AMARO FREITAS TRIO at Dizzy’s Club (July 31, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). A young pianist from Recife, Brazil, Freitas makes the keys dance and chatter, as if each note were ricocheting off all the others, taking on energy and momentum from the swarm around it. You can hear traces of the frevo dance tradition of his hometown, the contagious rhythms and layered compositions of Moacir Santos (who hailed from nearby Flores), and the influence of virtuoso American improvisers like Chick Corea. A rising star back home, Freitas is presented here in his New York debut as part of Brasil Summerfest. He will be joined by the members of his trio, the bassist Jean Elton and the drummer Hugo Medeiros.

212-258-9595, jazz.org/dizzys

HERBIE HANCOCK at the Beacon Theater (Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m.). Maybe no other living musician has stayed so consistently at the front of the creative pack. An early innovator in the realms of post-bop, jazz-funk fusion and electronic music, Hancock has exerted an influence that seems particularly au courant today, when the roles of the producer, performer and technologist have all blended together. Recently, he has been working with a coterie of younger musicians, such as Flying Lotus and Robert Glasper, whose work rides the wake of his own innovations. He will soon start to release new music from those collaborations, and he is likely to draw from that fresh repertoire at the Beacon, where he appears with the drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, the bassist James Genus, the guitarist Lionel Loueke and the multi-instrumentalist Terrace Martin. The bassist and vocalist Thundercat will make a special guest appearance.

212-465-6500, beacontheatre.com

HAILU MERGIA AND KASSA OVERALL at Industry City (July 27, 8 p.m.). When Mergia moved to the United States in the early 1980s, he was one of the most famous keyboardists and bandleaders in Ethiopia. In the ensuing decades, his star faded as he settled into a quotidian life as a taxi driver in the Washington area, but last year he released the enchanting “Lala Belu.” His first album of new music in two decades, it’s an organic blend of dance-inducing rhythms and swirling, transportive improvisations. There’s a sense of tacit agreement, then, between his music and that of Overall, a young drummer, producer and rapper who pulls from various world music traditions, electronic adventurism and left-field hip-hop. Overall opens this show with a set from his band, Blue Swamini, featuring the harpist Brandee Younger as a special guest.

cityfarmpresents.com



STEPH RICHARDS AND LAST KIND WORDS at the Owl Music Parlor (Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m.). Richards is an experimental trumpeter who uses extended technique — that is, methods beyond how the instrument was originally meant to be played — to craft dusky, turbid, rhythmically skewed original music. Here she appears in an impressive quartet featuring Joshua White on piano, Stomu Takeishi on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums. Also performing is a collective of improvisers who come together periodically under the banner Last Kind Words, using an open-ended approach to interrogate the blues and other forms of music from the early recorded era. That group features the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ali Dineen, the vocalist and violinist Charlie Burnham, the clarinetist Ben Goldberg and the guitarist Oren Bloedow.

718-774-0042, theowl.nyc

MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA at Jazz Standard (July 30-31, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). This year marks the 25th anniversary of “Evanescence,” Maria Schneider’s debut release with her orchestra. In the years since, her flocking and soaring compositions have become a kind of new gold standard among large-ensemble jazz composers. Earlier this year she accepted a Jazz Masters award from the National Endowment for the Arts, making her, at 58, the youngest woman to receive jazz’s premier honor. At the Standard, her orchestra will debut material that Schneider plans to include in an as-yet-untitled new album.

212-576-2232, jazzstandard.com

GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

Editor’s Pick

SEBADOH at Bowery Ballroom (July 26, 8 p.m.). For some 30 years, minus a hiatus that spanned the 2000s, this band’s songwriting core of Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein has cranked out a trove of rock songs that in a just universe would have been megahits — “Spoiled,” “Soul and Fire,” “Mind Reader,” “Happily Divided,” “Tree,” to name just a handful — and their latest album, “Act Surprised,” adds a couple of more gems to that pile, notably “Celebrate the Void” and “Raging River.” Whereas their early albums, like 1991’s “Sebadoh III,” were delightful, musically schizophrenic smorgasbords of angst and longing, “Act Surprised” is a more perfect union, an integrated rocket of melodic propulsion shooting toward a horizon beyond which the misfit girls and boys can find existential communion. Seeing as the Bowery gig is the penultimate of a two-week tear through Canada, the Midwest and the South, expect a tightly served set list of old tunes and new. Opening is Eleanor Friedberger, who has played with Loewenstein and Sebadoh’s current drummer, Bob D’Amico, in her and her brother Matthew’s band, the Fiery Furnaces.

212-260-4700, boweryballroom.com

DANIELLE DOWLING