"This recording session was conditioned by our ongoing sorrow and outrage over the past year’s cruelties, but also by our faith in human possibility." – Vijay Iyer Defiant Life, Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith’s second duo recording for ECM after 2016’s A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke, is a profound meditation on the [...]
The Arts Fuse - Top Jazz Albums of 2024 “The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: The Shape of Jazz That Keeps Us Going - Vijay Iyer #2” JazzTimes 2024 Year in Review, Part 1 - The Rhythm Avant-Garde “It’s a searching and in many ways accessible document, animated by spirits ranging [...]
Vijay Iyer Trio Announces Return To Village Vanguard January 28-February 2, 2025 Vijay Iyer (Piano), Linda May Han Oh (Bass), Tyshawn Sorey (Drums) To Perform Selections From Latest Release Compassion "Irresistibly listenable, an immersive 66 minutes that exhales a particular aesthetic history even as it pulls on the pain and anxiety of our present." [...]
Chris Richards in The Washington Post has named Vijay Iyer Trio's Compassion one of the best pop albums of 2024 so far, alongside Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish, Pet Shop Boys, and Charlie XCX. "This affirming new jazzlike album from pianist-composer Vijay Iyer — joined by Linda May Han Oh on bass and Tyshawn Sorey on [...]
ON SPOTIFY HERE "Earlier this year, Heems released Lafandar, his first solo LP in nine years, and it was our Album Of The Week. Today, Himanshu Suri is already announcing its follow-up, Veena LP. The Sid Vashi-produced single “Manto” is out now, and it features Vijay Iyer... “Inter and trans-generational trauma is something [...]
