Vijay Iyer – new trio to debut

Vijay Iyer's new trio finds the distinguished pianist-composer-bandleader with revered double bassist Linda May Han Oh and the cult drummer Tyshawn Sorey completing the line-up and whose first album Uneasy featuring Iyer originals, a treatment of …

Published: 25 Feb 2021. Updated: 3 years.

Vijay Iyer's new trio finds the distinguished pianist-composer-bandleader with revered double bassist Linda May Han Oh and the cult drummer Tyshawn Sorey completing the line-up and whose first album Uneasy featuring Iyer originals, a treatment of Geri Allen's 'Drummer's Song' and the standard 'Night and Day', is to be released on 4 April.

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'Children of Flint' from the ECM album will be the first to stream ahead of release with 'Entrustment' then to follow.

Photo: Craig Marsden

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Fusion grandees like '17th-century scientists who thought art and science and philosophy were all the same thing'

OTHER READINGS ''If you love jazz fusion, you’re pretty much guaranteed never to write about it at all, because it is the most unfashionable genre ever invented and invites a disproportionate amount of disdain.'' Fighting talk! Kate Mossman's …

Published: 25 Feb 2021. Updated: 3 years.

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OTHER READINGS ''If you love jazz fusion, you’re pretty much guaranteed never to write about it at all, because it is the most unfashionable genre ever invented and invites a disproportionate amount of disdain.'' Fighting talk! Kate Mossman's affectionate piece in the New Statesman on Chick Corea and her own strictly hush-hush love of fusion.