Joshua Redman and his trio, featuring Matt Penman on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, began their four-night residency at the Jazz Standard in New York City last night and continue with multiple sets each weekend night.

New York Times music critic Nate Chinen writes of Redman's latest Noensuch release, Compass, that he "works with two bass-and-drums teams, sometimes both at once, for a result that feels rewardingly loose." Of this week's single trio shows, Chinen says, "there should still be plenty of dynamism in the exchange."

Time Out New York includes the performances among the weekend's "must-see shows," saying that "Redman is making the strongest music of his career; proof can be found on his recent Nonesuch CDs (Compass is the latest), but it’s even more evident on the bandstand."

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As noted yesterday in the Nonesuch Journal, several Nonesuch artists perform in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park this weekend as part of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. T Bone Burnett and Punch Brothers kick things off on the Rooster Stage with special guests Karen Elson and the Secret Sisters this evening. From there, Punch Brothers head to the Lied Center in Lawrence, Kansas, for a performance on Saturday.

Back in San Francisco, Carolina Chocolate Drops are up next with a Saturday afternoon set on the Banjo Stage. The trio heads next to Petaluma, California, to perform at the Mystic Theatre with The Brothers Comatose on Sunday.

Closing out Hardly Strictly Bluegrass are Randy Newman, on the Towers of Gold Stage Sunday afternoon, and Emmylou Harris, on the Banjo Stage later that night.

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Laurie Anderson continues performances of her latest theater piece, Delusion, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater through the weekend, as part of BAM's Next Wave Festival.

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Ben Folds, whose collaborative album with Nick Hornby, Lonely Avenue, was released on Nonesuch earlier this week, is up for collaboration of a different sort this weekend, when he joins the Colorado Symphony in concert at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver tomorrow night.

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The Black Keys continue their sold-out North American tour this weekend with shows at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Saturday and the Orpheum in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday. Nicole Atkins opens throughout the tour.

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Shawn Colvin performs at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis tonight and at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center in Hamilton, Montana, on Saturday.

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Wanda Jackson, whose Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain't Over, is due out on Third Man / Nonesuch Records in January, performs at the Mill Creek Cattle Co. in Redlands, California, on Sunday, as part of Ruffneck Days, billed as the Inland Empire's premier hillbilly two-day festival.

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Pat Metheny kicks off a three-week tour of the United States featuring the music and instruments of his latest Nonesuch release, Orchestrion, with a tour opener at the University of Alabama's Alys Stephens Center in Birmingham tonight. Up next are stops at the Brown Theatre in Louisville Saturday and the Carnegie Library Music Hall in Munhall, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.

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Dawn Upshaw joins Crash Ensemble at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin Saturday night for a concert featuring the world premiere of That the Night Come, a new piece by the ensemble's artistic director, Donnacha Dennehy. The program also includes works by Osvaldo Golijov and John Zorn.

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Sara Watkins kicks off a weeklong tour with Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers at the Majestic Theater in Madison, Wisconsin, tonight, followed by shows at Lincoln Hall in Chicago on Saturday and The Maintenance Shop in Ames, Iowa, on Sunday.