Jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater is one of the headliners in this year’s Charlie Parker Jazz Festival on Sat. Aug. 24. The festival runs Thurs., Aug. 22 through Sun., Aug. 25.

Multi-instrumentalist and electric zither player Laraaji creates sound environments and improvisations on the rooftop at Elsewhere on Wed., Aug. 21. 

Brooklyn-based Ikebe Shakedown blends brasstastic goodness, 70's soul, and Afrobeaty funk on their new record, "Kinds Left Behind." They play on Thurs., Aug 22 at Asbury Lanes. 

The singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer Beck plays Tuesday night, Aug. 20 with Cage the Elephant at the PNC Bank Art Center in Holmdel, NJ. 

New York band Slavic Soul Party plays Balkan-style brass band at Barbes In The Woods, a marathon backyard festival at Bartlett Farm in Massachusetts on Saturday, Aug. 17. 

Andy Statman is considered one of the world's most gifted mandolin virtuosos as well as a leading Klezmer clarinetist. He and his trio play at Joe's Pub on Thursday, Aug. 15. 

Nakhane seduces, comforts, and charms with his tender falsetto in grandly orchestrated “anti-gospel” glam-soul-pop. He performs Wed. night, Aug. 14, in a free show at Marcus Garvey Park.

Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, has a new record, "Lost Girls," which creates an entire alternate universe with its own mythology. Hear a song as part of our Weekly Music Roundup.

Daughter of Swords, aka North Carolina singer and guitarist Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, plays Tuesday night, Aug. 13, at Union Pool – and Tuesday afternoon here in our studio.