Hear new approaches to music for piano, bass and drums (and more), by hybrid trio GoGo Penguin, Matthew Shipp's trio, bass player Yosef Gutman's trio, and Danish duo Svaneborg Kardyb.

Hear music for violin, viola, and/or cello with other sounds by transdisciplinary composer Yaz Lancaster; cellist and composer MIZU; and Cuban-American Bryan Senti, among others.

Hear blend(s) of music rooted in Northeast Africa by Ethiojazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke with Hoodna Orchestra, London-based Somali-rooted Dur Dur Band, and Somaliland singer Sahra Halgan.

There's groove-based jazz, post-rock, and minimalism in music by Oregon-based quintet Blue Cranes, by Manchester-based trio GoGo Penguin, and the reinvented quartet, The Bad Plus.

Hear pieces using voices to create a place by Lithuanian composer Zibuokle Martinaitytė, Kenyan composer/sound artist Nyokabi Kariuki, and American composer John Luther Adams.

From the 25th Annual New York Guitar Festival at Kaufman Music Center, hear the duo of Marc Ribot, the New York guitarist, and Leyla McCalla, the New Orleans cellist and banjo player.

Hear work by Japanese-born London-based composer Hatis Noit, Spanish vocalist/pianist Marina Herlop, Finnish band Tuuletar, and singer Daisy Press takes on Hildegard von Bingen.

Cuban-born pianist Omar Sosa is a serial collaborator, whose latest band, Quarteto Americanos, features sax player Peter Apfelbaum. The two play duo music in-studio.

Paul Simon joins John to present Seven Psalms, a guitar-based song cycle of musings on life and death, faith and technology - and to hold forth about ways of manipulating sound.