![]() He was barely acclimated: a month earlier, directly after closing the deal, he’d hit the road behind his March trio release, Accelerando. Unopened boxes dotted the parlor floor of Iyer’s triplex in a Harlem brownstone. ![]() “A lot of that involved generating language that would surround the music itself so that people could understand it,” “I had to find a way to create a space for myself to do what I wanted,” Iyer explained in April. ![]() A day late for pianist-composer-educator-conceptualist Vijay Iyer’s 46th birthday, here’s an omnibus post, containing a “director’s cut” of a 2012 DownBeat cover piece, a 2008 feature in the Indian magazine Rave, a 2001 article focusing on him and then-partner Rudresh Mahanthappa, and an uncut Blindfold Test from 2007.Ĭoming of age during the ‘90s and early ‘00s, pianist-composer Vijay Iyer considered it almost as essential to define his terms of engagement as to express himself in notes and tones. ![]()
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