Jeremy Denk celebrates today’s release of his new album, Ives Denk, and the 150th anniversary of composer Charles Ives’s birth on Sunday with a sold-out concert for PianoPalooza! at the Portland Conservatory of Music, in Portland, Maine, on Sunday. The program, Celebrating 150 Years of Charles Ives, features Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 2—a remastered recording of which can be heard on the new album—along with works by Beethoven, Joplin, Gottschalk, Nina Simone, and William Bolcom. Also on Ives Denk are the composer's four violin sonatas, performed with violinist Stefan Jackiw, as well as a remastered version of his First Sonata. "Mr. Denk's playing exuded affinity for Ives and vivid imagination," the New York Times says of a performance. You can get the album and hear it here.

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Timo Andres joins pianists Aaron Diehl and Jenny Lin in performing Philip Glass’ Études at First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Connecticut, on Sunday, as part of The Glass House’s 75th Anniversary celebrations. Andres’s latest album, The Blind Banister, was released earlier this year on Nonesuch. “Original and arresting,” says the Guardian’s four-star album review. “It’s a highly accomplished disc all round.” He can be heard performing Glass’s Evening Song No. 2, written for former Nonesuch President Bob Hurwitz, on the album I Still Play.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, brings music from their new album, The Past Is Still Alive, to the Salt Shed in their new hometown of Chicago on Saturday, as part of the My Sweet Midwest festival. Segarra performed the album track “Buffalo” on the Kelly Clarkson Show and released a video for the song, which was filmed inside Chicago’s Field Museum, last week; you can watch both here.

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The Magnetic Fields kicked off the US fall leg of their 69 Love Songs 25th Anniversary tour at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC, last night, with performances continuing through Sunday. The concerts feature the full album, all 69 songs, over two nights at each tour stop. “A 172-minute indie rock spectacular,” says the London Times in its review of the band’s shows at Edinburgh earlier this year. “As the crowd erupted into applause and even a few cautious whoops, there was a shared feeling of having witnessed a spectacular of the first order.”

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Portuguese singer Mariza performs at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday. Mariza has released two albums in the US on Nonesuch: Mariza Sings Amália, celebrating the 20th anniversary of her career and the centenary of the late Queen of Fado, Amália Rodrigues, and Mundo, which earned her the Songlines Award for Best Artist of the Year.

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Percussionist, producer, and composer Makaya McCraven is at BRIC House in Brooklyn tonight, speaking on the Next Jazz Legacy panel moderated by Marcus J. Moore before performing—with drummers Daniel Villareal and Terri Lyne Carrington, saxophonists Caroline Davis, Sarah Hanahan, and Ebban and Ephraim Dorsey—as part of BRIC JazzFest Night 2. McCraven then travels south to perform at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, on Saturday, and the Sycamore & Oak in Washington, DC, on Sunday. His latest album, In These Times, made several year's best album lists, including those of Pitchfork (“a high-water mark”), NPR Music's Nate Chinen (“the culmination of a years-long experiment in groove ... just might be Makaya McCraven's manifesto”), and Treble (“McCraven's masterwork”).

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Brad Mehldau and his trio—bassist Felix Moseholm and drummer Jorge Rossy—play a sold-out set at Flagey in Brussels tonight. Mehldau released two new solo albums, After Bach II and Après Fauré, on Nonesuch earlier this year. The Associated Press says: “Mehldau’s variations are bracing and daring, breathtaking and beautiful, spiritual and psychedelic. Blue notes emerge from the contrapuntal complexity as he tests the limits of Bach’s music, showing there are none.”

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Mandy Patinkin and his wife Kathryn Grody host a conversation moderated by their son Gideon Grody-Patinkin at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas, on Saturday. Patinkin will be continuing his Being Alive tour—a collection of his favorite Broadway and classic American tunes from the likes of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Harry Chapin, and more—next month.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—perform at Leipzig Opera in Germany on Saturday as part of Leipziger Jazztage festival, and Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden on Sunday. Salvant was named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, and her latest album, Mélusine, made the Jazz Albums of the Year list. “The massively creative vocalist delivers a tour de force in several languages recounting the legend of Mélusine,” the magazine says.

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Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion perform music from their 2024 album, Rectangles and Circumstance, at Lawrence Memorial Chapel in Appleton, Wisconsin, today, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on Saturday. Ringdown, Shaw’s duo with Danni Lee Parpan, perform as well, both on the Rectangles and Circumstance track “Slow Motion,” which the duo co-wrote and performed on the album, and in a mini-set during the shows. Sō Percussion can also be heard on Shaw's original score to Ken Burns's upcoming documentary LEONARDO da VINCI, out next week, along with Attacca Quartet, Roomful of Teeth, and John Patitucci. You can hear three tracks from that album here.

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Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) performs music from her latest album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, at the Lowbrow Palace in El Paso, Texas, tonight, supporting the band Crumb on their North American tour. Released last year on Nonesuch, Sorry I Haven’t Called is an album “that chases joy at every turn,” says Dork in its four-star review, and “cycles through urgent dance, fiery indie, and feel-good pop with a resilient sense of euphoria underpinning every joyous moment.” “To unspool Tamko’s music is a bountiful reward,” says  Paste. “Especially on Sorry I Haven’t Called, the work is dazzling and stirring.”

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Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams is in California, performing music from her new album, Acadia, at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, tonight, and Vina Robles Amphitheatre in Paso Robles, on Saturday, supporting Michael Kiwanuka and Brittany Howard on their North American tour. "Yasmin Williams is one of the most inventive guitar players of the last decade, an artist devoted to deploying seemingly every technique imaginable to coax new sounds and ideas out of her instrument,” Pitchfork exclaims in its review of Acadia. “Bright and gregarious yet focused, the inventive guitarist’s latest release draws on the warm camaraderie of her collaborators for an imaginative expansion of her sound." You can listen to Acadia here.