Chicago saxophonist Chris Greene has made a career of following his musical instincts wherever they lead, crossing the boundary lines of musical genres with his imagination as his passport. For nearly 15 years, with only a single change in personnel, he’s been aided and abetted by his quartet colleagues—Albuquerque native Damian Espinosa (piano, keyboards), Marc Piane (bass), and Steve Corley (drums). That continuity of personnel allows the quartet to function with what seems like a single brain, and they’ll be exercising that brain this week at two concerts in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque and Corrales.

Jazz comes in many flavors and nationalities, as these three new releases perfectly demonstrate. On La Misteriosa musica della Regina Loana, the duo of Italians Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia pay homage to author Umberto Eco with a delightful out-of-the-box offering. Canadian Jacques Kuba Séguin serves up sophisticated compositions with his sextet on Migrations. Tom McDermott, an adopted son of New Orleans, shares his love of Scott Joplin on his mostly solo and, as usual, idiosyncratic release Tom McDermott Meets Scott Joplin.