About the artists
THE VIJAY IYER TRIO
Vijay Iyer – piano
Linda May Han Oh – double bass
Tyshawn Sorey – drums
By overwhelming consensus, the VIJAY IYER TRIO has become one of the pivotal jazz bands of the twenty-first century. Described as “the best piano trio in jazz today” (Der Spiegel), “the great new jazz piano trio” (The New York Times), “truly astonishing” (NPR), and “the best band in jazz” (PopMatters), the trio makes “cutting-edge music, but always accessible” (The Guardian) – emotionally resonant and deeply interactive, radiating groove and brimming with polyrhythmic detail, rooted in tradition yet truly innovative in style and form.
Uneasy (2021) Vijay’s trio record with Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey on ECM Records, was named one of the best albums of 2021 in Pitchfork, The New Yorker, JazzTimes, The Boston Globe, PopMatters, BrooklynVegan, and the annual jazz critics’ poll housed at The Arts Fuse, among many others!
Across Europe in the Autumn of 2021, the band played to sold-out venues and jazz festivals in Berlin, Mannheim, London, Rome, Istanbul, and Barcelona, and the group was met with an exuberant response by the audiences and the press alike. London Jazz News spoke of an “extraordinary gig”, The Blue Moment called the group at “the peak of their art” and the German daily Mannheimer Morgen concurred, going as far as calling Vijay’s band “the new standard when it comes to piano trios”. Reviewing Vijay’s performance at the Berlin Jazz festival, the Tagesspiegel called the pianist’s musical concept and the trio’s interaction “none other than impressive”, while the FAZ observed the pianist “operating as emotionally and sensually as one imagines a combination of Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk, and Keith Jarrett would”, drawing the conclusion that “with Vijay’s trio, there’s magic at play”.
