Vijay Visits the Nonesuch Library
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 [...]
Recent Work by Artists Playing Vijay’s Music
In Darkness and Light, pianist Sarah Rothenberg’s new solo recording, features two daunting piano works, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 32 (Op. 111) and Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari, alongside a piece of Vijay's she commissioned [...]
Khan / Iyer / Mitta EP: Sanctuary
In December, together with sarode player Alam Khan (son of the late Ali Akbar Khan) and Nitin Mitta on tabla, Iyer released a collaborative a EP titled Sanctuary. According to San Francisco Classical Voice, “Although it [...]
Live shows in New York, London, Porto, Lisbon
In November Iyer’s quartet with drummer Tyshawn Sorey, bassist Yunior Terry, and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill played a sold-out twelve-set run at the Village Vanguard in New York. Iyer also performed a special concert in New [...]
Fieldwork advance track release: Propaganda
Thereupon is the long-anticipated return of the all-star collaborative trio Fieldwork, which has been described by NPR as a “power trio for the new century.” This long-standing collective comprises three internationally revered innovators of contemporary music: alto saxophonist-composer Steve Lehman, [...]
Vijay & Wadada Leo Smith Release: Defiant Life
"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 [...]