BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET at the Rose Theater (Feb. 28-29, 8 p.m.). The history of this quartet, as an entity, begins in the late 1980s, when Marsalis was in his 20s, dabbling in pop music and film scoring. The group became his vehicle for exploring jazz qua jazz, playing vital music that resonated down the corridors of its own history. In the three decades since, it has never become stale or stuck. The quartet now features Joey Calderazzo on piano, Eric Revis on bass and Justin Faulkner on drums, who have settled into a style that mixes explosive post-bop playing with influences from Romanticism and European folk song, as on its most recent album, the Grammy-nominated “The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul.” Opening for the quartet at Jazz at Lincoln Center is Citizens of the Blues, a young quartet featuring Anthony Hervey on trumpet, Isaiah J. Thompson on piano, Philip Norris on bass and Domo Branch on drums.

212-721-6500, jazz.org

CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT at the Village Vanguard (through March 1, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.). How do you reanimate some of the hoary American songbook’s most troubling artifacts (“If a Girl Isn’t Pretty,” “You Bring Out the Savage in Me”), implicating us all in our collective history, without acting as either a scold or a balm? How do you embrace your imposing, almost unfathomable command as a vocalist while still meeting your audience at eye level? These are the questions that, over the past decade or so, jazz listeners have watched Salvant — now 30, and the unrivaled doyen of young jazz vocalists — work through. This week at the Vanguard she’s joined by a new quintet featuring Alexa Tarantino on alto saxophone, James Chirillo on guitar, Sullivan Fortner on piano and Keita Ogawa on percussion. On Saturday only, she and Fortner will appear in a duo, without the rest of the ensemble.

212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com

MILES OKAZAKI at the Stone (March 3-7, 8:30 p.m.). Okazaki’s firm, flinty touch gives his guitar playing a feeling of warmth and dependability — the comfort of a heavy blanket — even when he’s capering through an odd time signature or chasing down a crooked melody. He rarely plays in full chords, preferring to trace out little houndstooth patters or to use curt, two- and three-note harmonies. He will bring a different group to the Stone each night, including a quintet on Tuesday featuring Wendy Eisenberg on guitar, Michael Formanek on bass, Uri Caine on piano and Ches Smith on drums; on the last night of the run he’ll play with the quartet from his widely celebrated 2018 album, “Trickster.”

thestonenyc.com

TYSHAWN SOREY SEXTET at the Jazz Gallery (March 3-7, 7:30 p.m.). A drummer, trombonist, composer, professor and much more, Sorey is the kind of musician — and inveterate project-starter — who’s tough to keep track of. Even within a single performance, he might surge from a passage of pin-drop silence to overwhelming accrual to delicately crafted collective action. His latest undertaking is a sextet featuring five younger musicians on the New York scene: Nathan Reising on alto saxophone, Morgan Guerin on tenor saxophone, Lex Korten on piano, Sasha Berliner on vibraphone and Nick Dunston on bass. These shows at the Jazz Gallery are the group’s first extended run in New York.

646-494-3625, jazzgallery.nyc

SUN RA ARKESTRA AND WILLIAM PARKER at the Town Hall (March 4, 7 p.m.). The Sun Ra Arkestra, avant-garde jazz’s most flamboyant legacy ensemble, shares the bill with a compatriot who is roughly its opposite: the quietly industrious bassist William Parker, who for 40 years has served as a mentor and connector on New York’s hardscrabble free-jazz scene. But don’t get it twisted: The Arkestra’s concerts are a kind of cosmo-jazz hootenanny, sure, but they’re really an invitation to do the sort of counterintuitive truth-seeking that Sun Ra always espoused during his lifetime. Likewise, Parker performances have all the roughness and discordance of his hometown, but they’re joyous affairs, too. Especially when he presents “Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield,” his interrogation of that soul pioneer’s compositions, with a midsize band. This double feature is presented by Arts for Art, the organization behind New York’s Vision Festival, which is celebrating its 25th year.

800-745-3000, thetownhall.org

MATT WILSON, MIMI JONES AND JEFF LEDERER at Café Bohemia (Feb. 28-29, 8 and 10 p.m.). For a few years in the 1950s, when bebop innovation was thick on the ground across the West Village, Café Bohemia was one of the central havens. Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley gave historic performances there, some of which became canonical recordings. The club had been closed for over half a century when it reopened late last year at its original location, 15 Barrow Street. This weekend it will once again be the site of a live recording: The drummer Matt Wilson, the bassist Mimi Jones and the saxophonist Jeff Lederer will perform, and the nonprofit organization Giant Step Arts will be capturing the shows for a possible future album.

212-691-6127, cafebohemianyc.com

GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO