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12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi of Tedeschi Trucks Band. Their yearly residency at the Beacon Theater starts on Friday.Credit...Ian Rawn

Our guide to pop and rock shows and the best of live jazz happening this weekend and in the week ahead.

J BALVIN at Madison Square Garden (Sept. 29, 8 p.m.). Hailing from Medellín, Colombia, this reggaeton singer is a new kind of crossover star: Unlike many of his predecessors, he hasn’t felt compelled to bridge the language barrier in order to crack the pop market in the United States. Instead, Balvin leverages trap-inspired flows and collaborations with high-profile American stars like Cardi B and Beyoncé, all the while staying true to his Spanish-language roots and racking up global streaming numbers that surpass those of both women. Speaking to The New York Times about “Oasis,” a new collaborative album with the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, in June, Balvin foretold a bright future for Latin artists: “It’s just the beginning of a new global Spanish wave.”
212-465-6000, msg.com

IGBO at the Broadway (Sept. 30, 8 p.m.). This Brooklyn-based band knows a thing or two about good “First Impressions”: The so-named lead single from their debut album, “Attitude,” offers a wildly fun blast of synth funk and a contagious sense of mischief. Over the summer, the group kept busy, organizing a series of cookout shows to highlight up-and-coming talent, as has become their annual tradition. On Monday, they’ll take back the spotlight with a headlining gig in celebration of their new album at this recently overhauled and renamed Brooklyn club. The band’s live show, anchored by their impossibly energetic frontwoman, Jypsy Jeyfree, promises to entertain.
thebroadway.nyc

‘LIVE FROM HERE’ at the Town Hall (Sept. 28, 5:45 p.m.). This weekly radio variety show — the successor to Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” — is settling into its new Manhattan home following a recent move from its former base in St. Paul, Minn. The mandolinist Chris Thile handles hosting duties, welcoming a range of musical and comedic talents to the stage during live tapings at this Midtown theater. Saturday’s guests will include Jamila Woods, the Chicago-born singer and spoken word poet, whose most recent album, “Legacy! Legacy!,” honors a rich lineage of artists of color including Zora Neale Hurston and Miles Davis. The folk-rock band Dawes will also perform.
212-997-6661, thetownhall.org

MAGGIE ROGERS at Radio City Music Hall (Oct. 1-2, 8 p.m.). In 2016, the world was introduced to this singer-songwriter through a viral video of the chronic hit maker Pharrell raving about her breakout song, “Alaska.” Three years later, Rogers is still going strong. Her debut album, “Heard It in a Past Life,” came out in January; it dials up the volume on the delicate folk-dance hybrid of “Alaska,” producing seismic hooks (“Retrograde,” “Burning”) befitting a soon-to-be pop star. Rogers sells out nearly every show she plays these days. The performances at Radio City in the coming week are no exception — she sold out the hall, two times over, in about an hour — but resale tickets are readily available.
212-465-6000, radiocity.com

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND at the Beacon Theater (Sept. 27-28, 8 p.m.; Oct. 1-2, 7:30 p.m.; through Oct. 5). Fronted by the husband-and-wife duo of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, this band is a true labor of love. For nearly a decade, the pair have worked together, along with the 10 other musicians who make up their company, to carry forth the Southern roots-rock torch. They have done so with as much vigor as ever following the recent deaths of some of their musical forebears — including Gregg Allman, Leon Russell and Trucks’s uncle Butch Trucks. Still, a sense of loss pervades their latest album, “Signs,” which came out in February. This week, for the ninth year in a row, the band returns to the Beacon for a multinight residency.
212-465-6000, beacontheatre.com

[Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead.]

KATE TEMPEST at Elsewhere (Oct. 1, 8 p.m.). Tempest has recorded three albums and received a Mercury Prize nomination, but she has also written novels, plays and poetry collections, so you could argue that words, not music, are this British polymath’s true medium. Her songs are often described as rap, but her cadences more closely resemble those of spoken word; her knotty lyrics read like poetry, and melody is a tertiary concern. Tempest’s latest album, “The Book of Traps and Lessons,” was produced by the industry veteran Rick Rubin; at Elsewhere on Monday, she’ll wrap a brief North American tour behind the record.
elsewherebrooklyn.com
OLIVIA HORN

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Ron Carter will speak with WQXR’s Terrance McKnight and play with an ensemble of jazz musicians and a quartet of cellists on Saturday at Merkin Hall.Credit...Erika Goldring/Getty Images

DAVID BRYANT TRIO at Mezzrow (Sept. 27-28, 7:30 and 9 p.m.). This young Brooklyn-born pianist has proved frustratingly good at not overselling his talents. Unlike many of his generation, he has not rushed to put out albums under his own name (not even one, actually), and you’re more likely to catch him accompanying an elder musician than leading his own band. There’s a lot of merit to that approach, though it feels less common in New York these days. When playing straight-ahead jazz (in, say, the eminent drummer Louis Hayes’s band), Bryant thickens and enriches things with inventive harmonies, but never sounds overserious or complexified. Moving in more avant-garde scenarios (with Steve Coleman or Henry Threadgill), he articulates his lines strongly while keeping them wide open to their musical surroundings. He appears on Friday with the bassist Chris Tordini and the drummer Craig Weinrib; on Saturday he and Weinrib will be joined by Thomas Morgan on bass.
646-476-4346, mezzrow.com

RON CARTER at Merkin Hall (Sept. 28, 8 p.m.). The questions that you could ask this 82-year-old National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, who is said to be the most-recorded bassist in jazz history, are almost limitless. Terrance McKnight, a musician and WQXR radio host, will have a chance to pose a few at this concert, during which he will interview Carter onstage. But the main attraction is, of course, the music: Here Carter will perform with an intriguing hybrid ensemble, featuring a quartet of cellists (Maxine Neuman, Zoe Hassman, Carol Buck and Dorothy Lawson) conjoined with a jazz group (Don Byron on clarinet, Donald Vega on piano, Leon Maleson on bass and Payton Crossley on drums). Carter will play the piccolo bass, an instrument that allows him to more easily assume a leading role.
212-501-3330, kaufmanmusiccenter.org

FRED FRITH at the Stone (through Sept. 28, 8:30 p.m.). From his work in the late 1960s and early ’70s with Henry Cow — a band that presaged the experimental and progressive rock movements — this guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and sometime instrument maker has stood just outside of any conventional genre, or conventional instrumental practice. His approach on the guitar comprises a mix of atonal, slyly percussive dots and dashes; scattered speckles of notes; and occasional flashes of lyrical beauty, often augmented by electronic effects and extraneous noisemaking devices. At the Stone this week he is in residence with his trio, featuring Jason Hoopes on bass and Jordan Glenn on drums. They’ll be joined on Thursday by the saxophonist Lotte Anker, on Friday by the trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, and on Saturday by both Santos Silva and the keyboardist Evelyn Davis.
thestonenyc.com

CHRIS LIGHTCAP’S SUPERBIGMOUTH at the Jazz Gallery (Oct. 3, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). With whatever band Lightcap is leading, he strikes a masterly balance between urgent, punctuated bass playing and smooth, sighing melodies on top. In his group Bigmouth, the lead instruments are two tenor saxophones; in Superette, it’s a pair of electric guitarists. His latest endeavor is SuperBigmouth, a composite of those two ensembles, featuring the tenor saxophonists Tony Malaby and Chris Cheek, the guitarists Jonathan Goldberger and Curtis Hasselbring, the keyboardist Craig Taborn, and the drummers Gerald Cleaver and Dan Rieser. That group is about to release a self-titled debut album, which commingles shades of prog rock, spiritual jazz and the indie-lounge vibes of Stereolab, resulting in something altogether new. Here SuperBigmouth will present music from that recording.
646-494-3625, jazzgallery.nyc

AARON PARKS TRIO at the Village Vanguard (through Sept. 29, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.). Parks may be only 35 years old, but his influence on young musicians coming out of conservatories has already begun to show in a major way. On albums like “Invisible Cinema” (2008), “Find the Way” (2017) and “Little Big” (2018), he upends the distinction between the roles of the left and right hands, playing lithe and elegant patterns that alternate between the two, or sculpting crisp, refracted chords with both. This week marks Parks’s debut as a leader at the historic Vanguard; he will perform with Ben Street on bass and Billy Hart on drums, the trio that appeared on “Find the Way.”
212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com

CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT at the Rose Theater (Sept. 27-28, 8 p.m.). This virtuoso vocalist, composer and unofficial musical anthropologist debuted “Ogresse” — the darkly humorous, fantastical suite she wrote with the composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue — one year ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It has only been performed a few times since: With its 13-piece orchestra (featuring the Mivos string quartet and an eight-person jazz group, all conducted by Argue), it’s a bit of a bear to present. But the reviews of these shows have generally been raves, and this performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s main theater affords another opportunity to experience it in rarefied surroundings.
212-721-6500, jazz.org
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

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