Trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire joins guitarist Bill Frisell at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on Saturday for SFJAZZ’s Bill Frisell 75th Birthday Celebration. The celebration also features vocalist Petra Haden, violist Eyvind Kang, cellist Hank Roberts, and violinist Jenny Scheinman. Akinmusire also takes part in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frisell birthday festivities later this month. His latest album, honey from a winter stone, made year-end-best lists of DownBeat, Jazzwise, Mojo, and more and was recently nominated for the Jazz FM Award for Album of the Year.

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Sérgio and Odair Assad continue their 60th Anniversary Farewell Tour at Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe tonight, then head across the US to perform at UMBC in Baltimore on Sunday. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of their Nonesuch debut album, Latin American Music for Two Guitars. On the album, the brothers—"the best two-guitar team in existence, maybe even in history" (Washington Post)—perform music by Astor Piazzolla, Leo Brouwer, Hermeto Pascoal, Radamés Gnattali, Alberto Ginastera, and Sérgio himself.

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Classical singer Julia Bullock performs with Auckland Philharmonia at Auckland Town Hall in New Zealand on Saturday for Auckland Arts Festival. The program includes works by Gershwin, Bernstein, and more. Bullock’s solo debut album, Walking in the Dark, was released on Nonesuch in 2022 and won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk and the Isidore String Quartet perform at Shriver Hall in Baltimore on Sunday. The program includes works by Haydn, Billy Childs, and Schumann, whose work he performs on his 2019 album, c. 1300–c. 2000.

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Guitarist Mary Halvorson joins Jacob Garchik’s Ye Olde at Loove Labs in Brooklyn tonight, following a set by Sexmob, whose live album with Laurie Anderson, Let X=X, is out May 8. Halvorson’s latest album, About Ghosts, was recognized on many year-end-best lists, including The Quietus, Jazzwise, Mojo, PopMatters, Slate, and more.

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Pianist Brad Mehldau joins hr-Bigband and its composer-in-residence and conductor Darcy James Argue at hr-Sendesaal in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, tonight. Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—was released last year. It made year's best lists from Mojo, Jazzwise, Record Collector, PopMatters, and more. Argue’s latest album with his Secret Society ensemble, Dynamic Maximum Tension, was released on Nonesuch in 2023.

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Composer Caroline Shaw and choreographer Vanessa Goodman are in Canada for Graveyards and Gardens, a collaborative performance installation they conceived and created and which they perform at The Stage at St. Andrews in Halifax, Nova Scotia, tonight and Saturday, following last night's performance. The new work examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events, embracing the various elaborations, distortions, and omissions.

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Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider's Something for the Dark gets its first St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performances in a program conducted by David Robertson at Powell Hall in St. Louis tonight and Saturday, with the composer in attendance. The program, titled American Reflections, also includes works by Bernstein, Steven Mackey, and the conductor himself. Something for the Dark, a meditation on resilience, is featured on Snider's fifth full-length LP, the all-orchestral album Forward Into Light, released last week. The album, produced by Silas Brown and recorded by Metropolis Ensemble and conductor Andrew Cyr, also features the title track, Drink the Wild Ayre, and Eye of Mnemosyne. “I chose to create an album of these four works because they share themes of perseverance, alliance, and evolution through dark and light—concepts that have been at the forefront of my mind in recent years." You can get the album and hear it here.

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Mandolinist Chris Thile kicked off his European tour earlier this week, bringing music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more to Södra Teatern in Stockholm tonight and The Queen's Hall in Copenhagen on Saturday. Gramophone names the album an Editor's Choice, calling it "an album of real beauty, emerging as if through the mist—the mandolin proceeds to bring to this familiar music a vivid and highly personal sense of both mystery and joy."

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Tortoise, whose first new album since 2016, Touch, was released last fall, concludes its series of special Pacific Northwest winter performances with a show at The Pearl in Vancouver, British Columbia, tonight. Band member Dan Bitney recently stopped by the Nonesuch offices to share some favorite records for the Nonesuch Selects video series; you can watch it and see his picks, here.

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Molly Tuttle joins Tyler Childers for his UK and European tour, performing at OVO Hydro in Glasgow tonight and AO Arena in Manchester on Sunday. Tuttle was on American Songwriter’s Off the Record to discuss her latest album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on which, says host Lisa Konicki, Tuttle "explores country, rock, and pop; all the while, she's still the amazing guitar player that we know and love."

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Guitarist Yasmin Williams takes part in the Say Sister! Guitar Festival this weekend, performing at Seekers Church in Washington, DC, tonight before heading to Baltimore for a diverse celebration of women in roots music at Creative Alliance. She gives a master class “in thinking outside the box on guitar” on Saturday afternoon before performing in the concert there that evening. Williams, whose Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, was released in 2024, recently received the International Folk Music Awards’ Rising Tide Award.