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Album Review

Has anyone out there ever been totally flattened by a record from the first notes? It happens that Pi Recordings was present at a Rudresh Mahanthappa show last week, and I was able to pick up a copy of Fieldworks' Simulated Progress, which I listened to on the way home. “Flattened" is definitely the word, and I felt chagrined that I could not get to the group's show (with a new drummer, Tyshawn Sorey) the next night. ...

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Fieldwork: Simulated Progress

Read "Simulated Progress" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson
July 16, 2005

It's hard to write about the collaborative trio Fieldwork. On their sophomore CD, Simulated Progress, pianist Vijay Iyer, altoist Steve Lehman, and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee play a dazzling, intrepid sort of new jazz that's as deeply interactive as anything you're likely to hear this year. This is Lehman's first CD with the band (he takes the place of tenor player Aaron Stewart) and Kavee's last (his chair having been filled since this recording by Tyshawn Sorey), so Simulated Progress ...

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Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes

Read "Your Life Flashes" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 19, 2002

The first four releases from Pi Recordings feature brilliant but underappreciated veteran jazz giants: Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet. But the label also looks to jazz's future with Your Life Flashes by Fieldwork, a collective trio of inspired and vibrant young jazz men.The group's leader (unofficial, perhaps, but he wrote ten of the twelve tunes) is pianist Vijay Iyer, who sounds like a man possessed here. He's from the percussive school of piano. ...

Album Review

Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes

Read "Your Life Flashes" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2002

A good portion of the Fieldwork trio's music is composed, revealing an originality and maturity in their individual and collective playing of complex yet approachable free sounding pieces for even the most “mainstream" of listeners. Having separately performed with Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams, “Butch" Morris, Anthony Braxton, fellow Pi recording artist Henry Threadgill, and Andrew Hill, to Steve Coleman and Cecil Taylor (whom all three have played with) - Fieldwork is truly a band much greater than the sum ...