The Bad Plus Joshua Redman wraps up the first leg of its US fall tour featuring music from the group's self-titled debut album with three shows in the Northeast this weekend, at Zankel Music Center in Saratoga Springs, New York, tonight, Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts, on Saturday, and the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Sunday.

The Columbus Dispatch’s Curtis Schieber, reviewing one recent show and noting the group’s “uncommon singularity, says that “in this inspired, egalitarian community, all four are formidable composers … Though the Bad Plus is otherwise a self-contained unit that rises on the level of communication between the three members, Redman’s addition was as natural as could be.”

Joshua Redman joins with his fellow James Farm bandmates for a tour or Europe starting in Zurich on November 2. He reunites with The Bad Plus for the next leg of their tour, out West, starting in Boulder on December 2.

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Laurie Anderson’s new film, Heart of a Dog, continues its theatrical debut at the Film Forum in New York City this weekend and includes a Q&A with Anderson at a screening each day this weekend. The Film Forum run continues through November 3, after which Heart of a Dog heads to theaters across the United States. The New York Times calls it a “dreamy, drifty and altogether lovely movie,” and New York calls it "one of the most moving and provocative films you’ll see this year.”

Today marks the release of the film’s soundtrack on Nonesuch Records.

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Jeremy Denk gives two solo recitals this weekend, playing to a sold-out Kimmel Center in Philadelphia tonight, followed by Union College in Schenectady, New York, on Sunday. Both concerts feature an eclectic program including works by Bach, Byrd, Bolcom, Stravinsky, Schumann, and more. The Washington Post, reviewing Denk’s performance at the Kennedy Center earlier this month, praised his ability for “expressing virtuosity, humor, nostalgia and experimental daring” as well as his “inimitable sensibility … alive to the work’s poetry, wit, impulsiveness and off-beat yet irresistible charm.”

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Lianne La Havas heads south to round out her North American tour, with a show at Emo’s in Austin, Texas tonight and then at Center Stage in Atlanta on Sunday, performing songs from her new album, Blood, and her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?. The month-long tour comes to a close at Exit/In in Nashville on Monday.

During a run of tour dates in Southern California earlier this week, La Havas stopped by KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic to perform a seven-song set, which you can watch here.

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Audra McDonald plays the Pantages Theater at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts in Tacoma, Washington, on Sunday.

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Brad Mehldau, following the world premiere of his Three Pieces for Piano After Bach in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall last night, joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis for two nights at The Town Hall in New York, tonight and Saturday.

Brad Mehldau's 8-LP box set 10 Years Solo Live, released last week on Nonesuch, "contains some of the most impressive pianism Mr. Mehldau has captured on record," exclaims the New York Times's Nate Chinen. It "also confirms that his pristine technique and prismatic elaboration are distinctive traits unto themselves," closing with a performance that is "an astonishment even by his lofty standards." Jazzwise, in a five-star review, calls it "a monumental achievement, and one of the most rewarding solo piano collections of the 21st century so far."

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Randy Newman completes his tour of the Netherlands, before heading to the UK, with a show at De Oosterpoort in Groningen tonight.

Newman spoke with the Telegraph about a broad range of topics, from Putin to Paul McCartney, in advance of next week’s tour of the UK and Ireland. You can read the feature article here.

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Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, a core band featuring several of the original musicians from Buena Vista Social Club, continue their victorious "Adios" tour, with a show at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta on Saturday.

The group made history last week, when they became the first Cuba-based act to perform at The White House in half a century, playing for guests at a Hispanic Heritage Month reception with President Obama.

The original Buena Vista Social Club album, which became a cultural phenomenon and helped introduce Cuba's rich musical heritage and pre-revolutionary past to the world, will be reissued on vinyl by World Circuit Records on October 30 and is available to pre-order in North America in the Nonesuch Store.

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Rokia Traoré concludes her four-night run at the Roslyn Packer Theater in Sydney, Australia, presented by the Sydney Festival, performing music and playing the role of Barbary in the Othello-inspired Desdemona, her theatrical collaboration with Toni Morrison and director Peter Sellars. Performances take place tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Sunday’s performance will be followed by a free Artist Talk, in which Traoré and Sellars speak with Robyn Archer, the former Artistic Director of the National Festival of Australian Theatre and the Adelaide and Melbourne Festivals.

The Sydney Morning Herald’s Cameron Woodhead, on hand for last weekend’s residency in Melbourne, says: “The soul of the piece lies in the bewitching songs of Malian vocalist Rokia Traoré.” He praises her “subtle, meditative and transporting music,” stating “It's enough to inspire a trance; not of wounded rage like the title character in Shakespeare's tragedy, but of the profound interconnectedness of life.”

As recently noted in the Nonesuch Journal, Traoré will release her new album on Nonesuch in early 2016. Further details will be announced shortly, as will upcoming tour dates.