| Iyer, Vijay / Solo |
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| Album: | Solo | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Iyer, Vijay | Added: | Sep 2010 | |
| Label: | Act Music | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-09-12 | Pull Date: | 2010-11-14 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Nov 7 | Oct 17 | Oct 3 | Sep 26 | Sep 19 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 08, 2022: | Rebop Desiring | 4. | Nov 20, 2017: | In Your Ear Radio - Just Waking Uo, Soon Human Nature | |
| 2. | Jul 25, 2022: | Rebop Desiring | 5. | Apr 14, 2017: | Rebop Darn That Dream | |
| 3. | Nov 30, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum Epistrophy | 6. | Mar 16, 2017: | No Cover, No Minimum One For Blount |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2010-09-12 | ||
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VIJAY IYER: Solo ACT Music, 2010 SOLO PIANO – Mixing original works, standards and one pop cover, Iyer creates a whole world on this CD: an idiosyncratic, impressionist landscape like a kind of sonic Seurat painting, built up from tiny, discrete units of deeply saturated color. He reaches back to the origins of jazz in one tune, and then leaps into hypermodernity in the next track, but it all sounds 100% cohesive, points along an unbroken arc. Fo’s Picks: 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 1. 6:07 – 1980s Michael Jackson hit abstracted: tight spiral, rhythmic ebb/flow 2. 4:56 – Monk: gusts of notes swirl and eddy; the melody just peeks through 3. 4:14 – standard ballad blends impressionistic color and saloon piano 4. 4:50 – Ellington: jerky neo-stride piano style, Monk-ish harmonic touches 5. 2:06 – stark and throbbing, cold and steely: approaches, then fades 6. 6:38 – a hail of notes rains down, each one distinct; then a streaming flow 7. 8:29 – delicate intro, bright spirals, a brisk jazz romp and pensive diversions 8. 4:50 – gentle, deep, suspended as if floating freely in a solution 9. 3:37 – Steve Coleman: cerebral, complex, suggesting an abstract groove 10. 7:56 – Ellington: creeps through dark shadows and fog-filtered light 11. 3:03 – oblique yet optimistic, bounces and rolls through odd places [ Fo ] 09/12/10 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Human Nature | 6. | Autoscopy | |||
| 2. | Epistrophy | 7. | Patterns | |||
| 3. | Darn That Dream | 8. | Desiring | |||
| 4. | Black & Tan Fantasy | 9. | Games | |||
| 5. | Prelude: Heartpiece | 10. | Fleurette Africaine | |||
| 11. | One For Blount | |||||