This week, our music critics have picked everything from NYC jazz trio Harriet Tubman to the Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival to an Art Martyrs Showcase helmed by Tres Leches. Follow the links below for ticket links and music clips for all of their picks, and find even more shows on our complete music calendar. Looking for more options? Check out our arts & culture critics’ picks for this week.
TUESDAY
JAZZ
Olli Hirvonen, Dan Phelps
No less a jazz-fusion deity than Mahavishnu Orchestra leader/Miles Davis sideman John McLaughlin has praised Finnish jazz guitarist Olli Hirvonen, so you know he’s the real deal. The Brooklyn-based Hirvonen—who won the Montreux Jazz Guitar Competition in 2016—plays in a style reminiscent of another Scandinavian fusionist: Norway’s excellent Terje Rypdal. Hirvonen’s tone ranges from icy pointillism to dense clangor, with his fleet fingers finessing rococo filigrees in elegant compositions that will dazzle fans of forward-thinking jazz and prog rock. His virtuosity urges along songs with surprising swerves and thrusts, as exemplified by the 2019 album Displace. DAVE SEGAL
