Album Announcement – Love in Exile
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 [...]
Winter 2021 – Selected News
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 [...]
Downbeat Cover June 2021
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 [...]
New Release – Vijay Iyer – Uneasy – with Linda May Han Oh: double bass; Tyshawn Sorey: drums
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 [...]
New Release: The Transitory Poems
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, [...]
Vijay Iyer named DownBeat Jazz Artist of the Year
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 [...]
#1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart
Far From Over - #1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart for the first week of September Reviews in Rolling Stone, NPR's Fresh Air, NY Times, Pitchfork, LA Times, The Guardian... "If you're looking for the [...]
NEW ALBUM PRE-ORDER: FAR FROM OVER Vijay Iyer Sextet
Vijay Iyer Far From Over Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes Graham Haynes: cornet, flugelhorn, electronics Steve Lehman: alto saxophone Mark Shim: tenor saxophone Stephan Crump: double-bass Tyshawn Sorey: drums Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer’s energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious [...]
Vijay Iyer Named Downbeat’s Artist of the Year
We’re excited to announce that for the second year running, DownBeat Critic’s Poll has named Vijay Iyer Artist of the Year! This is the third time that Vijay has been given the magazine's top award, [...]