Paul Is Alive and Queen Is Back

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September

DIET COKE WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL I shudder at the association between women and diet soda, but maybe jazz audiences are well trained enough to ignore corporate logos at concerts. The festival continues through the month with concerts including Marian McPartland playing solo piano; the singers Tessa Souter, Claudia Acuña, Karrin Allyson, Nancy King and Nnenna Freelon; the big band Diva; the drummer Terri Lyne Carrington; and the pianists Joanne Brackeen and Bertha Hope. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Began Sept. 6; through Oct. 2.

JAZZ GALLERY 10TH ANNIVERSARY One of the happier developments in the New York jazz scene has been the flourishing of the Jazz Gallery, a not-for-profit space that has regular performances and exhibits visual art. It celebrates 10 years in business all through this fall. The concerts include Roy Hargrove with the Detroit trumpeter Marcus Belgrave tonight; the Oliver Lake-John Hicks Big Band, Sept. 22 to 24; a vocalist series including Gretchen Parlato on Oct. 6 and 7 and Andy Bey on Oct. 8; Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Oct. 27 to 29; and the Jeff Tain Watts group from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. On the walls through the season will be "Los Musicos en Cuba," a group exhibition of photographs of Cuban musicians.

PAUL MOTIAN-BILL FRISELL-JOE LOVANO TRIO These three great jazz musicians have always sounded as if they're doing, simultaneously, whatever they want in this unpretentiously abstract band; quietly, over two decades, it has become a major influence in jazz. Village Vanguard. Through Sept. 18.

LENE LOVICH Another intriguing female voice from early-80's new wave has reappeared; at Joe's Pub, she'll be playing music from a new album, "Shadows and Dust," but probably won't get away without performing "Say When" and "Lucky Number." Tomorrow.

DEVENDRA BANHART "Cripple Crow" tosses forth 22 new songs, in English and Spanish, in Mr. Banhart's outsider-folk style: spare, intimate, quivering, shaggy-dog, a little disturbing. Tuesday. XL.

DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER Having been both a jazz singer and a theater performer, she has gotten a second foothold with American audiences, but she doesn't want you to forget that she has a relationship with France, too, where she has lived and worked. On "J'ai Deux Amours," she sings French love songs. Tuesday. Sovereign Artists.

CAVE IN "Perfect Pitch Black," the Massachusetts band's new album, makes the negotiation between hard-core punk's scraping textures and straightforward, radio-friendly alternative rock seem easy. Tuesday. Hydra Head.

TRACY CHAPMAN Five years in the making, "Where You Live" is the mildly political singer-songwriter's return. Tuesday. Elektra/Atlantic.

DANDY WARHOLS Featured in the recent documentary "Dig!" as the functional, ambitious band, in contradistinction to their friends in the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Dandy Warhols keep rolling with their meat-and-potatoes, droney psychedelic rock; the new album is "Odditorium or Warlords of Mars." Tuesday. Capitol.

GEORGE JONES A new album of songs that Mr. Jones wished he had recorded when they were first written - including Bobby Bare's "Detroit City" and Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" - as well as a new version of one of his own best songs, "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Tuesday. Bandit.

B. B. KING Most great artists don't retire, and for his 80th birthday one of the best improvisers in American music has put together a new batch of collaborations called "80" with a fairly predictable crew - John Mayer, Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton, among others. Tuesday. Geffen.

LIL' KIM To be released six days before she goes to jail for lying to a grand jury, "Naked Truth" is expectedly unrepentant; the first single, "Shut Up," takes an I've-heard-it-all tone. "All this petty chitter-chatter," she says, "only made my pockets fatter." Tuesday. Atlantic.

PAUL McCARTNEY In his early family-man days, Sir Paul could scare up a song with odds and ends; think of "Ram," with ukulele, harp, Fender Rhodes piano, hand claps and vocals. He's gone back to that idea of the personal and immediate, playing most of the assorted instruments on "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," recorded with the producer Nigel Godrich. Tuesday. Capitol.

EVAN PARKER ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE "The Eleventh Hour." The English soprano saxophonist, one of the leaders of the European jazz avant-garde since the 60's, continues his fascination with real-time sound processing: he and a few other members of his 11-member ensemble play acoustic instruments, while others warp the music digitally, in their own form of improvisation. Tuesday. ECM.

QUEEN WITH PAUL RODGERS Some pretty big current rock bands seem to want to channel Queen, including System of a Down and the Darkness, and the jukebox musical using the band's hits, "We Will Rock You," has been packing them in around the world. "Return of the Champions" is the band's new live album, with Paul Rodgers from Bad Company replacing Freddie Mercury as the frontman. Tuesday. Hollywood. (The band will perform Oct. 16 at the Continental Airlines Arena.)

REV RUN The first solo album by the former member of Run-D.M.C. who became a preacher: "Distortion." Tuesday. Def Jam.

SIGUR ROS "Takk," which means "thanks" in Icelandic, is more of the band's recognizable floating, orchestral dream-rock. Tuesday. Geffen.

MERCEDES SOSA Now 70, Ms. Sosa was a heroine of Argentine music for about 40 years, through the dark days of her country's military dictatorship. Her new album is "Corazon Libre." Tuesday. Universal Classics.

BOBO STENSON TRIO A subtle, lyrical Swedish pianist who has recorded on ECM since 1971, Mr. Stenson has made a record in New York for the first time. Paul Motian is the drummer on "Goodbye," with Anders Jormin on bass. Tuesday. ECM.

BOUBACAR TRAORÉ The Malian guitarist's new album, "Kongo Magni," makes his case as well as anything he's ever recorded, with harmonica and accordion and balafon; it suggests that the greatest contemporary acoustic blues may be African. Tuesday. World Village.

PAUL WALL A white rapper from Houston, Mr. Wall has had considerable success turning out mixtapes in the "screwed and chopped" style (which sound like 45 r.p.m. records played at 33) and making gold caps for other rappers' teeth in the jewelry shop he co-owns. But a good single ("Sittin' Sidewayz") suggests that "The People's Champ," his first major-label album, might persuade him to leave his day jobs. Tuesday. Swishahouse/Asylum/Atlantic.

CHARLIE WILSON The singer from the raw-funk 80's group the Gap Band is getting the R. Kelly production treatment, a sweetly reviving process for an oldies-circuit performer; it did wonders for the Isley Brothers. "Charlie, Last Name Wilson" includes guest appearances by Pharrell and Snoop Dogg. Tuesday. Jive.

TRISHA YEARWOOD It's taken the Top 40 country singer longer than usual to complete "Jasper County"; meanwhile, she became engaged in May to Garth Brooks. Tuesday. MCA.

DAVE BRUBECK A new six-minute choral work called "The Commandments," a musical setting of the Ten Commandments, is the surprise at the middle of Mr. Brubeck's concert, which is part of the New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival. The concert will open with his long-running quartet and end with his 50-minute oratorio, "The Gates of Justice." (For details about the festival, see www.oyhoo.com.) Wednesday. Rose Theater.

THE BAD PLUS The three members of the Bad Plus occupy an imaginative middle ground between jazz and rock, playing seriously and well even when they're winding us up a little bit - on the band's new album, "Suspicious Activity?," it covers the "Chariots of Fire" theme. Sept. 20. Columbia. (The Bad Plus will perform at the Village Vanguard Sept. 20 to 25.)

BROADCAST "Tender Buttons." The new album by the English retro minimalist-pop band, fronted by the singer Trish Keenan; since its last album, the group has shrunk to a two-piece. Sept. 20. Warp.

RYAN CABRERA "You Stand Watching" is the second album by the young Dave Matthews-influenced singer-songwriter. Sept. 20. Atlantic.

COHEED AND CAMBRIA When you tie your music to a style, you might get a few good years. When you tie your music to a fantasy storyline, as Coheed and Cambria have, you could go on forever. The latest installment in the group's unfolding prog-emo tale is "Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV: Vol. 1. From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness." Sept. 20. Columbia.

CURUMIN One of the smarter young musicians in São Paolo, Curumin is a fully paid-up scholar of both Brazilian and American funk from the 70's; put them together and you get "Achados e Perdidos," his first solo album. Sept. 20. Quannum Projects.

DAVE DOUGLAS The jazz trumpeter has crafted a two-disc salute (music on one, film on the other) to the art of the actor Fatty Arbuckle called "Keystone"; the music, with a band including the saxophonist Marcus Strickland, the keyboardist Jamie Saft and the turntablist DJ Olive, was written to be performed in front of Arbuckle's comic short films, and the first such performance will be at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, N.Y., on Oct. 1. (For tickets to the performance, call 1-866-9-PCA-TIX, or go to tickets.paramountcenter.org.) The album is being released Sept. 20. Greenleaf Music.

HERLIN RILEY After 10 years of a steady and enviable job, Mr. Riley, one of the greatest jazz drummers of our time, has left the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra; let's hope that means we'll hear more of him around town. In the meantime comes "Cream of the Crescent," one of his rare solo records, with a small band taken from the ranks of the orchestra. Sept. 20. Criss Cross.

'TANGO: THE ART HISTORY OF LOVE' A new book by the Yale anthropologist and music and art scholar Robert Farris Thompson, and the surprise is that it isn't on West Africa, the subject that has supported his academic reputation. It is about tango, and especially the little-explored Afro-Argentine roots of the music. Sept. 20. Pantheon Books.

T. I. PRESENTS THE P$C The four-man crew Pimp Squad Click, led by the rapper T. I., comes from Atlanta; its music featured prominently in the soundtrack to the recent film "Hustle & Flow." The group's new album is "25 to Life." Sept. 20. Atlantic.

JOHN COLTRANE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION There have been endless club-gig homages to the master - at least around this time of year, his birthday (had he lived, this Sept. 23 would be his 79th birthday), if not every couple of months. But few have looked as intriguing as this one. Joe Lovano, one of Coltrane's less obvious stylistic descendants, on tenor saxophone; Steve Kuhn, who played with Coltrane for a while in 1960, on piano; Henry Grimes, old-wave bassist, and Lonnie Plaxico, new-wave bassist, splitting the gig; and Andrew Cyrille on drums. Sept. 21 to 24. Birdland.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER'S KANSAS CITY FESTIVAL Starting this season's series of celebrations of place, Jazz at Lincoln Center starts with a little Kansas City examination: "K.C. and the Count," tracing the boundaries around Count Basie's early years, from Sept. 22 to 24, Rose Theater; "K.C. Boogie-Woogie," featuring Bobby Watson's Boogie-Woogie Jump Band, also Sept. 22 to 24, Allen Room.

LURA Like Cesaria Evora, but of a younger generation, Lura is a singer of Cape Verdean music, which blends Portuguese and West African roots; this is her first New York concert. Sept. 25. Peter Norton Symphony Space.

KEITH JARRETT A solo piano concert made Mr. Jarrett's name worldwide 30 years ago when it was put on record as "The Köln Concert." This month he gives his first solo performance in North America in a decade; it comes after a remarkable new record of solo improvisations, "Radiance." Sept. 26. Carnegie Hall.

'NO DIRECTION HOME: BOB DYLAN' The two-part Dylan documentary directed by Martin Scorsese, with troves of little-seen images and new interviews. Sept. 26 and 27. PBS.

RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS From an almost ludicrously productive singer-songwriter, a new collection of songs with a countrypolitan production, including piano, violin and strings, "Jacksonville City Nights." Sept. 27. Lost Highway/Universal.

BIG STAR "In Space" is the old Memphis rock band's first album in 27 years, with the founding members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens plus Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies. Sept. 27. Rykodisc.

BUN B Half of the hip-hop duo UGK (Underground Kingz), closely associated with the Houston label Rap-a-Lot, Bun B has been a local star since the late 80's, but this is the big moment for Houston hip-hop. "Trill" is his first solo album. Sept. 27. Rap-a-Lot/WEA.

BILL CHARLAP AND SANDY STEWART One of the day's best jazz pianists and his mother, a cabaret singer and the widow of the songwriter Moose Charlap, have collaborated on a piano-and-vocals record called "Love Is Here to Stay." Sept. 27. Blue Note.

MILES DAVIS From the band that made the album "Live/Evil" - Davis playing trumpet through a wah-wah pedal, Gary Bartz on saxophones, Keith Jarrett on electric keyboards, John McLaughlin on electric guitar, Michael Henderson on electric bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums and Airto Moreira on percussion - here now is five hours of unreleased music from that time, dark and funky and full-speed-ahead. "The Cellar Door Sessions 1970" is a six-disc box set, with essays looking back on that time by every living musician in the group. Sept. 27. Sony Legacy.

BRAD MEHLDAU The lyrical and adventurous jazz pianist has been changing his routine over the past few years with solo recitals and collaborations; on "Day Is Done" he gets back to the trio format, which made his name 10 years ago. Sept. 27. Nonesuch.

THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET WITH JOHN COLTRANE One of the great finds of jazz archaeology in the past year was this 1957 performance by a first-tier, short-lived and little-recorded band. It has been turned into an album, "Live at Carnegie Hall," that transcends jazz-scholar interests; it's great music. Sept. 27. Blue Note.

JELLY ROLL MORTON The greatest bragger in jazz, and its first genius composer, Morton gave rambling, talking, singing, myth-building performances in front of Alan Lomax's microphone at the Library of Congress in 1938, and they now get their full due. "The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax" contains eight CD's, presenting the sessions in their complete original running order. Sept. 27. Rounder.

SEAN PAUL The producers of the Jamaican reggae-dancehall-hip-hop star's fizzy third album, "The Trinity," include the dancehall kingpin Lenky Marsden. Sept. 27. VP/Atlantic.

'PROGRESSIONS: 100 YEARS OF JAZZ GUITAR' From Vess Ossman in 1906 - on banjo, actually - to Bill Frisell, and stopping along the way at Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Pat Metheny and Sonny Sharrock, this four-disc set astutely gathers the evidence of the guitar's importance to jazz - and, importantly, from many different labels. Sept. 27. Sony Legacy.

JENNY SCHEINMAN Ms. Scheinman is a violinist who has been working out her own marvelous path through jazz from the 1920's and the 1960's and possibly the future - as well as calypso, French musette, Brazilian choro and about 10 other genres. In doing so, she has made remarkably cohesive albums; "12 Songs," with a septet including Bill Frisell on guitar, is her best so far. Sept. 27. Cryptogramophone.

SOULFLY The latest slab of rage and tribalism from the metal band led by the Brazilian-American musician Max Cavalera is "Dark Ages." Sept. 27. Roadrunner.

GRETCHEN WILSON Sly and just real enough, Ms. Wilson blew minds last year with her first album; her second, "All Jacked Up," includes a duet with Merle Haggard called "Politically Uncorrect," and a version of Billie Holiday's "Good Morning Heartache." Sept. 27. Sony Nashville. Click here for a related article.

NEIL YOUNG A countryish album of new music by Mr. Young with a backup band including the steel guitarist Ben Keith and the keyboardist Spooner Oldham; the CD release will include an extra DVD showing the making of the album. Sept. 27. Reprise.

'JAZZ CON SALSA' Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by the pianist Arturo O'Farrill, has started out strong in its first couple of years. The list of rather progressive-minded guest soloists - Greg Osby, Joe Lovano and Lew Soloff - tells you that this isn't an ordinary Latin-jazz repertory orchestra; then again, is there any other Latin-jazz repertory orchestra? Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Rose Theater.

JUELZ SANTANA The youngest member of the Harlem-based crew called the Diplomats (or Dipset), led by the rapper Cam'ron, Juelz Santana has been a straight-shooting favorite on mixtapes for a few years; his second album is "What the Game's Been Missing." September. Def Jam.

October

ACROSS THE NARROWS FESTIVAL A heavyweight alternative-rock festival unlike any we've ever seen here - actually two days of it, with concerts going on simultaneously in two different boroughs. The first day presents the Pixies, Gang of Four, Built to Spill and Rilo Kiley, among others, at Keyspan Park in Coney Island. At Richmond County Bank Ballpark on Staten Island, the bill includes the Killers, Interpol, the New York Dolls and Tegan and Sara. On the second day: Beck and Belle and Sebastian in Brooklyn, and Oasis and Jet in Staten Island. (Details at www.acrossthenarrows.com.) Oct. 1 and 2.

FIONA APPLE The upshot of the controversy over last year's Internet-leaked tracks and an album that seemed to be stalled or censored or at least unfairly treated by her record company was this: a new producer, a (mostly) new batch of songs, and a finely whetted public appetite for any kind of Fiona Apple record, never mind that "Extraordinary Machine" seems to be a good one. Oct. 4. Epic.

FRANZ FERDINAND "You Could Have It So Much Better ... With Franz Ferdinand" is the second album by the miraculously successful Scottish postpunk band, which has said it aimed only to make music girls could dance to. Oct. 4. Domino/Epic.

MUGISON "Mugimama, Is This Monkey Music?" Get ready for another Icelandic singer-songwriter; he's trippy and melancholic and close-miked, singing as if he's confiding in you. Oct. 4. Ipecac.

SINEAD O'CONNOR Ms. O'Connor has made "Throw Down Your Arms," a full-length album of roots-reggae protest songs, including Winston Rodney's "Door Peep," Lee Perry's "Curly Locks" and Peter Tosh's "Downpressor Man." (Bob Marley's "War," which she famously performed on "Saturday Night Live" in 1992 before ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II, is the last track.) Production and rhythm-section playing are by the irreproachable Sly and Robbie, and Ms. O'Connor's voice is as strong and clear as ever. Oct. 4. Sanctuary.

LIZ PHAIR "Somebody's Miracle" continues the second phase of Ms. Phair's career, in which an indie-rock heroine comes to grips with commercial pop aesthetics. Oct. 4. Capitol.

MARIZA One of the most exciting young Portuguese fado singers, in the tradition of Amalia Rodrigues, performs at Carnegie Hall for the first time. Oct. 7.

NICKEL CREEK A neo-bluegrass band, incorporating rock songcraft, that gets better all the time. Oct. 7. Nokia Theater.

ROSCOE MITCHELL QUARTET WITH MUHAL RICHARD ABRAMS The saxophonist has been one of jazz's greatest conceptualists for four decades; in this special performance, along with his regular band, he collaborates with Mr. Abrams, the pianist who was a founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (A.A.C.M.) The concert is part of "Ancient to the Future," a series this fall and winter presented by Ars Nova Workshop and International House, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the A.A.C.M. Oct. 8. International House, Philadelphia.

GANG OF FOUR "Return the Gift." After the true excitement of their reunion shows this year, here is a more dubious proposition: a disc of old Gang of Four tracks, newly rerecorded by the band, and a second disc of Gang of Four songs remixed by the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ladytron and Tony Kanal of No Doubt. Oct. 10. V2 Records.

JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET It's been circulated a little bit as a bootleg over the years, but only in parts, and with inferior sound. If you're into John Coltrane just as his music was sliding from the highly organized "Love Supreme" into free jazz, you won't be disappointed by "One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note," which contains about 80 minutes of Coltrane's quartet in its prime. Oct. 11. Impulse.

JAMIE CULLUM The long-rumored collaboration between the young British jazz singer and the hip-hop producer Pharrell appears not to be on the album, because of legal issues, but "Catching Tales" is otherwise a sound follow-up to "Twentysomething," Mr. Cullum's breakthrough, with a mix of standards, rock covers (the Doves' "Catch the Sun") and jokey originals. Oct. 11. Verve.

DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Chris Carrabba, who leads the band Dashboard Confessional and has become a sensitive emo prince over the last decade, is in now the neighborhood of 30. But perhaps you can't ever exhaust the topic of tortured teenage love. On the other hand, his next album is produced by Daniel Lanois, who tends to work with artists who have reached a new level of maturity. Oct. 11. Vagrant.DEERHOOF A miraculous, obdurate little rock band; by turns spastic and controlled, they turn themselves inside out on each record. "The Runners Four" is, yet again, the band's best work. Oct. 11. 5 Rue Christine/Kill Rock Stars.

'DIFFERENT STROKES BY DIFFERENT FOLKS' A tribute album in honor of Sly and the Family Stone, including tracks by Maroon 5, the Roots, Big Boi, Janet Jackson and others; it has actually been approved by the super-reclusive Mr. Stone himself. Oct. 11. Sony Legacy.

EARLY MAN Early Man is two guys from Columbus, Ohio, who both wound up in New York, and two years ago decided to start playing as a metal duo. The first album, "Closing In," is a little thin, but not a joke; they're juiced on early Metallica as if they've just discovered it. Oct. 11. Matador.

SHIRLEY HORN "But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn on Verve." Ms. Horn's body of work for Verve since 1988 is not many small things but one big thing: slow-moving, mentholated, a little sad, strangely lingering in the memory. The album will include three tracks from her last New York engagement, last fall at Le Jazz Au Bar. Oct. 11. Verve.

ALICIA KEYS The soul singer-songwriter has done her MTV "Unplugged" session, a format well suited to her; it will be broadcast this month, and here's the resulting album. Oct 11. J Records.

RICKY MARTIN "Life" is his first new English-language album in five years, with guests including Fat Joe and Amerie. Oct. 11. Columbia.

DOLLY PARTON From a country singer who never stops fighting her way to new audiences comes "Those Were the Days" - a collection of folk and pop songs from the 1960's and 1970's, written by the likes of John Lennon ("Imagine") and Tommy James ("Crimson and Clover"). Oct. 11. Sugar Hill.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE The justly celebrated bosses of emo-punk have hit the big circuit. Oct. 13, the Theater at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, N.J.

DUNGEN The psychedelic Swedish band - which on records is one man, Gustav Ejstes - returns to New York for another round of touring; Dungen's last album, "Ta Det Lugnt," released last year in Europe and more recently here, is slowly acquiring a deep American fan base. Oct. 15. Bowery Ballroom.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Thicker, louder and more electric than "Sung Tongs," its breakthrough album from last year, Animal Collective's new album, "Feels," nevertheless continues the general idea of giddy folk-rock stomps and chants and powwows. The album (like the band) is definition-proof, but at its best this sounds like rehearsed, collective stream-of-consciousness. Oct. 18. Fat Cat.

NELLIE McKAY "Pretty Little Head" is the new album from this extravagantly witty songwriter, who is like a more confrontational Cole Porter; it includes duets with Cyndi Lauper and K. D. Lang. Oct. 18. Columbia.

MARTY STUART From the most deep-thinking and history-minded of commercial country singers, "Badlands" is a whole album about the culture of Native Americans in South Dakota. Oct. 18. Superlatone/Universal South.

FRED HERSCH A 50th-birthday concert from the ambitious, concept-generating jazz pianist. It will be entirely solo piano, which may be what he does best. Oct. 19. Zankel Hall.

GANGBE BRASS BAND From Benin, an extraordinary band that can suggest New Orleans parade music one minute and Afrobeat the next. Oct. 22. Zankel Hall.

YOUSSOU N'DOUR The great Senegalese singer, who puts on some of the deepest, most joyous concerts in popular music. Oct. 23 to 26. Zankel Hall.

VASHTI BUNYAN The folk singer Vashti Bunyan's first album, "Just Another Diamond Day," came out in 1969; 30 years later, it helped spawn a new eccentric folk movement, spearheaded by Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. Both make appearances on Ms. Bunyan's at-long-last follow-up, "Lookaftering." Oct. 25. DiCristina.

FIERY FURNACES A truly weird album of memory and family history, "Rehearsing My Choir" is a collaboration between Eleanor Friedberger and her brother Matthew of the Fiery Furnaces and their grandmother, Olga Sarantos. Ms. Sarantos talks and sings as herself in the present tense, and Ms. Friedberger recounts passages as her grandmother in the 1940's. Oct. 26. Rough Trade.

WILLEM BREUKER KOLLEKTIEF A long-running (and state-supported!) troupe of Dutch jazz musicians who use bits of Latin music, circus routines and free jazz in original combinations. Oct. 27. Merkin Concert Hall.

GANESH AND KUMARESH WITH ZAKIR HUSSAIN The brothers Ganesh and Kumaresh are accomplished violinists and singers in South Indian music; Zakir Hussain is a tabla virtuoso. Oct. 28. Peter Norton Symphony Space.

'TAPPIN' INTO MONK' The tap-dancer Savion Glover has gotten deep inside jazz before, most recently with John Coltrane's music; here he'll be getting into Thelonious Monk, whose rhythmic songs ought to be a hundred times easier to dance to than Coltrane's music. Oct. 28 and 29, Rose Theater, with an Oct. 29 Jazz for Young People matinee.

MI AND L'AU Mi, a Finnish singer, met L'Au, a French musician and producer. They fell in love and moved to a cabin in Finland to make art together in isolation. Their first album, self-titled, twinkles with acoustic stringed instruments; it's folkish, but more traditionally pretty and serene than, say, Devendra Banhart. Oct. 31. Young God.

MATISYAHU A Caribbean hip-hop album, produced by Bill Laswell, from a real cultural oddball: a young Hasidic rapper from Brooklyn who went through his teen-hippie phase and moved on. October. Or Music/Epic.

TEGO CALDERÓN The first reggaetón artist to sign with a major non-Latin label, Mr. Calderón is one of the performers with the most worldwide potential over the next few years. "The Underdog/El Subestimado," his first album for a major label, will still be mostly in Spanish. October. Atlantic. Click here for a related article.

November

ALTAMONT A band led by Dale Crover, drummer of the Seattle proto-grunge band the Melvins, with some similarity to Queens of the Stone Age; its first album, "The Monkees' Uncle," is unpretentiously odd, sludgy and pounding in some parts, briskly pop-ified in others. Nov. 1. AntAcid Audio.

BOBBY BARE As the composer of hits including "Detroit City" and "How I Got to Memphis," Mr. Bare is an intriguing presence in 70's country, sort of a junior member of Waylon and Willie's Outlaws posse. He hasn't made an album in 22 years, but his son, Bobby Bare Jr., a smart, eccentric force in alternative country, produced "The Moon Was Blue," the elder Bare's return to form. Nov. 1. Dualtone.

DIANA KRALL A Christmas album from contemporary jazz's million-seller, "Count Your Blessings." Nov. 1. Verve.

SANTANA Continuing the guest-laden album formula that moved him back into mass consciousness, Carlos Santana's new album, "All That I Am," reportedly rounds up cameos from Big Boi, Mary J. Blige and Los Lonely Boys. Nov. 1. J Records.

TIN HAT/MARK ORTON'S AURORA SEPTET The delicate acoustic trio (and now quartet) Tin Hat has cut across extremely wide swaths of music: jazz, classical, tango, French popular song, blues, experimental improvisation. It shares a bill with a septet led by Mr. Orton, Tin Hat's guitarist. Nov. 3. Merkin Concert Hall.

MAHRAJAN AL-FAN FESTIVAL OF ARAB ARTS A three-day festival, directed by the oud player Simon Shaheen, featuring some of the prime movers of traditional Arab arts. Nov. 4, Graduate Center at CUNY. Nov. 5 and 6, Peter Norton Symphony Space.

PATTI LARKIN/KAKI KING As part of "La Guitara," a series featuring female guitarists, the Celtic-funk-folk musician Patti Larkin is on a double bill with the younger Kaki King, a virtuosic acoustic guitarist. Nov. 6. Merkin Concert Hall.

KENNY CHESNEY An expert chronicler of how to spend your off-time - his last album was largely devoted to beach-bumming in the Caribbean - the enormously successful country singer's new album is "The Road & the Radio." Nov. 8. BNA/BMG.

NEIL DIAMOND The old heartthrob has a new album produced by Rick Rubin, who tends to bring out the best in performers - though usually bands who play with a lot more volume and cussing, and generally darker vibes, than Mr. Diamond. Nov. 8. Columbia.

ROD STEWART Say what you will, but this guy, in his unpretentious way, keeps having the last laugh. "The Great American Songbook, Vol. IV" is likely to start another round of married make-out sessions. Nov. 8. J Records.

'BILLIE & ME' A cross-genre grouping of singers pay tribute to Billie Holiday in their own ways, including Dianne Reeves, Rokia Traoré and Fontella Bass. Nov. 10. Zankel Hall.

BIG & RICH A second album, called "Comin' to Your City," by the duo that's helping to reshape country music, knocking through long-stratified conventions with a little bit of rap and metal and gospel. Nov. 15. Warner Brothers.

COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION AWARDS The big televised event of country music moves from Nashville to New York City (of all places) this year. Nov 15. Madison Square Garden. Click here for a related article.

MADONNA Her next album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor," is reported to be nonpreachy and basically nonconceptual: just dance music as she used to make it. Nov. 15. Maverick.

SHAKIRA "Oral Fixation, Vol. 2." From an intriguing Colombian pop star, a collection of entirely new songs, produced by Rick Rubin, and this time all in English, unlike the recently released "Fijación Oral, Vol. 1." Nov. 15. Epic. Click here for a related article.

'WYNTON WITH STRINGS' The trumpeter and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center presents his own quartet with a string section, conducted by Robert Sadin; they will play music from Mr. Marsalis's albums "Hot House Flowers" and "The Midnight Blues." Nov. 17 to 19, Rose Theater.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN "Hypnotize" is Part 2 of a two-disc set, following last spring's "Mesmerize." It's not that the two albums by the politicized, eccentric Armenian-American metal band are substantially different. Rather, the band rightly presumed that nobody could absorb so much manic anger in one go. Nov. 22. American/Columbia.

THE METERS A few months ago, in New Orleans, the four original members of the great funk band played together for the first time in years; it was advertised as their last show. Guess what? Nov. 25. Nokia Theater.

December

WADADA LEO SMITH'S GOLDEN QUARTET Known as a great lyrical and textural improviser since the late 60's, the trumpeter has had a midlife resurgence lately with his Golden Quartet, a band that shuffles around members but keeps its standards high. Dec. 3. International House, Philadelphia.

SONGS OF THE SEPHARDIC WORLD Yasmin Levy, an Israeli singer in her late 20's, presents Sephardic Jewish music of the 15th century from Andalusia, Morocco and Turkey. Presented by the World Music Institute and Carnegie Hall. Dec. 3. Zankel Hall.

STEFON HARRIS The jazz vibraphonist throws down equally hard in straight-ahead music or the funk setting of his new band, Blackout. Dec. 8. Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space.

'WITHOUT GROUND' The young Ukrainian singer Mariana Sadovska, one of the more thrilling and intense singers in any style, has collaborated with the video artist Lars Jan on a song cycle about village life in Ukraine, using the folk songs she has learned from women in remote rural areas. Dec. 9. Leonard Nimoy Thalia, Symphony Space.

BUBBA SPARXXX "The Charm" will be the Southern rapper's third album; last time around (on "Deliverance," an excellent and underappreciated album casting Southern white rural culture in hip-hop terms) he was helped by Timbaland, and this time he's on a new label run by Big Boi of OutKast. Purple Ribbon/Virgin. December.

2006

ROY HARGROVE AND MULGREW MILLER A duet between a trumpeter and pianist who have helped define the serious mainstream of American jazz over the last two decades. Jan 9. Merkin Concert Hall.

'THE MUSIC OF MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT' The first of four Wednesdays given over to the blues in the New York Guitar Festival, this concert pays tribute to the serene blues fingerpicker with performances by Jorma Kaukonen, Bill Morrissey, Jen Chapin and Brandon Ross. Jan. 18. Merkin Concert Hall.

THE STROKES The third album by the New York post-punk band that for a minute seemed to have everyone in its corner. Jan. 24. RCA.

'BAJO! - THE GREAT TRADITION OF THE LATIN BASS' The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring four great bassists: Israel Cachao Lopez, Andy Gonzalez, John Benitez and Charnett Moffett. Jan. 27 and 28. Rose Theater.

'LEGENDS OF JAZZ' Thirteen weekly episodes of a jazz show, hosted by the pianist Ramsey Lewis, with different musician guests on each program - something that's been a long time coming on public television. January. PBS.

'CITY OF BROTHERLY JAZZ' A Philadelphia-themed Jazz at Lincoln Center show, featuring Tootie and Jimmy Heath, Pat Martino, Joey DeFrancesco and Duane Eubanks. March 10 and 11. Rose Theater.

GREAT AMERICAN SONGWRITERS WITH BILL CHARLAP In which the jazz pianist Mr. Charlap, with the singer Ethel Ennis and the tenor saxophonist Houston Person, works over the Vernon Duke songbook - including "Autumn in New York" and "April in Paris," two of the best songs ever written. March 16 to 18. Allen Room,.

'AS OF NOW: BARRY HARRIS AND REGINA CARTER' The pianist and the violinist take part in Jazz at Lincoln Center's continuing series of concerts featuring new commissioned work. April 7 and 8. Rose Theater.

'JAZZ IN MOTION: BALLET HISPANICO' Ballet Hispanico dancing to music by the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, including works by Tito Puente, Chico O'Farrill and Lalo Schifrin. April 21 and 22. Rose Theater.

'CONGO SQUARE' Inevitably, a Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra concert about the history of New Orleans music, dealing with the music of Sam Morgan, Jelly Roll Morton and others; there will also be a new composition by Wynton Marsalis, featuring the Ghanaian drummer Yacub Addy. May 4 to 6. Rose Hall.

PAUL BLEY AND FRANK KIMBROUGH Part of "No Minimum," a Merkin series pairing jazz pianists. Mr. Kimbrough gets a lot of his quiet rhapsody from Mr. Bley, his elder, and there may be a bit of productive drama in his first face-to-face encounter with his greatest influence. May 22. Merkin Concert Hall.

Places

BIRDLAND

315 West 44th Street, Clinton

(212) 581-3080,

www.birdlandjazz.com

CARNEGIE HALL/ZANKEL HALL

881 Seventh Avenue, at 57th Street, Manhattan

(212) 247-7800, www.carnegiehall.org

CONTINENTAL AIRLINES ARENA

East Rutherford, N.J.

(212) 307-7171,

www.ticketmaster.com