Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express, who came together in Jodhpur, India, last year to record the album Junun, reunite to perform the album live in its entirety for the first time in the UK, at the Barbican Hall in London tonight.

Junun was recorded in a makeshift studio inside the 15th-century Mehrangarh Fort in the Indian state of Rajasthan in early 2015. The album, released late last year on Nonesuch Records to critical acclaim, was produced by Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, and the recording sessions were documented by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson—a friend and frequent collaborator of Greenwood—for a film of the same name. The Guardian calls the album “joyous and hypnotic.” The Times calls it "one of the most inspired releases of the year … intriguing, sinuous, and essential listening."

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Jeremy Denk, who kicked off a trio of shows with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Chicago’s Symphony Hall last night, continues the residency on Saturday night, with the final performance taking place on Tuesday of next week. Denk and the CSO, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, are performing a program of Central European music, including Dvořák’s Scherzo capriccioso, Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and two pieces from Janáček, including his Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen and Taras Bulba.

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Kronos Quartet performs two sets with composer/multi-instrumentalist Jherek Bischoff at the Strand Theater’s Rueff Room in the group’s hometown of San Francisco tonight. The program, which is billed as “An Unusual Night of Music Making,” includes three works by Bischoff, two of which are San Francisco premieres and the other a world premiere, and a piece by Bryce Dessner, written specifically for Kronos. The night is presented by San Francisco Performances, as part of their new series PIVOT: New Adventures in the Performing Arts.

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Lake Street Dive continues its world tour in support of its Nonesuch debut album, Side Pony, with two sold-out shows at The Vic in Chicago, tonight and tomorrow.

The Seattle Times, reviewing the band’s show at the Neptune Theatre last week, praises the foursome across the board, finding Mike ‘McDuck’ Olson “impressive” on trumpet, noting that “bassist Bridget Kearney excelled on ‘Side Pony,’ and even sported that hairstyle,” and that "drummer Mike Calabrese ably kept the swing and made ‘Spectacular Failure’ a spectacular success.” Lead singer Rachael Price “is an undeniably great talent,” the Times concludes, who “could be a star in any room, in any decade or in any genre.”

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Audra McDonald brings her acclaimed portrayal of Billie Holiday from Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill to HBO on Saturday night. Filmed before a live audience at Café Brasil in New Orleans, the special features McDonald in her Tony-winning performance as Billie Holiday, telling the jazz icon’s life story through the songs that made her famous.

Returning to Broadway in Shuffle Along, McDonald is the subject of a feature in New York magazine's Best of New York issue titled "Shocking As It Is to Believe, the Theater May Be in a New Golden Age" and subtitled "One reason: Audra McDonald, Broadway's greatest voice, is back."

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Brad Mehldau concludes his solo European tour this weekend, with a sold-out show at the National Forum Hall in Wroclaw, Poland, on Saturday, and a performance at Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden in the Netherlands on Sunday. Mehldau goes back out on tour in April with the Brad Mehldau Trio, for a month-long tour of the United States and Europe.

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Natalie Merchant continues her run of sold-out shows with a performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York City tonight with music from her latest album, Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings. The album, released late last year on Nonesuch, features new recordings of the beloved songs of her multi-platinum solo debut album, Tigerlily.

“There was unfinished business,” Merchant told the San Francisco Chronicle in advance of her tour-launching show at the Warfield Theatre earlier this week. “It was my first album that I ever made without 10,000 Maniacs. I made it without a producer. The songs weren’t finished until I was standing at the microphone. I wanted to use the experience I got from the last 20 years.”

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Pat Metheny joins the Roy Haynes Band for Haynes’s 91st Birthday Celebration at the legendary Blue Note jazz club in New York City. The four night residency began last night and continues tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday, with two sets each night.

Metheny was a judge at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition held at Georgie Tech last week. He spoke with the Atlanta Journal Constitution about the intersection of art and technology, a topic of which he has been at the forefront throughout his career, not least on his Orchestrion project. “I have lived on the front lines of electricity and how it can be applied to music for almost 50 years now,” Metheny says. “I often joke that my first musical act was to plug it in.” You can read the interview here.

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Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters continue their March tour of the American South with concerts at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium in Louisiana tonight and a sold-out show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday.

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Joshua Redman joins the Swiss Jazz Orchestra at Kursaal Bern in Switzerland on Saturday, as part of Jazzfestival Bern.

Redman is currently up for three ECHO Jazz Awards: International Saxophone Instrumentalist of the Year for his work with James Farm on their latest album, City Folk; International Ensemble of the Year to James Farm itself for City Folk; and International Ensemble of the Year for The Bad Plus Joshua Redman and their self-titled debut album. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in Hamburg on May 26.

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Steve Reich gives a sold-out master class in composition at the Royal College of Music in London this afternoon. Reich, who joined the RCM Symphony Orchestra for a performance of his Clapping Music last night, will be joined in conversation by William Mival, the college’s Head of Composition as students work on working on his Cello and New York Counterpoints.

Reich received an Honorary Doctorate from the college's president, HRH Prince Charles, in a ceremony earlier this week, about which you can read in the Guardian.

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Rokia Traoré concludes her tour of France with an early evening show at L'Abbaye in Fontevraud on Saturday. Traoré, touring in support of her new album, Né So, continues onto Amsterdam, Brussels, and Geneva, before heading to the United States later this month.