Guitarist Mary Halvorson and her quartet Canis Major—trumpeter Dave Adewumi, bassist Henry Fraser, and drummer Tomas Fujiwara—perform early and late sets at Close Up in New York City tonight and on Saturday. “Mary Halvorson released what will soon officially be one of the most acclaimed jazz albums of 2025,” Nate Chinen writes of her latest album with her sextet Amaryllis, About Ghosts, in his Substack, The Gig. “One hallmark of Amaryllis, and of Halvorson’s music broadly, is a precarious balance of precision and abandon ... Explosive and precise, just absolutely thrilling.” She recently spoke with Chinen’s co-host on WRTI’s The Late Set, which you can hear here.

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Classical singer Julia Bullock joins the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at Philharmonie Berlin on Saturday. The program includes works by Margaret Bonds, Gershwin, and Ives.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk and violist Richard O’Neill give a sold-out recital at Benaroya Hall in Seattle on Sunday. The program includes works by Bach, Hindemith, Beethoven, and Rebecca Clarke. Prior to the concert, Denk hosts a masterclass at the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Center for Chamber Music on Saturday.

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Singer/composer Gabriel Kahane and his father, pianist Jeffrey Kahane, perform at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC, on Sunday and Monday. The program includes works by Gabriel Kahane, as well as works by Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Samuel Barber, and Aaron Copland. Kahane’s new album Heirloom, featuring a concerto of the same name he wrote for his father, was released last month. "A musical roller coaster of a journey bursting with drama, detail and invention," says Gramophone. "With pianist Jeffrey Kahane in top form, and conductor Eric Jacobsen and The Knights' orchestral collective alive to the concerto's every twist and turn, here is a dazzling concerto du jour that glows with an exhilarating sense of its own clear purpose and inevitability."

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Natalie Merchant continues her three-week acoustic tour, joined by her guitarist of twenty-five years, Erik Della Penna, with two sold-out shows in Maryland: at The Avalon Theatre in Easton, tonight, and at Maryland Hall for Creative Arts in Annapolis on Sunday. Her latest record, Keep Your Courage, released on Nonesuch in 2023, dives into love and human connection in its many forms, with Mojo calling it “her most beautiful [material] in decades.”

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Mandy Patinkin continues his JukeBox tour with pianist Adam-Ben David at Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut tonight.

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Robert Plant and Saving Grace—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown—conclude their first-ever North American tour in support of their new album, Saving Grace, in California, performing at The Fox in Oakland tonight, United Theater on Broadway in Los Angeles on Saturday, and Harrah’s Resort SoCal in Valley Center on Sunday. Plant recently stopped by the Nonesuch offices to share some favorite records for the Nonesuch Selects series; you can see his picks, just published yesterday, here.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Mathis Picard, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—bring music from her album Oh Snap and more to Teatro Verdi in Padova, Italy, on Saturday for Padova Jazz Festival, and Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone in Rome on Sunday for Roma Jazz Festival. Salvant was on Cannonball with Wesley Morris to discuss the art of the cover song—a phrase Salvant doesn't use—and opens with a list of Morris's all-time favorites, on which he places Salvant's interpretation of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights," the opening track to her 2022 Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song, at No. 7. You can hear their conversation here.

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Chris Thile continues his European tour, bringing music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more, to Sala Villanos in Madrid tonight for Villanos del Jazz, and Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona on Saturday. Gramophone names the new Bach album and 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." You can watch a video of Thile performing the Largo from Sonata No. 3 in C major, directed by Matthew Edginton, here.

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Molly Tuttle continues her The Highway Knows tour in support of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, with shows at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati tonight, and a sold-out show at Jefferson Center’s Shaftman Performance Hall in Roanoke on Sunday. Tuttle has been nominated for two Grammy Awards: Best Americana Album for So Long Little Miss Sunshine and Best Americana Performance for the album track "That's Gonna Leave a Mark." Listen to her new holiday track with Golden Highway, joined by Ketch Secor, their take of The Pogues' 1987 holiday classic with Kirsty MacColl, "Fairytale of New York," here.