Vijay Iyer

Break Stuff

ECM

Brilliant piano-trio jazz; warmly recommended.
‘Break Stuff’: what happens after formal considerations… a time for action… breakdowns, breakbeats, break dancing…
Hood is a humbly bamboozled tribute to Robert Hood. Work is for Iyer’s beloved Thelonious Monk. Countdown sets Trane to a West African rhythm. Mystery Woman is driven by the compound pulses of South Indian drumming. There’s a desolate, barely-there solo version of Billy Strayhorn’s Blood Count…

• Starlings
• Chorale
• Diptych
• Hood
• Work
• Taking Flight
• Blood Count
• Break Stuff
• Mystery Woman
• Countdown
• Wrens