Release Date: 18 March 2016
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602547699565
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
'a cosmic rhythm with each stroke' features pianist Vijay Iyer and the musician he has described as his "hero, friend and teacher", trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.
Vijay has previously played extensively with Wadada in Smith's Golden Quartet, but the present album is the first documentation of their duo work, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York's Avatar Studios in October 2015. The centrepiece of the album is the spellbinding title suite, dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990), the innovative Indian artist whose improvisatory imagery evokes abstracted rhythms. Trumpet and piano interact here with creative sensitivity to tone, texture and space.
Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith will be premiering 'a cosmic rhythm with each stroke' at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in March 2016 in the context of a major exhibition dedicated to Nasreen Mohamedi's art and writings.
The "Suite for Nasreen" is framed on the album by Iyer's composition "Passage" and Smith's concluding piece "Marian Anderson", inspired by the great US contralto.
Personnel: Vijay Iyer (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics), Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet)
Tracklisting
Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Matthew Bourne
Various Artists
The Residents
The Residents
Sun Ra
Elton Dean
Soft Head
Mike Osborne Trio
