PETER BERNSTEIN AND GILAD HEKSELMAN at the Jazz Gallery (Aug. 3, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). Here’s a two-for-one deal for fans of masterful jazz guitar. With an ore-like tone and a deep sense of assurance, Bernstein, 51, refers back to classic jazz guitar influences like Grant Green and Pat Martino. Hekselman, 36, owes a lot to the more nebulous tone of Kurt Rosenwinkel, though he has a knack for playful misdirection and blues inflection that gives him an identity of his own. Occasionally Bernstein and Hekselman come together in a quartet, sparring over jazz standards. For this date they are joined by the bassist Ben Street and the drummer Eric McPherson.

646-494-3625, jazzgallery.nyc

GEORGE CABLES TRIO at Smoke (Aug. 5; 7, 9 and 10:30 p.m.). With a pianist as comfortably situated in jazz’s mainstream tradition as Cables, you might expect his music to sound like a seminar, or a rehashing of old devices. Instead, it hits you in a more direct way: as evocation, or maybe image. Track how Cables, 74, lets time shrink and expand, tossing out his notes in quick clumps and then spreading them out, so that the rhythm nearly loses its swing. Or imagine his harmonies as a 3-D object, with four or six or eight sides depending, the light hitting each chord differently. He appears here with the bassist Ed Howard and the drummer Victor Lewis.

212-864-6662, smokejazz.com

AVISHAI COHEN TRIO at the Blue Note (Aug. 1-4, 8 and 10:30 p.m.). Cohen is a middleweight champion of contemporary jazz bass playing, as agile as he is aggressive. The trio that he started in the mid-2000s, featuring the pianist Shai Maestro and the drummer Mark Guiliana, proved an ideal vessel for his punchy compositions; at these reunion shows, that group will revisit the material from their 2008 album, “Gently Disturbed.”

212-475-8592, bluenote.net

‘ELLINGTON ON BROADWAY’ at Birdland (Aug. 4, 5:30 p.m.). This event marks the debut of a new monthly series, presented by the Duke Ellington Center for the Arts and the American Tap Dance Foundation, celebrating the intertwined legacies of jazz’s premier big bandleader and tap dance. The first show is “Ellington on Broadway,” and it features music from “Play On!” and “Sophisticated Ladies,” two musicals that feature the Duke’s compositions.

212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.com

BILL FRISELL at the Village Vanguard (Aug. 6-11, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.). Blue Note Records announced this week that it had signed Frisell, a homey eminence of downtown guitar experimentalism. He has often appeared on the label as a sideman over the years, but “Harmony,” due this fall, will be his first as a leader. Whatever he has in store with that release, his recent albums for ECM — luminous duo affairs with the bassist Thomas Morgan — probably offer a good clue of what to expect at these shows, where he and Morgan will be joined by the drummer Rudy Royston.

212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com

INGRID LAUBROCK at the Stone (Aug. 6-10, 8:30 p.m.). Laubrock can manipulate her tenor saxophone with everything from thin, breathy lines to harsh slaps of the tongue. Despite her expressionist tendencies, she never lets go of her devotion to cool, lyrical clarity. Laubrock kicks off a five-night run at the Stone on Tuesday with Mary Halvorson on guitar, Kris Davis on piano and Tom Rainey on drums. She will convene a different combo on each of the following nights — featuring all-stars of the avant-garde — before wrapping things up with a quintet performance on Aug. 10 dedicated to the music of Anthony Braxton.

thestonenyc.com

GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO