Vijay Iyer

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the ACT Music Vijay Iyer - Historicity giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on December 23rd.

Historicism, as a philosophical premise, allows outside conditions to influence an organic process like improvised music. In a session from WBGO, the much-celebrated pianist Vijay Iyer (who just released an album called Historicity) conducts a conversation between his trio and the original creators.

The jazz trio continues its outstanding work, reflecting in their music our age of information and chatter. And they do ...

Saxophonist and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenon highlights his new CD, Esta Plena, and leads into the Vijay Iyer Trio, which performs selections from Historicity. Both hold up beautifully to repeated listening; hear selections from the two at Newport in Surround Sound for JazzSet.

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In the last few years some enterprising younger players have reinvented the piano, bass and drums jazz combo. It's not just that these trios play contemporary pop. It's a shift in attitude. Vijay Iyer's ...

Really good piano trios are studies in balance, and with the release of his new album, “Historicity,” his first piano-trio record, Vijay Iyer gives us a new one.