Vijay Iyer is probably best known as a pianist and bandleader in the African-American creative improvisational tradition — most say “jazz” for short — though he’s also several other things in music. He’s a composer of chamber, large ensemble and mixed-media works; a Harvard professor; a student of Indian classical music; a father and New York City resident. Committed as he is to multiplicity, there’s one place you can see many of his interests distilled at once: the trio he’s led for nearly a dozen years.
The album received universal acclaim:
A commanding one-man show. — John Fordham, The Guardian UK
A much-lauded jazz pianist, Iyer plays nimbly in many ensembles and settings–but he really shines on Solo, his first unaccompanied recording, which comes out August 31 on ACT Music + Vision. Bursting with both emotion and intelligence, this album is a dispatch from the vibrant forefront of jazz — Utne Reader
Four Stars! — Rolling Stone Germany
If you want to know where Jazz is in 2010 and where it’s headed, Iyer is among the first musicians to hear — Chris Barton, LA Times
Solo is Iyer’s first unaccompanied recording and it reveals one more thing that he does extraordinarily well — JazzTimes