. Denk performs Bach on his 2019 album, c. 1300–c. 2000; his recording of the Goldberg Variations turns ten next month.

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Kronos Quartet is at Santa Cruz Auditorium in California on Sunday, returning to Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, where Sarah Kirkland Snider is a composer-in-residence, with a program of works composed for its 50 for the Future commissioning project, as well as Sofia Gubaidulina’s Quartet No. 4; Laurie Anderson’s “Flow,” from her 2010 album, Homeland; and Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.

Snider joins fellow composers-in-residence Sebastian Currier, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Peter Shin, Carlos Simon, and Bora Yoon for a panel discussion and Q&A, moderated by the festival’s Music Director and Conductor Cristian Măcelaru, at the auditorium on Saturday.

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Rachael & Vilray—the duo of Lake Street Dive singer/songwriter Rachael Price and composer, singer, and guitarist Vilray—bring music from their second studio album, I Love a Love Song!, released earlier this year, and their 2019 self-titled debut album to Ridgefield Playhouse in Connecticut tonight and Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Long Island on Sunday. “I Love a Love Song! is a truly lovely album, front to back,” says No Depression. “More than anything, it’s two accomplished solo performers coming together with a mutual respect and love of musical standards with the goal of responding in kind.”

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and a 13-piece orchestra conducted by Darcy James Argue bring Ogresse—her ambitious long-form musical fable arranged by Argue—to Scotland for the Edinburgh International Festival on Saturday. Ogresse is based on oral fairy tales from the nineteenth century that explore the nature of freedom and desire in a racialized, patriarchal world. Salvant, who was named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll last month, "has already far transcended her early status as her generation's most imaginative and thrilling jazz interpreter," says SPIN, in naming her new album, Mélusine, one of The Best Albums of 2023 (So Far).

Darcy James Argue and his ensemble Secret Society make their Nonesuch debut with the release of Dynamic Maximum Tension on September 8. The album pays homage to some of Argue’s key influences, including Mae West, on the track for whom Salvant performs. You can watch the ensemble perform the track “Dymaxion”—Buckminster Fuller’s portmanteau for “dynamic maximum tension”—here.

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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway bring music from their critically acclaimed new album, City of Gold, released last month on Nonesuch, to Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys in Stateline, Nevada, tonight, as special guests of Dierks Bentley. “With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle continues her ascent,” writes PopMatters, declaring it “one of the year's best albums.” American Songwriter, in its four-star review, calls the album an “astute blend of bluegrass and Americana ... this 'City of Gold' shines bright indeed.” “A vibrant blend of bluegrass with flashes of Old West, anchored by Tuttle's earthy-yet-angelic vocal and the entire group's ace musicianship,” says Billboard. Glide calls it “bluegrass at its vibrant best.”

Tuttle, The Bluegrass Situation Artist of the Month for July, returned to its Basic Folk podcast, hosted by Cindy Howes and Lizzie No, last week, to talk about the new album. You can hear their conversation here.