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Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd: Still Life with Commentator
by Lyn Horton
The oratorio that we all know is Handel's Messiah. This musical form approaches that of opera. The only difference is that there is no acting and huge performance ethic. An oratorio unfolds a chain of isolated yet interrelated parts that address the overall concept of the piece. Once again keyboardist Vijay Iyer and vocalist Mike Ladd ...
Uncertainty Principles
by AAJ Staff
By Vijay Iyer For me, this month brings an unusual confluence of several disparate projects and encounters. On March 6th, I celebrate the release of a new album, Still Life with Commentator, created in collaboration with poet/hiphop artist Mike Ladd and a stellar electroacoustic ensemble, which we will bring to UCLA on the ...
Raw Materials
By Vijay Iyer
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
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 and Rudresh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials
by Troy Collins
After being introduced to one another by M-Base saxophonist Steve Coleman a decade ago, pianist Vijay Iyer and alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthapa have shared a long and fruitful career together. Both are founding members in each other's ensembles: Mahanthappa is the principle foil in Iyer's long running quartet, and vice versa in Mahanthappa's own group. Recently ...
Reimagining
By Vijay Iyer
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Revolutions 2. Inertia 3. Song For Midwood 4. Infogee's Cakewalk 5. The Big Almost 6. Cardio 7. Experience 8. Composites 9. Phalanx 10. Imagine
Vijay Iyer
by Celeste Sunderland
Four years ago saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell needed a last-minute replacement to fill the piano seat on his European tour. He called Vijay Iyer.It was a breakthrough gig for the young pianist. When he got home to New York he played a tape recording for some friends. “I was like, 'Guess who this ...
Vijay Iyer: Reimagining
by Rex Butters
Vijay Iyer inhabits a musical universe like no other. Juxtaposing deceptively familiar jazz structures with scales and modes more intimate with Indian and classical musics, Iyer has successfully reinvented jazz syntax while remaining unmistakably a jazz artist. He illuminates his reimaginings with a vicious virtuosity usually corroborated by the equally remarkable Rudresh Mahanthappa on saxophone. Mahanthappa's ...
Vijay Iyer: Reimagining
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Whorls of piano, insistent rhythm, and keening saxophone evince a sense of urgency on “Revolutions, opening pianist Vijay Iyer's Reimagining and establishing its tone. For several years, Iyer has gained critical notice for his technique and its application in a variety of settings. His personalized sound draws from contemporary styles, traditional world music, and jazz and ...
Vijay Iyer: Part 2-2
by Paul Olson
Part 1 | Part 2 New York pianist/composer Vijay Iyer may be the musician of 2005. With his remarkable quartet and their fine new CD Reimagining, his collaborative, experimental trio Fieldwork (whose new CD Simulated Progress should turn some heads when it's released in July), his past and future collaborations with spoken-word/experimental hip-hop ...
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