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Vijay Iyerâs New Trio Is a Natural Fit. Its Album Is âUneasy.â
The pianist teamed up with the bassist Linda May Han Oh and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey for a record that came together during a period of tragedy and unrest.
Vijay Iyerâs trio first came together in 2014 at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. On Friday, the group will release an album called âUneasy.âCredit.Elianel Clinton for The New York Times
April 8, 2021, 11:55 a.m. ET
The pianist Vijay Iyer composed the title track to his new trio album, âUneasy,â back in 2011 for a collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Karole Armitage. It was still a few years before the 2016 presidential campaign, when so many of the countryâs old wounds and resentments would burst onto public display, but he already felt some undercurrents stirring.
The New York Times, and the only “jazz release” in
Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best records of 2017. Iyer’s Sextet was voted 2018 Jazz Group of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Iyer’s previous ECM releases include
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2016), a collaboration with Iyer’s “hero, friend and teacher,” Wadada Leo Smith, which
The Los Angeles Times calls “haunting, meditative and transportive”;
Break Stuff (2015), with a coveted five-star rating in
DownBeat Magazine, featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio, hailed by
PopMatters as “the best band in jazz”;
Mutations (2014), featuring Iyer’s music for piano, string quartet and electronics, which “extends and deepens his range. showing a delicate, shimmering, translucent side of his playing” (