MELISSA ALDANA AND AARON DIEHL at Dizzy’s Club (Dec. 21, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). Both Aldana, a tenor saxophonist, and Diehl, a pianist, are decorated young musicians with fearsome chops and deft, judicious styles of improvising. (Aldana won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2013, and Diehl has played on multiple Grammys-winning albums with the vocalist from his work alongside the vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant.) They have occasionally performed as a duo at the downtown basement club Mezzrow. Saturday’s show will mark their first appearance at Dizzy’s in that format.

212-258-9595, jazz.org/dizzys

PATRICIA BRENNAN’S MOCH at National Sawdust (Dec. 26, 7 p.m.). A percussionist and composer whose main instruments are the vibraphone and marimba, Brennan has recently started to make her presence known on the New York avant-garde, working with such prominent bandleaders as Matt Mitchell and Michael Formanek. Here she will perform an eight-part audiovisual suite titled “Raíces Jarochas,” inspired by the music of her native Veracruz, a hub of Mexico’s Afro-Latino population. Moch, the band she’s assembled for the performance, features Formanek on bass, Mauricio Herrera on percussion and Noel Brennan on turntables, electronics and video. This show is part of National Sawdust’s continuing John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series.

646-779-8455, nationalsawdust.org

ROY HARGROVE TRIBUTE BIG BAND at the Jazz Gallery (Dec. 20-21, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). The trumpeter Roy Hargrove’s death last year at 49 left the jazz world bereaved. In January, a tribute concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center stretched into the wee hours, a reminder of how many musicians — older as well as younger — had been touched by his influence. One of the most stirring moments of that concert came when the vocalist Renée Neufville sang a tribute song that she and the saxophonist Justin Robinson had finished writing that same day. This weekend at the Jazz Gallery — which Hargrove co-founded in 1995 — an ensemble featuring many musicians who played with Hargrove at various points in his career will perform, with Neufville featured as a special guest.

646-494-3625, jazzgallery.nyc

CARMEN LUNDY at Jazz Standard (through Dec. 22, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). Lundy established herself in the early 1980s as a talented multi-instrumentalist, restlessly inventive composer and husky-voiced singer ready to pick up the mantle from the likes of Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan. She never became a household name on that level, but she remains one of the most respected jazz voices of her generation. At Jazz Standard this weekend, she is celebrating the release of “Modern Ancestors,” a fine new album of 10 original compositions. At these shows her band includes Andrew Renfroe on guitar, Matthew Whitaker on piano, Kenny Davis on bass, Kassa Overall on drums and Mayra Casales on percussion.

212-576-2232, jazzstandard.com

REBIRTH BRASS BAND at Brooklyn Bowl (Dec. 20-21, 8:30 p.m.). For over 35 years, the Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band has boisterously carried forward the marching-band tradition of New Orleans, covering everything from traditional Mardi Gras fare to modern jazz and R&B hits. On Friday, Rebirth will share the bill with Erik Deutsch, a pianist and bandleader who plays a kind of jam-band music not far from the sound of Galactic. On Saturday, the opening band will be the Chicago-based Lowdown Brass Band.

718-963-3369, brooklynbowl.com

PHAROAH SANDERS at the Iridium (Dec. 27-29, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.). A paragon of spiritual jazz since the 1960s, when he was in some of John Coltrane’s last ensembles, Sanders, 79, still knows how to flit gracefully from serene balladry to tone-splitting eruptions. Often singing and dancing onstage when the tenor saxophone is not at his lips, Sanders can make a two-chord vamp feel like a flotation device. At these concerts, which fall in the middle of Kwanzaa, his quartet will include the pianist Benito Gonzalez, the bassist Nat Reeves and the drummer Johnathan Blake.

212-582-2121, theiridium.com

GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO