This Halloween weekend, amidst the Greenwich Village parade and festivities, the Joshua Redman Trio, featuring Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums, which can be heard on Redman's recent Nonesuch release, Trios Live, concludes its six-night run at the famed Village Vanguard in New York City, with two sets each night, tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. The trio, which has been holding multi-night residencies throughout the US this fall, offers a four-night run at the Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis in the week ahead. 

The New York Times music critic Nate Chinen, in his review of Tuesday's opening set, runs through some of "the attributes that have kept Joshua Redman within a rare tier of jazz prominence for the last 20 years," settling on the "diligence, sensitivity and a kind of implicit trust" with his audience that helps set the saxophonist apart from his peers. And at the Vanguard, the crowd "locked into his frequency immediately." Read the review at nytimes.com.

Redman is also part of the collaborative band James Farm, whose sophomore album, City Folk, was released this week on Nonesuch Records. City Folk earns a perfect five stars from the Financial Times, which describes it as “ten beautifully crafted miniatures that rock with rhythm while holding virtuosity in check,” and four stars from the Evening Standard, which calls James Farm “a jazz supergroup with an indie disposition … four crack musicians and improvisers whose fierce grooves and synergy make for spine-tingling listening.”

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John Adams’s 1991 opera The Death of Klinghoffer receives another performance at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City on Saturday, following the Met premiere last week.

Coincidentally, the composer’s fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine—recorded almost 30 years ago for Nonesuch Records—opens the programs of two different orchestras this weekend: the Colorado Symphony, led by Marin Alsop, at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver on Saturday and Sunday, and the Paducah Symphony Orchestra at the Carson Four Rivers Center in Paducah, Kentucky, on Saturday.

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The Black Keys take their Turn Blue World Tour to the Pacific Northwest, performing at the Moda Centers in Portland, Oregon, tonight and the KeyArena in Seattle on Saturday. The current leg of the tour, which continues in California in the days ahead, features supporting sets by special guest Jake Bugg.

The Calgary Herald, reviewing the band’s recent show at the Saddledome, lauds the “strength of the songs, and the tight, taut, tank-like performances of tunes that were written to blow minds and speakers with equal disregard and abandon.”

You can see what The Black Keys say about life on the road in a new video, directed by longtime Black Keys creative director Michael Carney, here.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic last night to kick off a four-concert run at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which continues this morning, Saturday evening, and Sunday afternoon. Led by Esa-Pekka Salonen, the program comprises Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony No. 3.

“Denk’s Mozart, which he conducted from the piano, was as graceful as it was turbulent,” writes the Minneapolis Star Tribune in a review of the pianist’s performance of Concerto No. 20 with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra last weekend. “He punched home the work’s Beethovenesque implications while maintaining an easy, fluent flow to the passagework. The big first-movement cadenza showed impressive vehemence, while the slow movement, a Romance, was cast in long lyrical lines rich in sentiment yet effortlessly elegant.”

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On the other side of the US, pianist Richard Goode performs an all-Beethoven program, titled Beethoven: The Last Word, at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston on Saturday, as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston. The program includes selections from Bagatelles, Op. 119, and three late sonatas—No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109; No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110; and No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111—all of which Goode famously recorded for the Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas box set on Nonesuch Records in 1993.

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Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters are on BBC Two's Later ... with Jools Holland tonight, performing "Little Maggie," from the new album, lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar, which was just named one of the ten best albums of 2014 by Songlines magazine, plus "House of Love" and "Whole Lotta Love." They kick off a sold-out tour of the UK and Ireland on 9 November.

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Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau continue their duo tour of Europe at the Teatro G. Verdi in Salerno, Italy, tonight and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam on Sunday. The Nonesuch Records label mates perform in Prague, Vienna, and Hamburg in the days ahead.