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Vijay Iyer Trio at Buckley Recital Hall
Courtesy of ECM records | Posted on October 23, 2014
Where
Buckley Recital Hall
Amherst College - route 9
Amherst, MA
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When
Fri, November 14, 2014
8:00 pm
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In an unprecedented series of wins, jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer was honored in five categories of the 2012 DownBeat International Critics Poll, including Jazz Artist of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year (for Accelerando), Jazz Group of the Year (for the Vijay Iyer Trio), Pianist of the Year and Rising Star Composer. No other artist in the 60-year history of the magazine’s poll has ever taken five titles simultaneously. Vijay Iyer is a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. He teaches at Harvard University.
“Exceptional…Iyer has constructed gripping sonic portraits that are at once provocative and accessible, intellectually substantive and sensuously attractive."...