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
Tord Gustavsen; Harald Johnsen; Jarle Vespestad
Wolfgang Muthspiel; Scott Colley; Brian Blade
Maxim Rysanov; Dasol Kim; Roman Mints; Kristina Blaumane; BBC Concert Orchestra; Dobrinka Tabakova
John Taylor; Marc Johnson; Joey Baron
Vox Clamantis; Ene Salumae; Jaan-Eik Tulve
Rolf Lislevand
Keith Jarrett; Gary Peacock; Paul Motian
Signum Quartett
Alan Barnes Quartet
Fred Hersch Trio
Noah Preminger
Harper Trio
Samuel Blaser
Anne Paceo
Robert Mitchell
Gregory Groover Jr.
