Release Date: 15 March 2019
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602577301193
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Pianists Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, two of creative music's most resourceful players and two of its most distinctive improvisers, learned to meld and mesh their artistic approaches inside Roscoe Mitchell's Note Factory ensemble in 2002.
Since then, Iyer and Taborn have continued to play concerts together. The Transitory Poems, recorded live at the Franz Liszt Academy, Budapest, in March 2018, is their first duo album. A marvel of shared invention, it incorporates pieces offered as tributes to formative influences including pianists Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams and Geri Allen, and the painter and sculptor Jack Whitten.
Iyer and Taborn's first shared ECM credit was the 2007 Roscoe Mitchell album Far Side (recently reprised in the box set The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles) but each has a considerable body of acclaimed recordings made for the label over the past decade.
Personnel: Vijay Iyer (piano), Craig Taborn (piano)
Tracklisting
Hakon Aase; Leo Svensson Sander; Ayumi Tanaka; Ole Morten Vagan; Thomas Stronen
Zakir Hussain; Hariprasad Chaurasia; John McLaughlin; Jan Garbarek
Keith Jarrett
Wu Wei; Martin Stegner; Janne Saksala
John Scofield; Dave Holland
Anouar Brahem; Jan Garbarek; Shaukat Hussain
Zehetmair Quartett
Meredith Monk; Ellen Fisher; Katie Geissinger; Joanna Lynn-Jacobs; Allison Sniffin; John Hollenbeck
Stephane Kerecki; Marc Copland; Tore Brunborg; Fabrice Moreau; Ralph Alessi
Quatuor Hanson; Philippe Hattat; Theo Fouchenneret; Emmanuel Jacquet; Rodolphe Thery
Ensemble Fractales; Elis Hallik
Ensemble InterContemporain
Carla Rees, RSNO Wind Ensemble
Silvia Tarozzi; Deborah Walker; Julia Eckrardt
Orchestre Victor Hugo; Orchestre National de Bretagne
Alexej Gerassimez, SIGNUM saxophone quartet
