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bass piano drums STEPHAN CRUMP VIJAY IYER MARCUS GILMORE VIJAY IYER TRIO APRIL LOEB FRI | 8 PM FRIENDS SUPPORT FROM: DR. NANCY DIMARTINO 52013 & STEPHEN BORGHI ABOUT THE VIJAY IYER TRIO the Vijay Iyer Trio DownBeat and on CMJ Radio. This trio is also Acclaimed pianist-composer documented on Vijay’s albums Vijay Iyer and his colleagues Reimagining (Savoy/Pi, 2006), Marcus Gilmore (drums) and Tragicomic (Sunnyside, 2008), Stephan Crump (bass) have and Historicity (ACT, 2009). updated the classic jazz piano trio, creating a powerful, cutting- Vijay Iyer edge new music that is firmly Piano grounded in groove and pulse, but also rhythmically intricate Grammy-nominated composer- and highly interactive; fluidly pianist Vijay Iyer was described improvisational, yet uncannily by Pitchfork as “one of the most synchronized; emotionally interesting and vital young compelling, as well as innovative pianists in jazz today,” by The in texture, style, and musical New Yorker as one of “today’s form. Their original music is most important pianists… influenced by the jazz piano titans extravagantly gifted… brilliantly such as Thelonious Monk, Duke eclectic,” and by the Los Angeles Ellington, Andrew Hill and Cecil Weekly as “a boundless and Taylor; the classical sonorities of deeply important young star.” His composers such as Reich, Ligeti, most recent honors include an Debussy, and Bartok; a wide range unprecedented “quintuple crown” of rock, soul, funk,hip-hop, dub, in the Down Beat International electronica, and African music; Critics Poll (winning Jazz Artist and the rhythmic vitality and of the Year, Pianist of the Year, melodic nuance of the music of Jazz Album of the Year, Jazz Iyer’s Indian heritage. Howard Group of the Year, and Rising Reich wrote in The Chicago Star Composer categories), as Tribune: “The three players well as the $275,000 Doris Duke practically have become a single Performing Artist Award and rhythmic organism... one of the the $30,000 Greenfield Prize, all great rhythm units of the day.” awarded in 2012. He was voted March 2012 marked the release of the 2010 Musician of the Year by The Vijay Iyer Trio’s Accelerando the Jazz Journalists Association, on ACT Music + Vision, and nine and named one of the “50 Most months later the album Influential Global Indians” by reached #1 in Rhapsody’s annual GQ India. Iyer has released critics poll, JazzTimes annual sixteen albums as a leader; critics poll, and topped ‘Best of his most recent, Accelerando Year’ lists The New York Times, (2012), an “early front-runner Los Angeles Times, National for jazz album of the year” (The Public Radio, PopMatters.com, New York Times), is an intense, ABOUT THE VIJAY IYER TRIO visceral, and widely acclaimed and High Priest of Antipop follow-up to the multiple-award- Consortium; South Asian winning Historicity (2009), percussionist-producers Karsh both featuring the Vijay Iyer. Kale, Suphala, and Talvin Singh; Historicity was a 2010 Grammy filmmakers Haile Gerima and Nominee for Best Instrumental Bill Morrison; choreographer Jazz Album, and was named Karole Armitage; and poets Mike #1 Jazz Album of the Year in Ladd, Amiri Baraka, Charles The New York Times, The Los Simic, and Robert Pinsky. Angeles Times, the Chicago His compositions have been Tribune, the Detroit Metro commissioned or performed by Times, National Public Radio, The Silk Road Ensemble, Ethel, PopMatters.com, the Village Brentano String Quartet, JACK Voice Jazz Critics Poll, and Quartet, American Composers the Downbeat International Orchestra, Hermès Ensemble, Critics Poll. The trio won the and Imani Winds. 2010 Echo Award for best international ensemble and the A polymath whose career 2012 Downbeat Critics Poll for has spanned the sciences, the jazz group of the year. humanities and the arts, Iyer received an interdisciplinary Iyer’s many other honors include Ph.D. in the cognitive science the Alpert Award in the Arts, the of music from the University New York Foundation for the of California, Berkeley. He has Arts Fellowship, and numerous published articles in Journal of composer commissions. Iyer’s Consciousness Studies, Wire, many collaborators include his Music Perception, JazzTimes, generation’s fellow forward- and The Best Writing on thinkers Rudresh Mahanthappa, Mathematics: 2010. In 2013, he Rez Abbasi, Craig Taborn, will become Director of Banff Ambrose Akinmusire, Liberty Centre’s International Workshop Ellman, Steve Lehman and in Jazz and Creative Music, Tyshawn Sorey; elder creative an annual 3-week program in music pioneers such as Steve Alberta, Canada founded by Coleman, Roscoe Mitchell, piano legend Oscar Peterson. Wadada Leo Smith, Butch Morris, George Lewis, and Amina Claudine Myers; new- music experimenters Miya Masaoka, Pamela Z, and John Zorn; hip-hop innovators Dead Prez, Das Racist, DJ Spooky, ABOUT

Stephan Crump named one of the year’s best by Bass NPR and declared “a low-key marvel” by JazzTimes. Crump Memphis-bred, Grammy- launched his solo performance nominated bassist/composer career as an invited artist at Stephan Crump is a rising star the 2009 International Society on the New York music scene. of Bassists conference and has Shunning barriers of genre, he since released two recordings has performed and recorded in documenting his free-improvised the U.S. and across the globe with duo collaborations with both a diverse list of artists—from alto saxophonist Steve Lehman late blues legend Johnny Clyde and pianist James Carney. He is Copeland to Portishead’s Dave currently working on another McDonald, Patti Austin, The duo collaboration with visionary Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano, guitarist/composer Mary Big Ass Truck, Dave Liebman, Halvorson. Billy Hart, Sonny Fortune, Greg Osby, Kenny Werner, Marcus Gilmore The Mahavishnu Project and Drums Bobby Previte, among others. As a longtime collaborator with Gilmore was inspired by the adventurous jazz composers music of his grandfather, (since 1999 with Vijay Iyer) legendary jazz drummer Roy as well as guitar wizard Jim Haynes, who gave him his Campilongo and radiant singer- first set of drums at age 10. songwriter Jen Chapin, he has He took naturally to jazz as become known for the elegance well as classical theory and and purposeful groove of his percussion. He has performed acoustic and electric bass around the world with some of playing, and for transforming today’s best known jazz artists, his instrument into a speaking including Chick Corea, Gonzalo entity with magnetic pull on Rubalcaba, Natalie Cole, Clark audiences. As a composer, Crump Terry, Cassandra Wilson, Steve is emerging as a singular voice, Coleman, Ravi Coltrane, Dave one who “avoids obvious routes Douglas, John Clayton, Christian but manages never to lose his Scott, Flying Lotus and many way” (The New York Times). His others. Gilmore joined Vijay music can be heard in numerous Iyer’s group in 2003, at the age films and on his six critically of 16. He also leads his own acclaimed albums, the latest of ensemble, and recently debuted a which, Reclamation, featuring commissioned suite of his music, his all-string Rosetta Trio, has titled “American Perspicacity.” been lauded by The New Yorker for its “ingenious originals”,