PAUL SIMON

PAUL SIMON (Wednesday and Thursday) Two-thirds of Paul Simon’s three-part retrospective were devoted to his 1980s and 1990s forays into African, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean. That leaves a huge catalog of “American Tunes” dating back to the 1960s: folky, jazzy, poetic, catchy and quietly complicated pop songs to be revisited by Mr. Simon, along with the popera singer Josh Groban, the sibling harmonizers in the Roches, the old-timey revivalist Gillian Welch, the dreamily harmonizing indie-rock band Grizzly Bear and the down-home jazz trumpeter Olu Dara. At 8 p.m., Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Avenue, at Ashland Place, Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100, bam.org; sold out. (Pareles)