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SEPTEMBER ALBUM DROPS & PERFORMANCES

ORRIN EVANS The pianist Orrin Evans has lately been on a hot streak, advancing a pugnacious and exploratory brand of post-bop. “The Evolution of Oneself” deepens this agenda, featuring a trio with two smart, groove-literate peers: the drummer Karriem Riggins and the bassist Christian McBride. (Mr. Evans will celebrate the album’s September release, with different partners, Sept. 10 through Sept. 20 at Smoke Jazz Club; smokejazz.com.) Smoke Sessions. (Nate Chinen)

THE ROYAL BOPSTERS PROJECT In this multigenerational jazz vocal summit, renowned old-timers like Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey and Bob Dorough harmonize with the quartet London, Meader, Pramuk and Ross, younger keepers of the tradition. Birdland, Sept. 15 through Sept. 19, birdlandjazz.com. (S.H.)

KARRIN ALLYSON The album “Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein” (Sept. 18) tells you the main thing you need to know about Ms. Allyson’s new album, her first nonholiday release in four years. You should know at least a couple of more things: first, that she aces the tightrope walk of songbook reverence and jazz-vocal breeziness that often proves elusive on such an album; and second, that her sterling accompanists are the bassist John Patitucci and the pianist Kenny Barron.

JOHN ELLIS & DOUBLE-WIDE A saxophonist and clarinetist fond of blending modern-jazz erudition with street-level grooves, John Ellis has long had a strong outlet in Double-Wide, featuring the New Orleans drummer Jason Marsalis along with Matt Perrine on sousaphone and Alan Ferber on trombone. “Charm” (Sept. 18), the group’s new album, also greatly benefits from the work of Gary Versace, on organ, accordion and piano. Parade Light. (N.C.)

PÉREZ PATITUCCI BLADE Since roughly the turn of this century, the pianist Danilo Pérez, the bassist John Patitucci and the drummer Brian Blade have been refining a sleek, ecstatic bond within the Wayne Shorter Quartet. They recently began working as a stand-alone trio, bringing an open-ended spirit of inquiry and deep reserves of collective intuition; “Children of the Light” is their debut album (Sept. 18).

LUCIANA SOUZA The Brazilian jazz vocalist Luciana Souza has carved a special niche out of lilting duologue, working one by one with a small stable of revered acoustic guitarists. But on “Speaking in Tongues” (Sept. 18) she’s at the center of a changeable and frisky band; its guitarist is Lionel Loueke, who has a taste for polyrhythmic density, and its star soloist is the harmonica whiz Grégoire Maret. The album’s title partly refers to all the nonverbal felicity in Ms. Souza’s tunes, though she also presents new musical settings for a pair of Leonard Cohen poems.

JOHN SCOFIELD “Past Present” (Sept. 25) is an album title with more than one connotation for the guitarist John Scofield. For one thing, it’s a welcome reunion of his quartet of the early-to-mid 1990s, an elastic, swinging group with Joe Lovano on tenor saxophone and Bill Stewart on drums. (Larry Grenadier is the bassist for this go-round.) The deeper meaning, mostly implicit, is an elegy for Mr. Scofield’s son, who died of cancer two years ago — and whose outlook can apparently be credited for this music’s resolute lightness of spirit.

CHRISTIAN SCOTT ATUNDE ADJUAH “Stretch Music” (Sept. 18) is the new album by this firebrand trumpeter from New Orleans, who now resides in Harlem. It’s also a set of aesthetic principles — at heart, involving the elasticity of genres, including the one most of us know as jazz.

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN AND THE 4TH DIMENSION Mr. McLaughlin, the English guitar virtuoso and jazz-fusion godhead, has an effervescent outlet in the 4th Dimension, the band with which he released his most recent album a few years ago. “Black Light” (Sept. 18) consists of all-new compositions for the band, including one piece Mr. McLaughlin wrote for a fallen brother in arms, the flamenco guitar legend Paco de Lucía. Abstract Logix. (N.C.)

CARLOS HENRIQUEZ Mr. Henriquez, the bassist in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, hails from a Puerto Rican family in the Bronx, and his background deeply informs his work. “The Bronx Pyramid,” Mr. Henriquez’s debut album, is due out on Blue Engine Records on Sept. 18. (N.C.)

KENDRICK SCOTT ORACLE “We Are the Drum” is the fourth album (and first for Blue Note) as bandleader by Mr. Scott, a drummer with Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock and others, and a composer making jazz that’s as central to contemporary practice as it comes: rhythmic and interactive, complex and precise and empathetic. Blue Note. Sept. 25. (The band performs at Jazz Standard Sept. 22-23.) (B.R.)

CHICK COREA AND BÉLA FLECK Jazz is to Mr. Corea, the celebrated pianist, as bluegrass is to Mr. Fleck, the estimable banjoist: a formative discipline and a continuing fascination, but hardly the whole picture. Their new double album, “Two,” (out Sept. 11) is a document culled from extensive touring over the eight years since their first duo album. Concord Jazz. They’ll perform on Sept. 27 at Town Hall. (N.C.)

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