Vijay Iyer

Blood Sutra

Dubbed one of the “new stars of jazz” by U.S. News & World Report, and one of “today’s most important pianists” by The New Yorker, VIJAY IYER is a singular talent – a forceful, rhythmically invigorating performer who weds a cutting-edge sensibility to a unique sense for compositional balance. In a Village Voice feature on Iyer, Gary Giddins wrote, “He has aligned himself with the percussive school of jazz piano… but he doesn’t sound like any of them. His sound is his own, and you would recognize it in a blindfold test.” An exceptional, forward-thinking composer, Iyer draws from African, Asian, and European musical lineages to create fresh, original music in the American creative tradition. His music strikes you as both emotionally expressive and structurally sophisticated, with exuberant improvisations anchored in cyclical rhythmic structures and ringing harmonies. He recently received the 2003 Alpert Award in the Arts, a prestigious year-long fellowship to support his innovative, compelling work.

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Contents:

1. Proximity (Crossroads)
2. Brute Facts
3. Habeus Corpus
4. Ascent
5. When History Sleeps
6. Questions of Agency
7. Kinship
8. Stigmatism
9. That Much Music
10. Imagined Nations
11. Because of Guns (hey joe redux)
12. Desiring