Uneasy

Touching on both Cole Porter and Eric Garner, this long-time trio invigorate bop with thrilling, socially conscious free jazz. — The Guardian, 23rd April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th May 2021
Catalogue No: 3536241
Label: ECM

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180g audiophile vinyl pressing. Tip-On Gatefold packaging. Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and a different spectrum of colours".

Repertoire on 'Uneasy', recorded at Oktaven Audio Studio in Mount Vernon, New York in December 2019, includes Iyer originals written over a span of 20 years, plus Gerri Allen's "Drummer's Song" and a radical recasting of Cole Porter's "Night and Day."

Vijay Iyer: piano

Linda May Han Oh: double bass

Tyshawn Sorey: drums

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23rd April 2021

Touching on both Cole Porter and Eric Garner, this long-time trio invigorate bop with thrilling, socially conscious free jazz.

July 2021

The album is aptly titled – Iyer is a clean, lyrical pianist, yet his compositions have a stormy undertow which Sorey and Oh expertly draw out. The music develops through collective improvisation, but it’s supremely focused and tight. These formal qualities are combined with a keen political edge.

May 2021

These grade-A players cohere impressively on what is a session that pushes the vocabulary of previous releases such as Historicity and Break Stuff further down a personal evolutionary road. Iyer’s originals, particularly ‘Children Of Flint’ and ‘Combat Breathing’, both of which address abhorrent injustice in America, are impressive insofar as they evoke vivid moods by way of arrangements in which the rhythmic energy is tightly gripped, if not contained and off-grid melodic motifs are imbued with the gravitas associated with such as Randy Weston or Abdullah Ibrahim. The fire crackles rather than rages.

15th April 2021

Even as they negotiate complex parameters of rhythm and harmony, the trio’s expertly attuned playing evokes the openness of improvisation and the urgency of justice.

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