From NYTimes.com:

BARGEMUSIC (Friday through Thursday) This is a busy week at this floating concert hall, with lots of new music and plenty of central European Romanticism as well. On Friday, in the first of two Hear and Now programs, the Flux Quartet plays music by Giacinto Scelsi, Conlon Nancarrow, Elliott Sharp, David First and Annie Gosfield. The second Hear and Now concert, on Wednesday, is a piano recital by Steven Beck, who is performing works by Barber, Bernstein, Copland, Peter Heller and Elliott Carter. Colin Carr, the cellist, and Thomas Sauer, the pianist, join forces for a Mendelssohn, Schumann and Brahms program on Saturday and Sunday. And on Thursday, Yuval Waldman, the violinist, and Tomas Vicek, the pianist, play works by Martinu, Vaclav Halek, Hugo Lowenthal, Jaroslav Jezek and Josef Suk. Friday, Saturday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 3 p.m.; Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing, next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn , (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; Friday and Wednesday, $25; $20 for 65+; $10 for students. Saturday, Sunday and Thursday, $35; $30 for 65+ $15 for students. (Allan Kozinn)

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday) The thriving classical music scene in Finland, which has produced an impressive number of performers, conductors and composers recently, is celebrated next week. On Tuesday, artists including the New Helsinki Quartet and the virtuoso clarinetist Kari Kriiku perform old and new works by composers including Sibelius, Jukka Tiensuu, Toivo Kuula, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg and Olli Mustonen. On Thursday, Mr. Kriiku joins his colleagues for music by Rautavaara, Uljas Voitto Pulkkis, Kaija Saariaho and Mr. Lindberg. On Monday, there will be a free symposium in the Rose Studio. Monday at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Rose Studio, Rose Building, Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street; Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center; (212) 875-5788, chambermusicsociety.org; free on Monday; $25 to $52 on Tuesday; sold out on Thursday. (Schweitzer)

ENSEMBLE PI (Saturday) This new-music group — or, as it bills itself, “the socially conscious new-music collective” — performs an annual concert for peace, built around works that explore conflict and communication. This year’s program, “Dancer on a Tightrope,” includes Karim Al-Zand’s “Swimmy,” a setting of that Leo Lionni children’s story; Frederic Rzewski’s “Whangdoodles”; Kristin Norderval’s “Remarkable Failure”; and works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Behzad Ranjbaran. At 8 p.m., Cooper Union, Seventh Street, at Third Avenue, East Village , (212) 362-4745, ensemble-pi.org; $15; $10 for students and 65+. (Kozinn)

? KRONOS QUARTET (Friday through Sunday) This maverick ensemble scampers all over the map for three concerts in its Perspectives series, with new pieces and special guests on each bill. On Friday, the toy-piano player Margaret Leng Tan, the instrument builder Victor Gama and the electronic duo Matmos join the quartet. Finnish accordion music and Inuit throat singing figures into Saturday night’s Arctic-inspired program. And on Sunday the ensemble interacts with the Korean performer Dohee Lee, the Afghan rubab player Homayoun Sakhi and the magnificent Azerbaijan singers Alim and Fargana Qasimov. Friday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 10 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall , (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $28 to $42. (Smith)

From Sonomu:

Náhvalur, Aboideau (CDR Mystery Sea)
A perfectly amphibious album – splashing about in and around the water – harmoniously constructed by Alexandre Rito and Matthew Ellis as Náhvalur, “narwhal” in Icelandic and Faroese. ”Roth Ramach” achieves admirable aquatic stillness with nothing but a low rumble disturbed only by the… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 03:18, 10 Mar 2010

Nils Frahm, Dauw (business card CDR Machinefabriek)
German pianist Nils Frahm´s piano transcription of Machinefabriek´s “Dauw” (from the long-player of the same name) is infused with quiet passion, an interesting contrast to the stately intellectualism of the original. His interpretation, stating the track´s simple four-note theme then digressing… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 09:01, 08 Mar 2010

From NYTimes.com:

MICHAËL ATTIAS AND RENKU +2 (Saturday) Mr. Attias, a saxophonist, develops compositional fragments into compact expeditions in Renku, a working trio with the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Satoshi Takeishi. Here he adds two alert interlopers, the trumpeter Kirk Knuffke and the pianist Russ Lossing. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village , (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; cover, $10, with a $6 minimum. (Chinen)

PETER EVANS QUINTET (Tuesday) Peter Evans, best recognized for his role in the upstart free-bop quartet Mostly Other People Do the Killing, is a trumpeter with an expressive command of timbre and tone. He’s also a bandleader of emerging promise, as he’ll seek to demonstrate here. Sharing the bill is the adventurous pianist Craig Taborn, performing a solo set. At 9:30 p.m., Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, near Thompson Street, Greenwich Village , (212) 505-3474, lepoissonrouge.com; $10. (Chinen)

MARY HALVORSON QUINTET (Thursday) Mary Halvorson, an engagingly prickly guitarist of increasing prominence in new-music circles, recently expanded her sharp working trio, adding the trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson and the alto saxophonist Jon Irabagon. She presents that full group here, along with new material obliquely inspired by the palette of Benny Golson’s music for the 1950s-era Jazz Messengers. At 8 p.m., Roulette, 20 Greene Street, at Grand Street, SoHo , (212) 219-8242, roulette.org; $15; $10 for students; free for members. (Chinen)

GIUSEPPI LOGAN / EDGE (Tuesday) Mr. Logan is an alto saxophonist whose promising start, on the mid-1960s free-jazz scene, was curtailed by a mysterious silence. (In one prominent accounting of the era, he was said to have vanished.) His return is now officially at hand, courtesy of an uncompromising new release on the Tompkins Square label, which he celebrates here. Opening the bill — on a program organized by Mr. Logan’s old label, ESP-Disk — is Edge, a quartet led by the violinist Jason Kao Hwang. At 10 p.m., Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker Streets , live.espdisk.com; bowerypoetry.com; $10. (Chinen)

MALABY-SANCHEZ-RAINEY (Saturday) A collective that treads a middle ground between lyricism and abstraction, this trio consists of Tony Malaby on tenor saxophone, Angelica Sanchez on piano and Tom Rainey on drums. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, at Spring Street, South Village , (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $20; $10 for students. (Chinen)

From Free Jazz:

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2010
Sabir Mateen & Frode Gjerstad – Sound Gathering (Not Two, 2010) ***
Sabir Mateen – URDLA XXX (RogueArt, 2010) ****

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010
Jean-Marc Foussat & Sylvain Guérineau – Aliquid (Leo, 2010) ***½
Tasos Stamou & Ilan Manouach (Absurd Records, 2009) ****

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010
Barre Phillips – Portraits (Kadima, 2010) ****

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From Improvised Communications:

The Brooklyn-based quartet Little Women will be touring both North America and Europe this spring in support of its full-length debut, Throat, coming April 13th on AUM Fidelity.

North American tour dates:

04/01 :: King Street Manor (Northampton, MA)
04/02 :: Venue TBA (Montreal, QC)
04/03 :: Teranga (Toronto, ON)
04/04 :: East Village Arts Co-Op (East London, ON)
04/05 :: Soundlab (Buffalo, NY)
04/06 :: Venue TBA (Kalamazoo, MI)
04/07 :: The Hideout (Chicago, IL)
04/08 :: The Velvet Lounge (Chicago, IL)
04/09 :: Bela Dubby (Lakewood, OH)
04/10 :: Venue TBA (Pittsburgh, PA)
04/11 :: The Windup Space (Baltimore, MD)

European tour dates:

05/05 :: Jazzclub Neue Tonne (Dresden, Germany)
05/06 :: Jazzclub Hipnoza (Katowice, Poland)
05/07 :: Stadtwerkstatt (Linz, Austria)
05/08 :: JazzDock (Prague, Czech Republic)
05/09 :: Black Box at cuba-cultur (Münster, Germany)
05/10 :: WORM (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
05/11 :: Voorhuit (Gent, Belgium)
05/12 :: Bunker Ulmenwall (Bielefeld, Germany)
05/13 :: Lades (Copenhagen, Denmark)

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From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET:

March 10, 2010 Kris Davis Quartet, Barbes Kris Davis, Tony Malaby, Eivind Opsvik, Tom Rainey
March 09, 2010 Jenny Scheinman & Mary Halvorson, Barbes Mary Halvorson, Jenny Scheinman

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From Wesleyan:

Friday, April 23rd, 2O1O – 8 pm – FREE
ANTHONY BRAXTON SMALL ENSEMBLE
“Saxophonist, composer and professor Anthony Braxton, known for his ground-breaking jazz and experimental music, performs in an intimate, small-ensemble setting.”

Thursday, April 29th, 2O1O – 8 pm – FREE
ANTHONY BRAXTON LARGE ENSEMBLE
Professor Braxton’s student ensemble performs his music.

Both at Crowell Concert Hall
Wesleyan University
283 Washington Terrace
Middletown, CT O6459
86O-685-3355

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Nate Wooley will play the Brooklyn Lyceum on April 4th.

Matthew Shipp’s latest effort garners a review.

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