Release Date: 18 March 2016
Label: ECM Records
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
Vladimir Spivakov; Sergej Bezrodny; Alexander Malter; Dietmar Schwalke
Steve Swallow; Michael Rodriguez;Chris Cheek; Steve Cardenas; Gil Goldstein; Adam Nussbaum
Ensemble Modern Orchestra; Rob Rutman; Peter Eotvos
Joe Lovano; Julian Lage; Asante Santi Debriano; Will Calhoun
Tomasz Stanko; Tomasz Szukalski; Dave Holland; Edward Vesala
Bill Connors; Jan Garbarek; Gary Peacock; Jack DeJohnette
Mick Goodrick; Fred Hersch
Judith Berkson; Trevor Dunn; Gerald Cleaver
Vijay Iyer; Wadada Leo Smith
