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Article: Live Review

Vijay Iyer Trio at Brooks Center for the Performing Arts

by Mark Sullivan
January 19, 2015

Vijay Iyer Trio Brooks Center for the Peforming Arts Utsey Chamber Music Series Clemson, SC 1/15/2015 The Vijay Iyer Trio's performance at Clemson University's Brooks Center for the Perfoming Arts was the first jazz programmed as part of the long-running Utsey Chamber Music Series. As the presenter pointed out ...

Article: Lyrics

I 10 Cd nel CD Player di... Phil Markowitz

by Vincenzo Roggero
January 15, 2015

01. Count Basie/Duke Ellington -The Count Meets the Duke (Columbia -1961). Incontro ai massimi livelli. Sicuramente la sfida ha tirato fuori il meglio da tutti i grandi solisti, che suonano con grande personalità e swing, con Basie e Duke insieme a sciorinare ritornelli blues. Tutto quello che c'è da sapere su come si suona il ...

Article: Year in Review

Mark F. Turner's Best of 2014

by Mark F. Turner
January 9, 2015

Typically, when music is labeled it gets thrown into a box that limits its artistic scope. But the four letter word “jazz" in today's environment obliterates typical categorization as found in these diverse releases. Ambrose Akinmusire The imagined savior is far easier to paint (Blue Note)

News: Performance / Tour

Vijay Iyer: Jazz is 'the music of the people'

January 9, 2015

Vijay Iyer speaks with missionary fervor about jazz. For this young award-winning pianist and 2012 recipient of a MacArthur “Genius Grant," playing jazz has little to do with fame. “The arts are a life of service," Iyer said, speaking from his home in New York City. “It's not just about success for yourself," he added. “If ...

Album

Mutations

By Vijay Iyer

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea; Mutation I: Air; Mutation II: Rise; Mutation III: Canon; Mutation IV: Chain; Mutation V: Automata; Mutation VI: Waves; Mutation VII: Kernel; Mutation VIII: Clade; Mutation IX: Descent; Mutation X: Time; When We're Gone.

Album

Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project

By Vijay Iyer

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2014
Track listing: Here (Mike, Cambridge); Derelict Poetry (Maurice, Brooklyn); Capacity (Lynn, Bronx); Walking with the Duppy (Rashan, Queens); There is a Man Slouching in the Stairway (Maurice); My Fire (Brad, Chester, NC); On Patrol (Maurice, Brooklyn); Dream of an Ex-Ranger (William, Newton, MA); Name (Lynn, Bronx); Costume (Mike, Cambridge); Tormented Star of Morning (Maurice, Brooklyn); Patton (Calvin, Massapequa, NY); Shush(Maurice, Brooklyn); REM Killer (Kirk, Lexington, KY); Requiem for an Insomniac (Maurice, Brooklyn); Dreams in Color (Lynn, Bronx); Mess Hall (Merrin, San Diego).

Article: Live Review

Steve Coleman and Five Elements at SFJAZZ

by Harry S. Pariser
December 24, 2014

Steve Coleman and Five Elements SFJAZZ San Francisco, CA December 14, 2014 “The main thing that I consciously try to follow is things I find in nature, in universe. Basically I see the universe as sort of giant palette of forms within forms."--Steve Coleman He is a 2014 MacArthur ...

Article: Film Review

Vijay Iyer/Prashant Bhargava: Radhe Radhe, Rites of Holi

by Ian Patterson
December 22, 2014

Vijay Iyer/Prashant Bhargava Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi ECM 2014 Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi is a sumptuous visual and sonic collaboration between Vijay Iyer and film maker Prashant Bhargava. It was commissioned by Emil Kang, Executive Director of the Carolina Performing Arts as part of a wider series ...

News: Music Industry

Katherine McVicker Launches New Booking Agency Music Works International

December 17, 2014

Music Industry Veteran Katherine McVicker has launched a new booking agency, Music Works International. Based in Reading, Mass, the new agency represents an international roster that includes Dianne Reeves, David Sanborn, Jason Moran, Lalah Hathaway, & Ruthie Foster, Plus Stars Lizz Wright, Kurt Elling, Vijay Iyer, Joshua Redman, Richard Bona, The Gloaming, Justin Kauflin, and Martin ...

News: Recording

Vijay Iyer Trio - Break Stuff (ECM Records)

December 8, 2014

Break Stufff features Vijay Iyer's long-running and widely-acclaimed trio with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore, a band in existence for eleven years now. “We keep learning from each other and from experiences and try to set challenges for ourselves so that growth is part of the equation." It's a group whose musical language is ...