New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Vijay Iyer Trio has announced their first NYC shows since January of 2020, and the first NYC shows since the release of Uneasy (ECM) in April. The trio - Iyer on piano, Tyshawn Sorey on drums, and Linda May Han Oh on bass - will play two sets at Le Poisson Rouge on September 26. Tickets here: https://lpr.com/lpr_events/vijay-early/
Iyer's Uneasy is his first Trio album since 2015's Break Stuff. Uneasy has been hailed as one of the best jazz albums of the year so far, met with a NY Times feature, reviews in the New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, a Best New Music designation from Pitchfork and his 4th Downbeat cover story in 6 years. Watch the video for "Combat Breathing" here:
Iyer also wrote a new piece of music for NPR Morning Edition'sSong Project that concluded the series in June.
Iyer just performed at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park this past weekend, headlining a night of music with the debut of "Tempest," a new, 90-minute work performed by Iyer along with Tyshawn Sorey on drums, Moor Mother and Arooj Aftab on vocals, Daryl Johns on bass and Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet.
Praise for Uneasy:
"Sorey, Oh, and Iyer negotiate complex parameters of rhythm and harmony with the soaring precision of raptors on the wing" - Pitchfork, Best New Music (8.6)
"Iyer could be the poster boy for twenty-first-century jazz...a triumph of small-group interchange and fertile invention" - The New Yorker
"Subtle yet powerful...this album's greatest strengths speak less of the past and more about how these three musicians, acting as equal players, create together in the present" - Wall Street Journal
"Extraordinary...reaffirming his status as one of the most creative figures in improvised music" - Boston Globe
"Could be the definitive political work of this year...It evokes the highest ideals of creative music: not just taking turns but using one's own to spur another's" - Jazz Times
"One of the best albums of the year so far" - Spectrum Culture
"A lithe range of motion and resplendent clarity, in the style of well-schooled jazz musicians, while stoking a kind of writhing internal tension. Crucial to that balance is [the trio's] ability to connect with each other in real time, almost telepathically" - The New York Times, feature
