From Vijay: "_Uneasy_, my trio record with Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey on ECM Records, was named one of the best albums of 2021 in Pitchfork, The New Yorker, JazzTimes, The Boston Globe, PopMatters, BrooklynVegan, and the annual jazz critics' poll housed at The Arts Fuse, among many others! Thank you all for your kind support and your generous ears! If things improve, [...]
Thank you, DownBeat Magazine, for featuring our new album in your June issue! I am truly honored. Link to read: https://archive.maherpublications.com/view/392777337/ As many of you know, I prefer the phrase “gentle ambush.” _Uneasy_, the new trio album with my amazing collaborators Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey, is out now on ECM Records. Vinyl arrives May 28 Photo by [...]
PURCHASE / STREAM Uneasy, with Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh, is Vijay Iyer’s second trio album on ECM and his seventh appearance as a leader on the label. Navigating from one shape-shifting idea to another, he continues to push boundaries from one album to the next. His unique musical approach [...]
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of creative music’s most resourceful players, learned to meld and mesh their artistic approaches inside Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory ensemble (as documented on Mitchell’s 2007 recordingFar Side). Since then, Iyer and Taborn have continued to play concerts together. The Transitory Poems, recorded live at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, [...]
Vijay Iyer named DownBeat Jazz Artist of the Year - The Vijay Iyer Sextet is DownBeat's Jazz Group of the Year! For the 4th time this decade Vijay has been named Artist of the Year by Downbeat, with his band the Vijay Iyer Sextet named Group of the Year on the heels of their highly [...]
