5/2 Microfest: Mak Grgic @ All Saints Beverly Hills....5/2-5/4 Philip Glass Ensemble @ UCLA Royce Hall....5/2 & 5/3 Fred Hersch Trio @ Segerstrom CFA....5/3 Miguel Atwood-Ferguson 34th Birthday Concert @ the blue whale....5/3 Billy Childs + Moira Smiley present the Music of Laura Nyro @ South Pasadena Eclectic Music Festival....5/4 Brandon Coleman Group @ the blue whale....5/4 Onaje Murray @ Hal's Bar & Grill....5/5 & 5/6 The Bad Plus @ The Mint....5/6 Bonnie Barnett Band + Gongfarmer @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts....5/7 Brad Dutz Quartet @ Jazz at the CAP....5/7 Leni Stern @ The Baked Potato....5/8 An Evening with the Nels Cline Singers @ Largo at the Coronet....5/8 Atomic Bomb! The Music of William Onyeabor w/ David Byrne, Alexis Taylor, Money Mark et al @ The Greek Theatre....5/9 Lisa Terry and Collective Spirit @ LACMA....5/9 & 5/10 Anthony Wilson Band @ the blue whale....5/10 Microfest: The Formalist Quartet @ Boston Court....5/11 Ariel Pink @ The Echo....5/14 Bennie Maupin Ensemble @ West L.A. College....5/14 Justo Almario + Marcos Ariel @ the blue whale...5/14 Branford Marsalis @ Haugh PAC....5/16 Jacques Lesure Quartet @ LACMA....5/17 Michael Session Sextet @ Seabird Jazz Lounge...5/18 Microfest: Dr. Vicki Ray + Aron Kallay @ Villa Aurora....5/18 Chuck Dukowski Sextet @ Save Music in Chinatown Benefit....5/19 Allen Toussaint @ The Lyric Theatre....5/22 The Decisive Instant / Sun Ra Centennial Celebration @ Grand Star Jazz....5/23 Phil Ranelin 75th Birthday Celebration @ Barbara Morrison PAC....5/23 Azar Lawrence Quartet @ LACMA....5/23-5/25 Kenny Burrell Quintet @ Catalina's....5/25 Jazz Vespers presents Dwight Trible @ All Saints Pasadena....5/26 Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog @ Largo at the Coronet....5/26 Monday West Coast Get Down w/ Miles Mosley & Friends @ The Viper Room....5/30 Rodriguez @ The Greek Theatre....5/31 Azar Lawrence Quartet @ Seabird Jazz Lounge....5/31 Excursions: next, Nine+, The Natives & NotQuiteFree @ MADHaus