Solo - Vijay Iyer
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  • Summary: The pianist's follow-up to last year's Historicity, where he worked as part of a trio, is a solo album of originals and covers.
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  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
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  1. Solo is Iyer's grand statement, and with it he has fulfilled his promise.
  2. Iyer structures this programme cannily, beginning with an inviting interpretation of the pop ballad Human Nature, unfolding over a rocking left-hand vamp and briefly darkening into a hypnotic drone.
  3. Fourteen years on from his debut as leader, Vijay Iyer joins the club with a characteristic blend of tasteful tribute and exciting unorthodoxy.
  4. 60
    There's an intriguing version of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" and tunes by Monk and Ellington alongside originals that lurch from freaky modernism to stately classical. [Oct 2010, p.108]

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