Saxophonist Joshua Redman is the showcase artist at the 2016 Monterey Jazz Festival taking place on various stages at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in California this weekend. As such, he performs three times, in three different quartet iterations, kicking things off with Still Dreaming, a quartet featuring trumpeter Ron Miles, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Brian Blade, at Dizzy’s Den tonight. Redman formed Still Dreaming in homage to his father, the late Dewey Redman, and his role in the classic Ornette Coleman alumni quartet Old and New Dreams.

Redman reteams with The Bad Plus, with whom he released the eponymous The Bad Plus Joshua Redman on Nonesuch last year, for a set on the Jimmy Lyons stage on Saturday. Their album together has been hailed as a “knockout" by the New York Times. It's "a roaring and beautiful summit meeting," says NPR.

Finally, Redman concludes the weekend with his own Quartet—pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—back at Dizzy’s Den on Sunday. Redman toured extensively with this quartet over the summer, including a six-night residency at New York City’s Blue Note. The New York Times said: “Joshua Redman is one of the most visible jazz musicians of the last 15 years, which says something not just about his natural flow as an improviser and his command as a bandleader, but also about his willingness to use words…to represent jazz to the outside world.”

Nearness, the debut duo album from Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, was released on Nonesuch last week. The two kick off a world tour together next weekend.

Also performing at Monterey Jazz is Redman and Mehldau’s label-mate Pat Metheny, currently on tour with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh. The musicians hit the Jimmy Lyons stage on Sunday, following a set at Thornton Winery in Temecula, California, on Saturday. The Guardian calls this collaboration a "tour de force from an improv king … The rapport within this newly minted band was unmistakable."

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John Adams led the Berlin Philharmonic and violinist Leila Josefowicz in the German premiere of his new dramatic symphony, Scheherazade.2, last night, and continues the program, which also includes his Harmonielehre, tonight and tomorrow at the Berliner Philharmonie.

Nonesuch releases the first recording of Scheherazade.2 on September 30. Josefowicz, for whom the piece was written, performs it on the album with the St. Louis Symphony led by Music Director David Robertson. Scheherazade.2 is available to pre-order now on iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store.

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The Arcs play the Palomino Festival at Hall’s Island Park in Minneapolis on Saturday.

The band released its debut album, Yours, Dreamily, last year on Nonesuch to critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone saying it "takes what Auerbach does at his best, in and out of the [Black] Keys—confessional, texturally enriched blues propelled with garage-rock force—and adds a riveting jump in eccentricity." The live show has been described by the New York Times as a "rock and soul revue that can knock out Motown beats, fuzz-toned boogies or slow-grooving R&B."

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Devendra Banhart takes part in the free Wired Next Fest weekend of events on the theme of beauty in the historic Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy, on Saturday night. He will discuss his art and perform songs from his forthcoming album, Ape in Pink Marble, out next Friday. Other participants from the arts, sciences, and politics include Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, film director Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), photographer Oliviero Toscani, and chef Massimo Bottura, among others.

Earlier that morning, Banhart can be heard on Mary Anne Hobbs’s show on BBC Radio 6 Music, discussing his new album. Banhart is the subject of a feature profile in the New York Observer, which says of Ape in Pink Marble: "Banhart has crafted some gorgeous new sonic architectures." You can read what he has to say at observer.com.

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Teresa Cristina, in the midst of a world tour as special guest of Caetano Veloso, performs her own headlining show to celebrate the recent release of her live album and DVD, Canta Cartola, at Teatro NET SP in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday. Cristina is the subject of a feature profile in today's Público newspaper arts supplement in Portugal, which gives the album four stars; you can read the article, in Portuguese, at publico.pt.

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Michael Daves plays back-to-back duo shows in the South with legendary banjoist Tony Trischka: at the Red Clady Music Foundry in Duluth, Georgia, his home state, on Saturday, and the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Bristol, Virginia, on Sunday.

Trischka makes a guest appearance on Daves’s new double album, Orchids and Violence, released earlier this year. The album pairs straightforward interpretations of bluegrass tunes with experimental rock versions of the songs; Trischka contributes to the latter disc. The New York Times called the album "a roots-music master class, a brilliant example of old modes reinhabited with flair."

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Jeremy Denk gives a solo piano recital entitled Medieval to Modern, with a repertoire spanning six centuries of Western music—from the Medieval and Renaissance eras through Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms to Stockhausen and Philip Glass—at Wigmore Hall in London on Saturday. He performs a similarly eclectic recital of works by Joplin, Stravinsky, Schubert, and more at Perth Concert Hall in Scotland on Sunday.

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Lianne La Havas continues her tour as special guest of R&B artist and singer, songwriter Leon Bridges, at Minglewood Hall in Memphis tonight. She plays her own headlining show at the Civic Theatre in New Orleans on Saturday before joining back up with Bridges for a sold-out show at the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas in Bridges’ home state of Texas on Sunday.

La Havas's Grammy Award–nominated second album, Blood, was released last year to critical acclaim; Pitchfork called it "dynamic and poignantly self-assured in its introspection … an almost seamless album."

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Lake Street Dive, which resumed its North American tour at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last night, heads to Canada for two festival sets: the Toronto Urban Roots Fest at Fort York on Saturday, and City Folk at The Great Lawn at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa on Sunday. The band’s live show, which features songs from its Nonesuch debut album, Side Pony, was recently praised by the Kansas City Star, which calls it an "upscale fusion of pop, soul and jazz," noting the group's "warm, organic fusion of four varied talents with a concerted affection: for music that provokes and entertains."

It was just announced that Lake Street Dive will join label mate Chris Thile, the new host of A Prairie Home Companion, as special guests on the show's season premiere on October 15, also with Jack White.