Jazz Listings for Jan. 13-19

Full reviews of new jazz performances: nytimes.com/jazz.

Dave Allen Trio (Friday) Dave Allen, a progressive-minded guitarist, leads a organisation with dual clever partners, a bassist Carlo De Rosa and a drummer Mark Ferber. At 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 p.m., Bar Next Door, 129 Macdougal Street, nearby West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 529-5945, lalanternacaffe.com; $12 cover, with a one-drink minimum. (Nate Chinen)

★ Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington (Friday by Sunday) Ms. Carrington, a maestro jazz drummer with a knack for lettered funk, recently expelled “The Mosaic Project” (Concord), proudly featuring an all-woman cast. Among a many profitable players are Ms. Allen, a correct and variable pianist, and Ms. Spalding, a bassist and thespian substantially best famous as a dark-horse standout of final year’s Grammy Awards. This will be an intergenerational summit, among other things, and since any of these artists is such a pluralist, there’s no revelation what belligerent will be covered. At 9 and 11 p.m., Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, during 11th Street, West Village, (212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com; $25 cover, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)

★ Chris Dingman’s Waking Dreams (Thursday) With “Waking Dreams,” recently expelled on Between Worlds, a vibraphonist Chris Dingman delivered a sure-footed and deeply musical debut, a showcase both for his radiant compositions and for his rapport with a network of peers, including a saxophonist Loren Stillman, a bassist Joe Sanders and a drummer Justin Brown, who join him here. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

Lou Donaldson Quartet (Thursday by Jan. 22) Bebop, blues and boogaloo are all satisfactory diversion for a maestro alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson, whose understanding stroke territory facilities Akiko Tsuruga on organ, Randy Johnston on guitar and McClenty Hunter on drums. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $25. (Chinen)

Ellery Eskelin Trio (Friday and Saturday) The effort saxophonist Ellery Eskelin pays loyalty to his mom — a Hammond B-3 organ actor famous as Bobbie Lee — on his many new album, “Trio New York.” He appears here with his rope friends on a album, Gary Versace on organ and Gerald Cleaver on drums, who can hoop churning pitch as good as dim abstraction. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $15 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

Peter Evans Quartet (Tuesday) The trumpeter Peter Evans has a mind-boggling new album, “Ghosts” (More Is More), that pursues formidable derivations of customary form. He works here with a same slicing rope as on a album, with a pianist Carlos Homs, a bassist Tom Blancarte and a drummer Jim Black. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

★ Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Joey Baron (Tuesday by Jan. 22) A handful of years ago a guitarist Bill Frisell and a bassist Ron Carter available an manuscript with a master drummer Paul Motian, who died late final year. They regroup here with Joey Baron, a drummer who has engrossed some of Mr. Motian’s lessons while progressing his possess expansive time feel; a repertory should ring both scary originals and heartland standards. At 8 and 10:30 p.m., Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 475-8592, bluenote.net; $35 cover during tables, $20 during a bar, with a $5 minimum. (Chinen)

Wycliffe Gordon Quartet (Friday and Saturday) A charismatic trombonist specializing in gutbucket swing, Wycliffe Gordon leads a quintet featuring a pianist Aaron Diehl, a bassist Yasushi Nakamura and a drummer Marion Felder; a thespian Nancy Harms joins as a special guest. At 8 and 10 p.m., Kitano Hotel, 66 Park Avenue, during 38th Street, (212) 885-7119, kitano.com; $25 cover, with a $15 minimum. (Chinen)