IDAN RAICHEL PROJECT He hails from Israel, but Raichel’s music traverses the map from the Middle East to Africa to Latin America, blurring the line between traditional and secular rhythms with elements of rock and electronica. 7:30 p.m. March 7. $30-$50. Berklee Performance Center. 617-876-4275. www.worldmusic.org
Week Ahead
Music picks
IDAN RAICHEL PROJECT He hails from Israel, but Raichel’s music traverses the map from the Middle East to Africa to Latin America, blurring the line between traditional and secular rhythms with elements of rock and electronica. 7:30 p.m. March 7. $30-$50. Berklee Performance Center. 617-876-4275. www.worldmusic.org
POP & ROCK
PAT GREEN For years Green was a big star in his native Texas and a cult secret just about everywhere else, but judging by his venue-size upgrade - from the Paradise to the House of Blues - it looks like the Hub may be getting hip to his plain-spoken but catchy country rock. 7 p.m. March 5. $25-$35. House of Blues. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.comMUSE The adventurous prog rockers have been on a good run. The group’s fifth studio album, “The Resistance,’’ had a top 5 debut on the Billboard charts, was critically well-received, and spawned the super-massive cross-format radio hit “Uprising.’’ And this week the group launched its very own iPhone app. Capping its ascendance is this headlining arena show. 7:30 p.m. March 6. $40.50-$50.50. TD Garden. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com
MAYER HAWTHORNE Unlike some of his contemporaries on the retro-soul beat - from Winehouse to Morrison to Saadiq - Andrew Cohen does very little to try to modernize the music he makes under the moniker Mayer Hawthorne. On his 2009 debut, “A Strange Arrangement,’’ that’s a good thing. 8 p.m. March 7. $15. Paradise. 877-598-8689. www.livenation.com
JET Although they’ve yet to match the explosive success of their 2003 debut - which spawned a troika of hits including “Are You Gonna Be My Girl’’ and “Look What You’ve Done’’ - these Aussie rockers continue to make hay, albeit less high-profile hay, with their AC/DC meets Oasis stylings on their third release, “Shaka Rock.’’ 8 p.m. March 9. $22.50. Paradise. 877-598-8689. www.livenation.com
SARAH RODMAN
FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Coming off a stellar 2009, this rising country musician with an old-timey flair is still touring behind last year’s “Midnight at the Movies,’’ his superb second full-length album that saw him grow into his own as a songwriter. Fellow roots raconteur Joe Pug opens this installment of the Fenway Recordings Sessions. 9:30 p.m. March 4. $12. Great Scott. www.ticketweb.comJESSE DEE & TIM GEARAN They’re staples on the local music scene, but their styles are disparate enough to make this a complementary evening of retro soul (Dee) and rafter-rattling roots rock (Gearan). 9 p.m. March 6. $13. Paradise Rock Club. 877-598-8689. www.livenation.com
TELEPHUNKEN Behind heading to Austin later this month to try its luck at the South by Southwest music conference, this DJ duo from Madrid will perform its mishmash of funk, electronica, and dance beats with a full band. 8 p.m. March 10. $10. Johnny D’s. 617-776-2004. www.johnnyds.com
JAMES REED
JAZZ, BLUES & CABARET
GUNTHER SCHULLER AND THE NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY JAZZ ORCHESTRA The legendary Schuller conducts the US premiere of his jazz-inspired recomposition of Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf.’’ He will also lead the orchestra through classic big band arrangements from swing to bop and beyond, including Glenn Miller’s 1939 “I Got Rhythm,’’ Woody Herman’s 1945 “Apple Honey,’’ and Robert Graettinger’s 1948 “Autumn in New York.’’ 8 p.m. March 4. Free. NEC’s Jordan Hall. 617-585-1122. www.necmusic.eduNEW ENGLAND LIGHT OPERA PRESENTS “HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN: A NEW 1930s REVIEW’’ The operetta and musical theater company continues its popular Great American Songbook series with songs of the Great Depression, including “Stormy Weather,’’ “Puttin’ on the Ritz,’’ and “All the Things You Are.’’ 8 p.m. March 5. $15-$20. Firehouse Center for the Arts, Market Square, Newburyport. 978-462-7336, www.firehouse.org
BILL FRISELL TRIO Among the most accessibly adventurous musicians in jazz, the idiosyncratic guitarist and bandleader returns to Boston with versatile viola player Eyvind Kang and buoyant drummer Rudy Royston. 8 and 10 p.m. March 5 and 6. $28. Scullers. 617-562-4111, www.scullersjazz.com
THE DAVE MCKENNA TRIBUTE BAND Bassist/bandleader Marshall Wood remembers the late, great McKenna, an overlooked composer as well as one of the finest two-fisted pianists in jazz history. Wood’s quintet - pianist Tim Ray, accordionist/pianist Sonny Barbato, drummer Jim Gwin, and vocalist Donna Byrne - performs arrangements of McKenna’s songs and other tunes he loved. 8 p.m. March 6. $10-$20. Newton South High School, 140 Brandeis Road, Newton Centre. 781-237-1917, www.highlandjazz.org
KEVIN LOWENTHAL
CLASSICAL
ARTEMIS QUARTET This excellent Berlin-based quartet makes its Boston debut with an all-Beethoven program devoted to the Quartets Op. 18, No. 2; Op. 95, “Serioso’’; and Op. 132. 8 p.m. March 5. $45-$58. Jordan Hall. 617-482-6661, www.celebrityseries.orgBOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT For a program titled “Strings Attached,’’ violist Kim Kashkashian is the soloist in Betty Olivero’s mesmerizing “Neharot, Neharot.’’ Also on the bill will be works by Milton Babbitt, Scott Wheeler, Stephen Hartke, and Bartok. 8 p.m. March 6. $10-$52. Jordan Hall. 781-324-0396, www.bmop.org
BOSTON MUSICA VIVA The indefatigable new music advocate Richard Pittman leads his ensemble in a program called “Ocean Crossings,’’ with works by Chou Wen-Chung, Nicholas Maw, and Donald Crockett as well as the premiere of Rand Steiger’s “Elliott’s Instruments,’’ a tribute to Elliott Carter. 8 p.m. March 5. $22. Tsai Performance Center, Boston University. 617-354-6910, www.bmv.org
PAULA ROBISON and PAAVALI JUMPPANEN Flutist and pianist partner for a recital of works by Jolivet, Harris, Copland, and Schubert. 1:30 p.m. March 7. $23. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 617-278-5156, www.gardnermuseum.org JEREMY EICHLER 
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