Comin' right up -- introducing Matt Miller

Monday, May 12 Tony Malaby's robust tenor sax fronts a different forward-thinking ensemble each Monday, including this week pianist drummer Tom Rainey, bassist Eivind Opsvik and guitarist Mary Halvorson; 9 and 10:30 p.m. at the funky-comfy Tea Lounge, 837 Union St. (between 6^th and 7^th Aves.), $5 donation requested.

 Tuesday, May 13 - Saturday May 17 Saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders has mellowed considerably since his days as John Coltrane's demonic foil, but his husky tone and melodic sense have developed into something like serenity, at the midtown Manhattan supper club Birdland, 215 W. 44^th St.. 8:30 and 11 p.m.; $35 - $45 music charge.

 Wednesday, May 14 Another chance to hear Malaby and Rainey - with bassist Mark Helias, this month's curator of the weekly Night of the Ravished Limbs series in the intimate back room of the hipster neighborhood tavern Barbes', 376 9^th St., Brooklyn, at 8 and 10 p.m., $10.

Thursday, May 15 - Saturday, May 17 Multi-reedist composer and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians Henry Threadgill explores an unusual timbral palette with his band Zooid (named for an organic cell capable of independent movement or several cells forming a colony) -- Liberty Ellman, guitar; Stomu Takehishi, bass guitar; Jose Davila, tuba; Elliot Humberto Kavee, drums; Dana Leong, cello and trombone (15 and 17^th only); Judith Sanchez, movement (16^th only), at the Jazz Gallery, a multi-arts cultural center, 290 Hudson St., Manhattan, 9 and 10:30 p.m., $20 ($10 for members).