THE VIJAY IYER TRIO Feat. Harish Raghavan and Jeremy Dutton
The virtuoso & influential pianist Vijai Iyer, a three-time Grammy Award nominee, has carved out a unique path as an influential, shape-shifting presence in 21st-century music.
He has released twenty-six widely praised albums; received three Grammy nominations, numerous national and international prizes, and a MacArthur Fellowship; has composed for orchestras, soloists and chamber music ensembles and has collaborated with poets, filmmakers, choreographers & musicians from around the world.
His deeply interactive, powerfully expressive musical language is indebted to the composer-pianist lineage that range from Duke Ellington & Thelonious Monk to Alice Coltrane & Geri Allen, the creative music movement of the ‘60s & ‘70s, and rhythmic traditions of South Asia and West Africa.
But Iyer’s artistry finds perhaps its purest expression in his most celebrated group, the Vijay Iyer Trio, praised by NPR as “truly astonishing” and by The New York Times as “one of the best bands in jazz.”