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player ready...Jazz: Ensemble Stop-Time, a formidable new Chicago band that addresses everything from ragtime to bebop, will play a free concert 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Bruce Cherry Theater of Olive-Harvey College, 10001 S. Woodlawn Ave. Phone: 312-344-7559.
— Howard Reich
Dance: Provocative Margaret Jenkins is back with “Breathe Normally,” inspired in part by a family reminiscence from Olympia Dukakis and featuring Jenkins’ troupe and Lookingglass Theatre’s Doug Hara; Wednesday through Saturday at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Phone: 312-397-4010.
— Sid Smith
Rock: Part musical collective, part circus, the Olivia Tremor Control rocks with a Salvation Army band’s array of instruments and an imagination that suggests the neo-psychedelic concept album is alive and well; Friday at Lounge Ax. Phone: 773-525-6620.
— Greg Kot
TV: More Oscar coverage than you can shake a naked gold statue at includes “Live From the Academy Awards” at 6 p.m. on WGN-Ch. 9, E! Entertainment Television’s daylong countdown starting at 11 a.m., ABC’s preview show with Geena Davis at 7 p.m. on WLS-Ch. 7 and the shindig itself at 7:30 p.m.
— Allan Johnson
Classical music: Symphony II begins its ninth season at 7 p.m. March 28 in Evanston’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Music director Larry Rachleff will conduct works by Mahler, Elgar and R. Strauss, and soprano Elizabeth Norman will sing Barber’s “Knoxville, Summer of 1915.” Phone: 847-866-6888.
— John von Rhein
Art: Last chance: “The Art of the Motorcycle,” one of the most unlikely exhibitions ever to appear at the Field Museum, Roosevelt Road and Lake Shore Drive, closes 5 p.m. Sunday. Phone: 312-922-9410.
— Alan G. Artner