Stanley Clarke: On last year’s “The Message,” the great bass player (Return to Forever, New Barbarians, Animal Logic, George Duke) resurrected the moniker of the Stanley Clarke Band to explore his wide musical palette. There’s fusion, funk, classical, pop-soul, New Age, social commentary and even hip-hop jazz-funk, with rapper Doug E. Fresh on the opening “And Ya Know We’re Missing You” and the closing “To Be Alive.” Compelling stuff, as always. (June 14-15 7 & 9 p.m. Fri.-Sat., Dakota, Mpls., $30-$50, Dakota.cooks.com)
Cecile McLorin Salvant: On last year’s “Window,” her fourth album and third consecutive Grammy winner, the celebrated young jazz vocalist gives a master class. Accompanied by only a pianist (the equally adventurous Sullivan Fortner), the 29-year-old evokes Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and other greats, yet finds her own voice as she interprets lesser-known songs by legendary writers (Richard Rodgers, Cy Coleman, Cole Porter) and one fairly contemporary tune — a wonderfully new vision of Stevie Wonder’s “Visions” — while she takes “Somewhere” from “West Side Story” to new places. (June 19 7 & 9 p.m. Wed., Dakota, $25-$50.)
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