Listen up! Listings, May 23 - May 29

Friday, May 23 -  Last two nights of drummer Al Foster at the Village Vanguard, backing his quartet of saxophonist Eli Digibri, pianist Gary Versace, and bassist Doug Weiss. 178 7^th Ave South at 9 & 11 pm $35.

Saturday, May 24 Pianist-composer Angelica Sanchez injects lyricism into avant-garde settings with bassist Chris Lightcap and drummer Chad Taylor in her Circle Down Trio,  at Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, 9 & 10:30 pm $10.

Sunday, May 25 Alto saxophonist Rob Brown's burbling tone and sophisticated melodicism recall Cannonball Adderley - but he also has a penchant for mercurial free-improvisation; with pianist Craig Taborn, drummer Gerald Cleaver and bassist Todd Nicholson, at The Stone, northwest corner of Avenue C and 2^nd Street, 10 pm, $10.  

Monday, May 26 Bassist John Hebert, a sideman with the late Andrew Hill and a slew of post-bop improvisers, leads a quartet featuring saxophonist Michael Attias, percussionist Satoshi Takeishi and drummer Nasheet Waits at the Tea Lounge, 837 Union St. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. 8 pm, $5.  

Tuesday, May 27 - June 1 Acerbic drummer Paul Motian brings his Trio 2000 - a quintet with pianist Masabumi Kiikuchi, bassist Thomas Morgan, and freely associative saxophonists Michael Attias and Loren Stillman to the Village Vanguard, 178 7^th Ave South at 9 & 11 pm $35.

Wednesday, May 28 Multi-media artist Joshua White and his Joshua Light Show end the month at Brooklyn's Issue Project room in a series of collaborations with convention-shattering musicians. Images will be projected on 5/28 behind an improvising quartet of turtablist Marina Rosenfeld, electronics improviser Ikue Mori, guitarist Lee Ranaldo and accordionist Zeena Parkins; on the 29^th, tabla master Samir Chatterjee and sitarist K.V. Mahabala, and on the 30^th,, guitarist Marc Ribot's Spiritual Unity with bassist Henry Grimes, drummer Chad Taylor and trumpeter Roy Campbell. The (OA) Can Factory, 232 3^rd Street at 3^rd Avenue, 3^rd Floor, Brooklyn, 8 pm every night $20.

Thursday, May 29 The former Center for Improvised Music in Park Slope, Brooklyn reopens this week as the Douglass Street Music Collective, with Art Bailey's Orkestra Popilar, pianist Daniel Kelly's quartet, trumpeter John Carlson and drummer Matt Moran. 295 Douglass Street, between 3^rd and 4^th Avenues. 8pm. (price? Sorry, we don't know).