Vijay Iyer Trio

Vijay Iyer, one of today’s most acclaimed and respected young American jazz pianists, received the 2010 Musician of the Year award from the Jazz Journalists Association, the 2010 Echo Award (the “German Grammy”) for best international ensemble with his Trio, and the top place in the Down Beat Critics’ Poll “rising star small ensemble of the year” category.
His 2009 recording, Historicity, with Marcus Gilmore, drums, and Stephan Crump, bass, garnered all the top awards from the jazz press, and was named the #1 jazz album of the year by The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, the annual Village Voice jazz critics poll, and the Down Beat International Critics Poll.
The Boston Globe wrote, “Historicity brims with Iyer’s signature method and tone: spectral, spacious, with exquisite use of rhythmic repetitions that lurk in the background and serve as points of departure.” The Los Angeles Times adds, “Bewitching…takes listeners to places they’ve never heard.”