May 24, 2012

Vijay Iyer live at 32nd Leverkusener Jazztage 2011


Vijay Iyer, piano
recorded live at Forum, Leverkusen, November 6, 2011

1. One For Blunt
2. Imagine

About Vijay´s album "Solo" I wrote earlier on this blog. Accelerando is the follow-up to the Vijay Iyer Trio's Grammy-nominated Historicity – voted the No. 1 jazz album of 2009 around the world, including in the Downbeat critics' poll and by The New York Times
Vijay Iyer's career has moved on an ever-accelerating arc over the past decade and a half, with the Indian-American artist earning a slew of international honors for his intrepid, multi-hued vision of 21st-century music. The latest chapter of this compelling story in contemporary jazz comes with the Vijay Iyer Trio's Accelerando, an album driven by the visceral, universal, intoxicating experience of rhythm. Accelerando sees Iyer and his telepathic trio mates – bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore – go both deep and wide. They light up material that ranges from a brace of bold Iyer originals and pieces by great jazz composers (Duke Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Henry Threadgill) to surprising interpretations of vintage and recent pop and funk tunes (Michael Jackson, Heatwave, Flying Lotus). Absorbing and infectious, this is jazz about not only the mind but the body.


4 comments:

bogard said...

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anon'n'on said...

looks great thanks

Paco's brother said...

Many thanks to post this artist, I've never heard before and I like.
Bonjour de France

Otis Foster said...

Thanks for access to tis interesting session