Vijay Iyer News

Looking back on 2009, much of the focus naturally falls on younger musicians. Maybe they're just fresh in our minds because A Blog Supreme spent so much time addressing ways to get twentysomethings into modern jazz via the Jazz Now series.

Pianist, composer and band leader Vijay Iyer and the All About Jazz Orchestra are featured on the latest episode of Jazz it Up! Iyer's trio grooves with rhythmic and harmonic pizzazz in the wake of the release of his new recording, Historicity , and the big band whose members coordinated efforts online at AllAboutJazz.com come to New York to play ...

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith blows in two different directions on this two-CD set, Spiritual Dimensions .

Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet , Spiritual-Dimensions . The exploratory trumpeter follows up last year's triumphal Tabligh with a reshuffled quartet and goes himself one better by adding an excursion into electronic territory.

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ACT Music ' Vijay Iyer - Historicity ' giveaway contest starting today.

There's no single answer to the question of what's happening in jazz right now, but "Historicity" by the kinetic trio led by pianist Vijay Iyer represents one reasonable place to start .

I'm no critic, so I'm in no position to declare anything an "Album of the Year." I would simply direct your attention to Vijay Iyer 's Historicity , and let you deduce what jazz can still achieve.

November 12, 2009 from WBGO - Wiqan Ang Miguel Zenon Quartet performs at Newport Jazz.

In "Mystic Brew," pianist Vijay Iyer returns a soulful staple to its jazz roots while infusing it with modernity.

While music has often been used as a rallying cry by musicians and politicians alike, last year's presidential election saw the musical community organize in new and compelling ways around a variety of social, political, and religious issues.

Track Where's the Captain? Artist/Band Zevious Duration 5:10 Album After the Air Raid Record Label Cuneiform Description "The music of Zevious shrewdly juxtaposes order and its opposite: structural intensity pushed to its breaking point in the most appealing way.

Pianist Vijay Iyer has reached the point where aficionados spar over favorite works: the raw, scorching duets with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa? The abstract, avant-garde Fieldwork project with Steve Lehman and Tyshawn Sorey? The large-group, multimedia pieces with spoken poet Mike Ladd? As the buzz about him grows, Iyer now offers a classic ...

Jazz Vijay Iyer Trio, "Historicity" . The most exciting new jazz pianist to come along since Jason Moran and D. D. Jackson, Iyer, at the age of 38, is the great current pianist in the rhapsodic Andrew Hill wing of the great percussive piano tradition .

The Vijay Iyer trio : Stephan Crump, Marcus Gilmore, Vijay Iyer. Lynne Harty The Vijay Iyer trio : Stephan Crump, Marcus Gilmore, Vijay Iyer.

The art of the piano trio has enjoyed a healthy renaissance over the past two decades, as a plethora of new stars have ascended the ranks to uphold and advance the tradition.

Hard to believe it's been 7 years since Steve Lehman graduated from Wesleyan but not surprising when one sees how busy he's been.

JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in November.

Last Tuesday's blogroll update highlighted two things: 1) a lot of cool Jazz Internet 2) my forgetfulness.

Pianist Vijay Iyer navigates the stream of history on his new trio recording, Historicity .

Who would have thought that it would be a drummer to finally, and successfully bridge the worlds of jazz, minimalism, and improvisation? But, it is indeed Tyshawn Sorey, maybe known best for his work with the almost always frenetic players Vijay Iyer and Steve Lehman in the band Fieldwork, or through gigs with Dave Douglas , Steve Coleman and ...