Jazz Articles about Fieldwork

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Now and Then - Fieldwork, LaTanya Hall, Tomas Fujiwara new releases, and tunes from Kris Davis and Mary lou Williams

by Hobart Taylor
October 22, 2025

New Music from Fieldwork (Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, and Vijay Iyer), Tomas Fujiwara and Jon Irabagon, and call backs from Kris Davis and Mary Lou Williams.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Kris Davis “Bird Call Blues" from Diatom Ribbons (Live at the Village Vanguard) (Pyroclastic) 00:14 Tomas Fujiwara “Mobilize" from Dream Up (Out Of Your Head) 11:08 Catherine Sikora “7.R" from Warrior (Self-Produced) 15:38 Host Speaks 20:28 Domo Branch “A Memory" from Hand of Gifts (Albina Trust) 22:06 LaTanya Hall ...

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Fieldwork, Matthieu Mazué, Aga Derlak & The Monkious

by Maurice Hogue
September 16, 2025

New releases are always about, but the new ones featured in this episode of OMJ are very, very special. First off, Fieldwork! Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman & Tyshawn Sorey are all formidable musicians in their own right and as the trio Fieldwork the critical acclaim was huge, the potential endless. But it's taken 17 years for the jazz world to hear a Fieldwork recording again. Cue the release of Thereupon with those 17 years of individual experiences combined into this ...

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Fieldwork: Thereupon

by Dan McClenaghan
August 27, 2025

Early in his recording career, pianist Vijay Iyer formed his most compelling group, Fieldwork. The initial album release, Your Life Flashes (Pi Recordings, 2002) broke new ground and put down the roots from which everything Iyer has created in 20-plus years has grown and flourished. Iyer's recording career began in 1995 with Memorophilia (Asian Improv). The ensuing 30 years have seen more than a score of albums from the pianist in a leadership role as well as dozens ...

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Fieldwork: Philadelphia, March 12, 2011

by Dylan McGuire
April 21, 2011

Fieldwork Christ Church Neighborhood House TheatrePhiladelphia, PAMarch 12, 2011 To describe the music of avant-garde jazz trio Fieldwork--featuring polymath/pianist Vijay Iyer, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and saxophonist Steve Lehman--as complex may be an understatement as broad as the group's dedication to exploring the far reaches of harmony, ensemble dynamics, and the physical capabilities of their traditional acoustic instruments. Fieldwork's ability to take a single, stark musical passage and build it and twist and transform it until ...

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Fieldwork: Door

by Lyn Horton
July 11, 2008

The selection of which avenue to follow in music is the whole ball game to sustain the integrity of a particular venture. On Fieldwork's Door, the measure of the music's success has to do with the recognition that it centers within a specific tonal range. The alto sax, played by Steve Lehman, establishes that range. There are no extremes reached here. Mixes of pointillistic textures abound; the flow of any melody is broken up by the rockiness beneath the sonic ...

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Fieldwork: Door

by Troy Collins
June 4, 2008

In the three years since their sophomore recording, Simulated Progress (Pi Recordings, 2005), the collective trio Fieldwork has expanded its scope beyond sophisticated M-Base funk to delve into more expansive territory on Door. Comprised of pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshaw Sorey, Fieldwork operates as a true cooperative, offering a model of balanced collective improvisation and advanced compositional strategies that eschews ego for the sake of the group dynamic.

Iyer is one of the most ...

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Fieldwork: Simulated Progress

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
November 9, 2005

The melodic hooks are not obvious. The harmonies are not lush or comforting. And the rhythms won't be easy to tap along with. But Fieldwork's Simulated Progress is not a free-form blast of notes from three soloists playing near each other. Instead it is a result of careful listening to bring disparate elements together, with room for improvisation within focused forms that are not instantly apparent. Elliptical lines from the saxophone, out-of-phase piano, and skittering grooves are woven in elaborate ...