All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ACT Music "Vijay Iyer - Historicity" giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 23rd. Click here to enter the contest (Following Vijay Iyer at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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 (THREE STARS out of four stars, ACT).
mapsadaisical (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I couldn’t help but be a little disappointed by the lineup on the South Bank for the London Jazz Festival this year. Jazz to me (as you have probably gathered) is about a risk-taking, non-conformist approach; it is an ever-evolving art-form, not a heritage industry. But on the South Bank this year, voices are “smouldering”, [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Pianist Vijay Iyer's compositions are ferociously paced and fractured with a sense of urgency that informs each note he plays. Historicity's title track opens the record, grabbing the listener immediately with the pianist's unique touch, carrying through on other original compositions such as "Helix"--a ballad on the surface that explodes midway through with frenetic energy....
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Just wanted to correct the record after my preview in last week's Time Out New York and note that Vijay Iyer's drummer last week was Justin Brown, who's been subbing for Marcus Gilmore on a regular basis and doing a great job. A player as rhythmically advanced as Iyer can't hire just any drummer and expect it to work. Then again, not every drummer can handle Iyer's geometric...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Really good piano trios are studies in balance, and with the release of his new album, “Historicity,” his first piano-trio record, Vijay Iyer gives us a new one.
Gear Diary (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... collection of music. So when the newest recording by the talented but relatively unknown pianist Vijay Iyer was being called ‘jazz record of the year’ – even before release – I was quite skeptical to say the least. … [ visit site to read more ] Related posts: Review: ivideosongs.com, The Website Every Budding Musician Needs To See! Announcing Launchpad, Music Making for the 21st Century...
Lerterland (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
My preview of the Vijay Iyer Trio at Jazz Standard, in this week's Time Out New York .
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Why has pianist Vijay Iyer become one of the most discussed young musicians in jazz?
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
A stellar jazz trio + a wide-ranging repertoire = a great record. Pianist Vijay Iyer is happy to stun you, to knock you into awe, to blow your mind. He brings technique, imagination, and wide perspective to his art. Historicity, the first recording wholly devoted to Iyer's trio with bassist Stephen Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore, is a jewel. This trio, along with alto saxophonist...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer has been getting much well deserved publicity for this new trio album, where he explores a wide range of compositions by various musicians and a few originals as well. He is joined on this album by Stephen Crump on bass and Marcus Gilmore on drums. With everyone contributing structural information, the group acts much more as an organic unit than soloist...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... players from the group that recorded the splendid Tabligh (Cuneiform Records, 2008)--keyboardist {{Vijay Iyer = 7901}} and bassist {{John Lindberg = 8771}}--are back for Spiritual Dimensions, with drummers {{Pheeroan AkLaff = 3304}} and {{Don Moye = 9668}} beefing up the horn-and-rhythm-section vehicle...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet, Spiritual-Dimensions (Cuneiform). 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. The first CD again has Vijay Iyer at the piano and synthesizer and John Lindberg on bass, but in place of drummer Shannon Jackson Smith uses two bulwarks...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet, Spiritual-Dimensions (Cuneiform). 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. The first CD again has Vijay Iyer...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Vijay Iyer Trio cover M.I.A.'s "Galang " on their new album, Historicity . The multiculti club banger makes the transition to the conservatory with surprising, tensile grace. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
