Results for "Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa"

Raw Materials

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Shape of Things; All the Names; Forgotten System; Remembrance; Frontlash; Five Fingers Make a Fist; Inside the Machine; Stronger than Itself; Come Back; Fly Higher; Common Ground; Rataplan; Hope.

Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials

by Budd Kopman
June 6, 2006

The music of pianist Vijay Iyer and altoist Rudresh Mahanthappa always communicates a feeling of importance, whether they appear individually or together in any of a myriad of groups. The “alter ego" analogy is perhaps a bit stale by now, but their decade-long connection is on full display in Raw Materials. Their musical ...

Vijay Iyer & Rudresh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials

by Paul Olson
June 1, 2006

Pianist Vijay Iyer and alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa are long-time collaborators. Mahanthappa's an important member of Iyer's quartet and vice-versa, and the two have produced a substantial body of recorded work together.The two musicians' ten-year-old Raw Materials duo project, however, has remained officially undocumented until now. The important release of Raw Materials fills a ...