Vijay Iyer

Elected to the Hall of Fame
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    ​Vijay Iyer (left) and Nicole Mitchell perform music by Andrew Hill at Harlem Stage’s Gatehouse on March 1.

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    Jacob Bro performs at the Bergamo Jazz Festival on March 18.

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    The Jakob Bro Trio with, from left, Jorge Rossy, Bro and Arve Henriksen

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    Nate Wooley

    Berlin Jazz Fest Returns to Live

    Jazzfest Berlin returned to in-person concerts Nov. 4–7 with the 58th edition of the acclaimed arts organization’s…

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    Vijay Iyer’s Combat Art!

    By his own account, the Vijay Iyer of a decade ago was made to feel like a “token weirdo” when moving among the…

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    ​Pi founders Yulun Wang (left) and Seth Rosner

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    Mette Rasmussen, shown here performing at Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in 2018, is set to stream a performance on Monday.

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    Bassist and bandleader Dezron Douglas is set to stream a trio set from Smalls on Wednesday.

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    Marc Ribot is on the steering committee of the Music Workers Alliance, which is fighting to protect musicians’ rights.

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    Steve Lehman’s Xenakis And The Valedictorian is the first of Pi Recordings’ digital releases aimed at providing assistance to performers who have lost income due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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    Egberto Gismonti flew to New York from his home in Brazil for ECM Records at 50, a Nov. 1 and 2 celebration of the imprint at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York.

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    Fifty years ago, Manfred Eicher co-founded Edition of Contemporary Music, better known as ECM, and has issued more than 1,600 titles spanning jazz and classical sounds.

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    Saxophonist Melissa Aldana and her quartet pay tribute to artist Frida Kahlo on Visions. The ensemble is set to play the Jazz at the Logan series on April 5.

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    Steve Gadd performs June 27, the opening night of International Festival de Jazz de Montreal.

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    Georgia Anne Muldrow performs June 8 at a CapitalBop showcase during the DC Jazz Festival.

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    Craig Tabor (left) and Vijay Iyer pay tribute to artists and pianists who recently have passed on Transitory Poems.

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    Lewis Porter, whose new album is titled Solo Piano, is in a prolific phase of his career.

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    On June 29, the Impulse! label issued previously unreleased studio recordings by John Coltrane (left), Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner under the title Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album.

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    Kurt Elling performs during the 2018 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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    Vijay Iyer (left) discusses a track with journalist Dan Ouellette during a DownBeat Blindfold Test at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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    Ethan Iverson performs at Umbria Jazz in Perugia, Italy, which ran July 13-22.

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    Dan Weiss performs at the Gent Jazz Festival in Gent, Belgium.

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    Pianist Vijay Iyer topped two categories in the DownBeat Critics Poll: Jazz Artist and Jazz Group (for the Vijay Iyer Sextet).

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    ​Artifacts—a trio comprising cellist Tomeka Reid, flutist Nicole Mitchell and percussionist Mike Reed—recently performed at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina.

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    Cecil Taylor—shown here performing in Cologne, Germany, in 1987—died April 5. He was 89.

    In Memoriam: Cecil Taylor

    Trumpeter Eddie Gale only made one album—the legendary 1966 Unit Structures on Blue Note—with pianist Cecil Taylor,…

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    Pianist Vijay Iyer performed in a variety of settings, including in this sextet, during a four-day showcase at SFJAZZ in January.

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    Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen performs at the star-filled tribute to Geri Allen at Winter Jazzfest in New York.

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    Alexander von Schlippenbach (left), Rudi Mahall, Uli Jennessen and Axel Dörner perform at the Molde Jazz Festival in Norway. (Obscured: bassist Jan Roder)

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    Dan Weiss (left), Rudresh Mahanthappa and Rez Abbasi of the Indo-Pak Coalition will release a new album, Agrima, on Oct. 17.

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    Vijay Iyer (center) performs with the Brentano String Quartet on June 10.

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    Wayne Shorter performs during the April 19 press conference, at which headliners for the 2017 Detroit Jazz Festival were announced.

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    Vijay Iyer (left) and Tyshawn Sorey at Q2 in New York on April 13.

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    Vijay Iyer (left) and Rudresh Mahanthappa perform at the Musicians Against Fascism concert at Symphony Space in New York City on Jan. 19.

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    The sextet Invocation includes Vijay Iyer (left), Johannes Weidenmeuller, bandleader Rez Abbasi, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Dan Weiss.

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    Vocalist Dianne Reeves is the recipient of a 2016 USA Fellowship Award.

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    Former First Lady Laura Bush (left), President George W. Bush, First Lady Michelle Obama and President Obama at the Sept. 24 opening ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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    Pianist Vijay Iyer, shown here in a publicity photo, performed with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Tyshawn Sorey at Chicago’s Constellation on July 1.

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    Kamasi Washington topped three categories in the DownBeat Critics Poll, including Jazz Album of the Year, for his three-disc set, The Epic.

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    Vijay Iyer (left) performs with Wadada Leo Smith at the Met Breuer on March 31.