Rostam brings music from his 2017 solo debut, Half-Light, to the Port of Los Angeles Outer Harbor in San Pedro, California, on Saturday, for a set at The Growlers Six music festival. He begins a European tour at the Pitchfork Avant-Garde Festival in Paris on Wednesday, stopping in Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, and London.

Half-Light was released on Nonesuch Records last month to critical acclaim. NPR calls the album "stunning," while the New Yorker says it's "a wondrous album, full of coy dreams and quiet yearning." The Daily Beast calls Half-Light "sublime ... one of the more extraordinary records of the year."

Dan Auerbach performs at the festival on Sunday evening. Mojo gives four stars to his new solo album, Waiting on a Song, out now on his label Easy Eye Sound (distributed by Nonesuch), saying it “confirms [Auerbach] as a craftsman of rare skill and few equals … Waiting on a Song is a triumph.”

The day before the festival, Auerbach and soul singer Robert Finley, whose album Goin’ Platinum!, is due December 8 on Easy Eye Sound, perform on A Prairie Home Companion. The show, hosted by Chris Thile, is being broadcast live from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium this weekend. Also on the episode are violinist Hilary Hahn and comedian/actor Nick Offerman; Fiona Apple joins Thile as his duet partner. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station; fans around the world can listen live online at prairiehome.org starting at 2:45 PM PT.

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Sam Amidon continues his autumn tour of Europe, in support of his new album, The Following Mountain, in Germany this weekend, playing Forum Freies Theater in Dusseldorf on Saturday and Nochtspeicher in Hamburg on Sunday.

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Devendra Banhart is in Germany this weekend as well, as part of WEEK-END Fest at Stadthalle Köln Mülheim in Cologne. He plays a DJ set tonight and joins German ensemble Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld and American composer / multi-instrumentalist Jherek Bischoff for a performance on Saturday.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk gives a solo recital at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Pikesville, Maryland, on Sunday. On the program, part of the Shriver Hall Concert Series, are works by Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, and Schumann. Denk spoke to the Baltimore Sun about the pieces on the program for an article you can read here.

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Rhiannon Giddens concludes the current California leg of her Freedom Highway tour, which began with her debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (a double bill with M. Ward) on Wednesday, with concerts at Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, presented by the Kuumbwa Jazz Center, tonight and Herbst Theatre at the War Memorial in San Francisco, presented by SFJAZZ, on Saturday. The Mercury News looks at Giddens’ work, her recent selection as a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, and this weekend’s two Bay Area concerts in an article you can read here.

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Richard Goode gives a recital at Olin Concert Hall at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, on Saturday. The pianist’s Grammy-nominated recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas, first released on Nonesuch in 1993, is available again in a new ten-CD box set. "An outstanding set," exclaims the New York Times. "It is hard to think of any other artist at once technically, temperamentally and intellectually as suited to the challenges of these sonatas."

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Tigran Hamasyan continues his European tour of music from his new album, An Ancient Observer, with a set at Frankfurt am Main tonight, as part of Deutsches Jazzfestival, and at L'Échandole in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, on Saturday.

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Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass, in true Halloween spirit, will be joined by musical director and keyboardist Mick Rossi to perform Glass’s 1999 score to Dracula at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Saturday. In 1998, Glass was commissioned to write a new score for the restoration of Bram Stoker’s classic 1931 film. The piece will be scored live to a screening of the film. The mini-tour began in Portland on Wednesday and culminates with a Halloween night performance at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.

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Portuguese singer Mariza continues a four-night residency at the SFJAZZ Center’s Joe Henderson Lab that began last night and continues through Sunday, with two performances each weekend night. Her US tour continues in the coming weeks with shows in Brooklyn, DC, New Jersey, Chicago, Boston, and New York. Mariza's album Mundo, which earned her the Songlines Best Artist of the Year award following its international release in 2015, was released in the US on Nonesuch in 2016. Songlines called it "an unalloyed triumph."

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Brad Mehldau is on the West Coast as well, giving solo recitals at Lewis & Clark College’s Agnes Flanagan Chapel in Portland tonight and Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara on Saturday. He has "emerged as a player with a stunning virtuosity and daring ability to mine far reaches of improvisation," raves All About Jazz. The Chicago Tribune writes: "Few contemporary jazz pianists command as devoted a following as Mehldau, whose incantatory solo performances vary freely among classical, jazz and pop influences."

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Pat Metheny, who was just named Guitarist of the Year in the DownBeat Readers Poll once again, continues his European tour with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh in Germany, playing at the Philharmonie in Cologne on Saturday and Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden on Sunday.

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Conor Oberst, with the Felice Brothers as his backing band, concludes his Salutations tour in the Midwest this weekend, with concerts at The Criterion in Oklahoma City tonight and The Blue Note in Columbia, Missouri, on Saturday.

The Independent gives Salutations a perfect five stars, calling it "the best work of the singer’s career." The Evening Standard, reviewing a recent London show, praises Oberst’s “remarkably honest performance,” writing that he “remains as compelling a songwriter as he ever has been.”

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Joshua Redman and his trio— bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—play at Filarmonica Banatul in Timisoara, Romania, on Saturday, as part of the Timisoara Jazz Festival, followed by a show at Sava Centar in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday. The trio heads to the UK, Switzerland, and Poland in the coming week.