thursday10

Thursday10

CylinderJason Marsalis QuartetAndy Moor & DJ/Rupture, Hanne Hukkelberg

friday11

Jason Marsalis Quartet

saturday12

Cave SingersCylinderDJ SegaA Hawk and a HacksawJason Marsalis QuartetMoonshine WillySubarachnoid Space

sunday13

CylinderJason Marsalis QuartetPhantom Orchard, Subarachnoid Space, Woods

monday14

Felix da HousecatKevin O’Donnell’s September Spectacular

tuesday15

Paul Burch

JASON MARSALIS QUARTET On Music Update (ELM), his first album in eight years, Jason Marsalis takes an all-or-nothing approach to the drums. Five of the 13 tracks consist of nothing but stacked overdubs of Marsalis on the kit, layered into concise workouts that reference everything from disco to Japanese taiko drumming. On the other tunes he doesn’t touch the drums at all—instead he switches to vibraphone, an instrument he picked up early in the aughts, and leads the trio of pianist Austin Johnson, bassist Will Goble, and drummer David Potter, a group he met while in residence at Florida State University. His approach on vibes mirrors his lucid, dynamic drumming style: his phrases are lean and crisp and arrive in waves that often play against the rhythms of his bandmates. The prancing melody of the original “Ballet Class” is a tad schmaltzy for my tastes—Johnson’s bluesy solo can’t quite save it—but by and large Marsalis acquits himself well. Whatever the instrument, he’s got a fluid, unerring sense of swing, and on vibes he displays quite a fondness for quoting bebop standards—it sounds like he’s been waiting years for a crack at all the melodies he couldn’t play on drums. See also Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  8 and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth, 312-360-0234, $20. —Peter Margasak

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ANDY MOOR & DJ/RUPTURE, HANNE HUKKELBERG New York’s DJ/RUPTURE owes a big part of his reputation to his skill at fitting the most unlikely music into seamless, steadily bumping mixes. His new album with Matt Shadetek, Solar Life Raft (due in November on the Agriculture label), is a sprawling session that threads a single rhythmic line through synth pop, dancehall, dubstep, and more, even making room for lengthy chunks of recordings by contemporary classical maverick Nico Muhly, musique concrete master Luc Ferrari, and Finish psych-folk oddballs Paavoharju. Rupture can also improvise, focusing less on dance-floor flow and more on responding to a partner—alongside DJ Olive, he’s one of the few DJs I’ve heard who can interact with a live musician without falling back on simply spinning beats. On Patches (Unsuitable), his superb collaborative disc with ANDY MOOR of the Ex—one of rock’s most versatile and rhythmically inventive guitarists—Rupture layers and processes bleepy, blobby tones, liquid melodic shards, speech fragments, and hammering beats, creating a series of peripatetic dialogues with Moor’s stuttering, alternately clattery and resonant riffs and patterns. Even when their output is at its most tangled and hard to digest, they always seem to be playing off and complementing each other, and the listener always has lots to latch onto.

This show is part of Adventures in Modern Music. Moor and DJ/Rupture headline; Hukkelberg, the Lucky Dragons, and Sharon Van Etten open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 866-468-3401, $15 ($50 five-day pass). —Peter Margasak

DJ SEGA One of the best things about so-called club music (aka Baltimore club, aka B-more house) is the fact that, despite its rigid stylistic template, it’s amenable to hybridization with a practically infinite range of genres. Though the requirements for something to be considered club music are unusually specific, those are really the only rules it has. Include the right elements—the break from Lyn Collins’s “Think (About It)” and a bunch of rapid-fire bass-drum stutters—and you can make a club track out of anything from Inner Circle’s “Bad Boys” to the theme from Pinky and the Brain. Diplo-approved Philly club-music stylist DJ Sega understands this as well as or better than anyone. His set from this May at New York’s Bowery Ballroom bounces all over the map, touching down in the span of an hour on “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” Michael Jackson, “Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check,” and Chromeo—but thanks to his skill and instincts, these jarring transitions create a cognitive frisson instead of ugly aesthetic whiplash. And his take on “IC19” for a recent Buraka Som Sistema remix EP proves that kuduro can make the transition to club music just like everything else. The Ghetto Division DJs (Charlie Glitch, Rampage, Rob Threezy, Maddjazz, Moon Man, D-51, M-Dok, and Louie Cue), Broken Disco 1980 (Akira, Le Fonz, and Mr. Bobby), and Chicago Dead Beats open. 11:30 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-0203, $6, free before 12:30 AM, 18+. —Miles Raymer