Guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson, whose new album, About Ghosts, is out today, is joined by drummer Tomas Fujiwara for a performance at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn tonight—a double bill with Bill Frisell and Skuli Sverrisson for the opening night of the New York Guitar Festival. Halvorson is joined by Fujiwara on the album as well along with the rest of her Amaryllis sextet: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). “A kaleidoscopic blend of angular rhythms, intricate melodies and thrilling improvisations,” the Guardian says of About Ghosts, its Jazz Album of the Month. “Powerful melodies and inviting harmonies always drift below even the stormiest surface, giving the much-lauded New York composer and guitarist an appeal way beyond the avant garde.” You can get the album on vinyl and CD and hear it here.

Also in New York City, composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue and his Secret Society ensemble celebrate their 20th anniversary at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan with four sets of big band music: two tonight and two on Saturday. Each set features music from throughout their career, including selections from their acclaimed Nonesuch debut album, Dynamic Maximum Tension, from 2023.

Just a few blocks uptown, Kronos Quartet performs at the Kaufman Music Center tonight as part of the Next Festival of Emerging Artists. The evening is a celebration of composer Terry Riley’s 90th birthday, featuring an early-career string orchestra led by the festival’s founder and artistic director Peter Askin. The program includes The Sands, which Riley wrote for Kronos, and a number of world premieres .

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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire helps to close out the final day of the San Francisco Jazz Festival in a performance with pianist Sullivan Fortner in the SFJAZZ Center’s Miner Auditorium on Sunday. Akinmusire recently won the JJA Jazz Award for Trumpeter of the Year, which he also won last year, and Fortner won the award for Duo of the Year for his work with Cécile McLorin Salvant.

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Timo Andres joins nine fellow pianists from around the world to perform Philip Glass’s Complete Piano Etudes in the Elbphiharmonie’s Grand Hall in Hamburg, tonight.

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Tyondai Braxton is joined by fellow composer and artist Ben Vida to close out the Seventh Stanine Festival at Rhizome in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Braxton’s Nonesuch debut album, HIVE1, recently celebrated its tenth anniversary.

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Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson have brought the tour in support of their new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, to California, performing at the Uptown Theatre in Napa on Saturday. The concerts continue in the state all week, including a special show with guest performers Steve Martin, Ed Helms, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah, and more at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday. You can get the new album here and watch performance videos of eight tunes from it here.

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Emmylou Harris celebrates the recent induction of her groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame and its 30th anniversary with a performance of songs from the album at City Winery in Nashville. She is joined by Wrecking Ball producer Daniel Lanois and engineer Malcoln Burn, both of whom performed on the album as well, for the special Woofstock at the Winery concert to benefit Harris's dog rescue nonprofit, Bonaparte’s Retreat.

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Pianist Brad Mehldau joins the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for a performance of his piano concert at Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin on Saturday. His new album, Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—is due August 29. Performance videos of two album tracks, “Tomorrow Tomorrow” and “Better Be Quiet Now,” can be seen here; the album is available for pre-order here. You can hear the story behind the project in a new video on the making of the album released this week here.

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Punch Brothers continue their spring tour, stopping at the Pageant in St. Louis on Saturday and at The Hall in Little Rock on Sunday. Season one of their show The Energy Curfew Music Hour is currently available on Audible and all podcasting platforms, and the season two live taping concluded in April.

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Molly Tuttle performs at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, for the All Good Now festival on Saturday. Tuttle is fresh-off the release of her single “That’s Gonna Leave a Mark,” the video for which you can watch here, and the announcement of her album, “So Long Little Miss Sunshine,” which you can pre-order here. All Good Now is one of many festivals that Tuttle will perform at this summer, before launching her The Highway Knows tour in the fall.