Jazz Listings for Jan. 6-12

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★ Ralph Alessi Quartet (Friday) As on his glorious new manuscript “Cognitive Dissonance” (Cam Jazz), a trumpeter Ralph Alessi leads an exacting, contentious postbop organisation featuring several glorious stroke partners, any a bandleader in his possess right: a pianist Jason Moran, a bassist Drew Gress and a drummer Nasheet Waits. 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. (Nate Chinen)

★ Geri Allen, Esperanza Spalding, Terri Lyne Carrington (Tuesday by Jan. 15) 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)

Ben Allison Band (Saturday) A focused and prolific composer, a bassist Ben Allison does something opposite on his many new album, “Action-Refraction” (Palmetto): he covers songs by others, including PJ Harvey and Neil Young. The practice works, not slightest since of Mr. Allison’s rapport with a guitarist Steve Cardenas and a banjoist Brandon Seabrook, who react him here, in a rope with a drummer Rogerio Boccato. At 11 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $15 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

★ Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society (Friday and Saturday) This postmillennial large rope was final listened behaving an desirous multimedia opus, “Brooklyn Babylon,” as partial of a Next Wave Festival during a Brooklyn Academy of Music. Mr. Argue, a band’s designer composer-conductor, revisits some of that element here, along with some as-yet-unreleased pieces from a stirring album. At 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, during Spring Street, South Village, (212) 242-1063, jazzgallery.org; $20 cover. (Chinen)

Michaël Attias (Monday) Mr. Attias, a sonically brave alto saxophonist, has a clever ring partner in a trumpeter Ralph Alessi; he also has a texture-minded and variable stroke section, with Matt Mitchell on piano, John Hébert on drum and Satoshi Takeishi on drums. At 10 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $10 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

Etienne Charles and Kaiso (Tuesday) On “Kaiso” (Culture Shock), his joyous new album, Mr. Charles, a trumpeter and percussionist, explores a affinities between jazz, a song of his calling, and calypso, a song of his culture. (He was innate and lifted in Trinidad.) It’s a good bid that creates we wish to see him in person, heading a rope like a one he has here. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212) 576-2232, jazzstandard.net; $20 cover. (Chinen)

Claudia Quintet (Saturday) This precisely calibrated though purposefully extemporaneous chamber-jazz group, led by a drummer-composer John Hollenbeck, seemed here final month with a thespian Kurt Elling, behaving song from “What Is a Beautiful?” (Cuneiform), an manuscript desirous by a poems of Kenneth Patchen. The organisation earnings but vocals, assigning a melodies especially to a multireedist Chris Speed. At 8 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; $15 cover, with a $10 minimum. (Chinen)

The Clayton Brothers (Monday by Thursday) John Clayton, a bassist, and Jeff Clayton, a saxophonist, have been pity bandstands for some-more than 30 years, and their rapport, prisoner on a new manuscript “Brother to Brother” (ArtistShare), feels like a vigourous and basic thing. In this rope they enroll a shrewd immature pianist Gerald Clayton (John’s son), as good as a trumpeter Terell Stafford and a drummer Obed Calvaire. At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz during Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Broadway, (212) 258-9595, jalc.org; $30 to $35 cover, with a smallest of $10 during tables, $5 during a bar; $15 for students for name sets. (Chinen)