Vijay is pleased to announce the new album Love in Exile with Grammy winner Arooj Aftab and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily. Available for Pre-order/Pre-save, stay tuned for the official release date and more information on this exciting project. At their 2018 debut performance, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily’s immediate, potent chemistry surprised even [...]
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, [...]
