Vijay stopped by the Nonesuch office to pick some of his favorite albums from the music library, and share a few words on their choices. Opening music: "Gently Trapped" by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto Vijay Iyer's Nonesuch Selects 0:19 Javanese Court Gamelan nonesuch.lnk.to/JavaCourtGamelan 1:28 Ramnad Krishnan's 'Vidwan: Songs of the Carnatic [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]