The four San Diego concerts you don’t want to miss in the coming week

by George Varga

Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi present “A Song of Belarus,” featuring Aliaksandr Yasinski

A Belarus native who now lives in Czechoslovakia, Aliaksandr Yasinski is a virtuoso button-accordion player who can play just about any style with exceptional skill and daring. He will make his U.S. concert debut here next week alongside San Diego violinist Yale Strom and his talent-rich klezmer music band, Hot Pstromi.

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A versatile composer and dazzling accordion soloist, Yasinski is as comfortable performing with an orchestra, string quartet and experimental trio as he is essaying traditional Macedonian folk songs, collaborating with the Prague-based ensemble Jazz Gypsy N Tango and playing progressive-rock with Lake Elsinore drum ace Marco Minnemann (whose other credits include electric guitar greats Joe Satriani and Mike Keneally).

Classically trained, Yasinski is a master of the bayan, a chromatic button accordion that seemingly requires musicians who play it also be math wizards to keep track of the dizzying number of fingering positions required to perform on it.

He also plays a Batanola MB-1 button accordion MIDI-controller — short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface — which allows any number of instruments and computers to interact with each other and be triggered in any combination. It also enables him to play faster lines and get broader chords than on a piano accordion.

For his San Diego debut concert, Yasinksi will play two unaccompanied solo pieces and will perform with Strom and Hot Pstromi, whose lineup includes noted singer Elizabeth Schwartz, bassist Luke Little and guitarist (and San Diego Music Hall of Fame inductee Fred Benedetti). Their repertoire will include improvisation-fueled music from Belarus and other Eastern European countries, as well as from the Middle East, with some Strom originals mixed in.

7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. Rhapsody Hall, 5500 Campanile Drive, SDSU. Free. music.sdsu.edu

Turnstile

There are good reasons why this Baltimore hardcore-punk quintet’s admirers include everyone from Demi Lovato and Metallica’s James Hetfield to Charli XCX and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford.

Turnstile’s latest album, the audacious “Never Enough,” finds the band deftly incorporating elements of pop, rock, funk, jazz and 1980s New Wave in a way that feels liberating, not commercially calculating.

They top the bill here Friday night at a four-act show that also includes Amyl & The Sniffers, Speed and Jane Remover.

7 pm. Friday, Oct. 10. Gallagher Square at Petco Park, 840 K St., San Diego. $82.25. ticketmaster.com

Shunzo Ohno

Longtime New York resident, Japanese trumpeter Shunzo Ohno rose to prominence in the 1980s performing with Gil Evans and Machito.

He is the subject of the film documentary “Never Defeated,” which chronicles Ohno’s recovery from a severe 1988 car accident and from a throat cancer that necessitated removing 120 muscle structures from his face, neck and shoulders. He then taught himself to play trumpet anew.

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Never defeated, indeed.

8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. Dizzy’s at Arias Hall, 1717 Morena Blvd., Bay Park. $20 at the door. dizzysjazz.com

Bill Charlap Trio

Pianist Bill Charlap counts Barbra Streisand, Steely Dan, Diana Krall and former San Diego trumpeter Brian Lynch among his many collaborators. Another is his wife. acclaimed pianist Renee Rosnes.

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As a band leader, he has a vast repertoire of jazz classics, Broadway musical chestnuts, Tin Pan Alley favorites and vintage pop songs that pre-date the mid-1950s rise of rock ‘n’ roll.

Charlap plays hem all with exemplary taste. He’ll be accompanied for his two performances here this weekend by bassist David Wong and drummer Carl Allen.

5:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 11. The JAI, 7600 Fay Ave., La Jolla. $75-$81. theconrad.org