Wells Fargo Jazz 105

TRIO 3 PLUS VIJAY IYER

Oliver Lake, Saxophone Reggie Workman, Bass Andrew Cyrille, Drums Vijay Iyer, Piano

Charleston Gaillard Center June 3, 7:00pm Martha and John M. Rivers Performance Hall

1 hour, 30 minutes | Performed without an intermission

About the Artists

TRIO 3 is, simply put, a VIJAY IYER was named DownBeat band without a leader. The magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year for unconventional collaboration of 2012, 2015, and 2016, and Artist of the internationally recognized jazz Year in Jazz Times’s Critics’ Picks and masters—Oliver Lake (multi- Readers’ Poll for 2017. He received a 2013 reeds), Reggie Workman (bass), MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Doris and Andrew Cyrille (drums)— Duke Performing Artist Award, and a 2011 formed to centralize the Grammy nomination. Iyer has released 21 members’ creative energies and albums, including Far From Over (ECM, promote a single governing principle: organic improvisation. 2017), with the Vijay Iyer Sextet, which topped numerous year- Everyone is a distinct soloist but it’s definitely an unadulterated end critics polls and was cited as “2017’s jazz album to beat” in group-based effort. Open to infinite possibilities, Trio 3 mixes Rolling Stone; A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM, 2016), and explores different sound colors traversing the whole with Wadada Leo Smith, named Best New Music by Pitchfork; vocabulary of jazz to take the music to the future. Collectively, and Break Stuff (ECM, 2015), with the Vijay Iyer Trio, winner of the members of Trio 3 have played with pivotal jazz and modern- the German Record Critics’ Award for Album of the Year. Iyer is music artists including John Coltrane, Mary Lou Williams, the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Herbie Mann, Art Blakey, The World Saxophone Quartet, Lou Harvard University, and the director of the Banff International Reed, Richard Muhal Abrams, Cecil Taylor, and more. Deeply Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. rooted in the tradition, these jazz veterans describe their sound as “futuristic music within the idiomatic continuum of jazz.” Like musical chemists, Trio 3 boldly carries the music forward, spinning three-dimensional jazz, reconfiguring conventions of composition, harmony, meter, and melody.

Sponsored by Wells Fargo.

This performance is made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.