(Chinen) ★ Peter Evans's Zebulon Trio (Thursday) Peter Evans, a trumpeter with an expressive command of timbre and texture, recently recorded fruitfully with this trio, featuring John Hébert on bass and Kassa Overall on drums.
(Chinen) * TOOTS THIELEMANS AND KENNY WERNER (Through Sunday) The Dutch harmonica master Toots Thielemans and the American pianist Kenny Werner have recorded fruitfully together in recent years; here they'll focus on Brazilian music, an area of specialty for Mr. Thielemans, in an all-star ensemble featuring the guitarist Oscar Candro-Neves and the percussionist Airto Moreira.
(Chinen) ★ Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, Victor Lewis (Friday and Saturday) The bassist Gary Peacock is an intuitive musician drawn to sonorous melody, and so is the pianist Marc Copland, a veteran partner with whom he has fruitfully recorded.
(Chinen) ★ Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, Joey Baron (Tuesday through March 2) Mr. Peacock, a bassist, is an intuitive musician drawn to sonorous melody, and so is Mr. Copland, a pianist and a veteran partner with whom Mr. Peacock has fruitfully recorded.
(Chinen) ★ Gary Peacock, Marc Copland, Joey Baron (Friday and Saturday) Mr. Peacock, a bassist, is an intuitive musician drawn to sonorous melody, and so is Mr. Copland, a pianist and a veteran partner with whom Mr. Peacock has fruitfully recorded.
7 30 and 9 30 p.m., Jazz Standard, 116 East 27th Street, Manhattan, (212 576-2232; cover, $20. (Chinen) PAUL MOTIAN, JOE LOVANO, BILL FRISELL (Through Sunday) Mr. Motian, a drummer and composer, sets a tone for this blue-chip trio that's shadowy, slippery and open-ended as a koan; and there's no better place to see these musicians than at the Vanguard, where they've fruitfully recorded.
9 and 10 30 p.m., Jazz Gallery, 290 Hudson Street, South Village, (212 242-1063, cover, $15, members, $10 (Chinen) JEREMY STEIG QUARTET (Tonight) Mr. Steig is an accomplished flautist with a heavy jazz-rock pedigree; his group features the electric guitarist Vic Juris, with whom he has recently and fruitfully recorded.
But those styles overlapped fruitfully at the same time, and many of those robustly swinging yet brashly sophisticated recordings appeared on Blue Note, and were recorded by Van Gelder.
In order to read it fruitfully, familiarity with the entry on possible worlds is presupposed.
ONE could, perhaps, argue fruitfully about whether the most innovative and progressive classical record company in the world is Nonesuch or Naxos.
Happily, it does right by its pedigree: Mr. Hill has worked fruitfully outside the Blue Note nexus, notably for Palmetto Records, but never in his recent career has he sounded more in tune with his original line of inquiry.
