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- Artist(s): Vijay Iyer
- Summary: The latest release from the jazz trio features music inspired by Detroit techno DJ Robert Hood, Thelonious Monk, West African music, and the novel Open City.
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- Record Label: ECM
- Genre(s): Jazz, Piano Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Progressive Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
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Feb 10, 2015This is cutting-edge music, but always accessible.
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Feb 10, 2015Like the pianist and composer’s other trio records, it makes for a satisfying, portable Iyer.
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Feb 10, 2015This trio aims at an interior center, finds it, and pushes out, projecting Iyer & Co.'s discoveries.
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Feb 10, 2015The band’s refractive language makes sense of whatever material it plays. You don’t hear the record and seize on its sense of rupture or argument. Instead, it sounds whole.
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Feb 26, 2015This trio remains one of the ongoing jazz ensembles that seems to discover new things at every turn, that seems simultaneously on the cutting edge and embedded deep in the music’s history.
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