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Vijay Iyer Quartet Investigates a Mutant Jazz Landscape
The Vijay Iyer Quartet trafficks in a surging, complex, mutant strain of post-bop, steeped in portent and incident. Led by Mr. Iyer, a relentlessly probing pianist, the group relies equally on the exertions of the alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, the bassist Stephan Crump and the drummer Marcus Gilmore. It doesn't sound like any other band on ...
Vijay Iyer Quartet Four Nights at the Jazz Standard
Vijay Iyer Quartet to perform for four nights at The Jazz Standard, July 31-August 3 Celebrating the release of Tragicomic on Sunnyside Records Award-winning pianist-composer Vijay Iyer brings his group to New York's premiere jazz club, The Jazz Standard, for four nights this summer: Thursday, July 31 through Sunday, August 3. These performances celebrate his widely ...
Vijay Iyer: Tragicomic
by Lyn Horton
Expressing everything that is possible at one point in time is how art comes about. For visual artists, the limitations of the chosen medium frame and freeze the passion of the art. For musicians, the parameters comply with a different set of conditions. Music is concerned with time and the kinds of changes that occur within ...
Vijay Iyer: Tragicomic & Door
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Vijay Iyer Tragicomic Sunnyside Records 2008 Fieldwork Door Pi 2008 Whether through theatrical productions, poetry collaborations or standard jazz settings, Vijay Iyer uses music to comment on ...
Vijay Iyer: Tragicomic
by Troy Collins
Pianist Vijay Iyer's poly-stylistic take on the jazz tradition has fostered collaborations with a wide spectrum of artists, including M-Base founder Steve Coleman, avant-garde legend Roscoe Mitchell and experimental hip-hop conceptualist Mike Ladd. As a self taught musician with a B.S. in Mathematics from Yale and a Masters in Physics and Ph.D in Technology and the ...
Vijay Iyer's Tragicomic to be Released 4/22/2008 on Sunnyside Records
"The most commanding pianist and composer to emerge in recent years..." --The Village Voice “One of the most important jazz pianists of his generation..." --The Boston Globe “One of the most promising voices in jazz today." --The Chicago Tribune Imagine a pianist with Thelonious Monk's angularity, Cecil Taylor's force, and Andrew Hill's genius, coupled with a ...
Vijay Iyer - Rudresh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials / Vijay Iyer: Reimagining
By Vijay Iyer
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing:
Raw Materials:
01. The Shape Of Things - 3:25;
02. All The Names - 5:04;
03. Forgotten System - 5:43;
04. Remembrance - 4:27;
05. Frontlash 4:23;
06. Five Fingers Make A Fist - 2:58;
07. Inside the Machine - 3:07;
08. Stronger than Itself - 2:17;
09. Come Back - 6:19;
10. Fly Higher - 3:10;
11. Common Ground - 5:54;
12. Rataplan - 4:15;
13. Hope - 6:01.
Reimagining:
01. Revolutions - 6.32;
02. Inertia - 5:19;
03. Song For Midwood - 7:27;
04. Infogee's Cakewalk - 5:36;
05. The Big Almost - 6:42;
06. Cardio - 5:36;
07. Experience - 5:44;
08. Composites - 5:30;
09. Phalanx - 7:29;
10. Imagine - 3:44.
Still Life With Commentator
By Vijay Iyer
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Infogee Rhapsody; Edward L. Bernays Flies the Hindenburg; Been There Done That; Cleaning Up the Mess; Lake Aaron; Jon Stewart on Crossfire; Shep's Brook; Riding on the Intro Graphics to Cable News; Man Channel' Fox 'n' Friends; Holocaust Blog; Cyber-Nut Bucolia; Mount Rather; Latex Thumbs-Up; Redemption Chant; Blog Mom's Anthem; The Last Atrocity.
Tirtha at The Jazz Standard
by Budd Kopman
Tirtha at The Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, NYNovember 6, 2007 Tirtha (pronounced “TEER-tha") is a new project brought together by pianist Vijay Iyer that is a trio including the phenomenal electric guitarist Prasanna and the young virtuoso tabla player Nitin Mitta. This amazing and very exciting ...
Vijay Iyer - Rudresh Mahanthappa: Vijay Iyer - Rudresh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials / Vijay Iyer: Reimagining
by AAJ Italy Staff
È sempre interessante osservare le “dinamiche di coppia" nelle situazioni più diverse: a tu per tu oppure in relazioni con altri soggetti. L'approccio, per così dire, sociopsicologico è chiaramente un piccolo spunto [ma non pretestuoso] per accostare due recenti lavori che vedono il pianista Vijay Iyer e il sassofonista Rudresh Mahanthappa nei due differenti contesti del ...
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