Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
2016 - ECM Records GmbH: ECM 2486 / 476 9956
http://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1455090156
* Vijay Iyer : piano, fender rhodes, electronics
* Wadada Leo Smith : trumpet
http://www.vijay-iyer.com/
http://www.wadadaleosmith.com/
Recorded by James A. Farber assisted by Akihiro Nishimura
at Avatar Studios, New York, on October 2015.
Reviews
By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/17/vijay-iyerwadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-review
In his eighth decade, the pioneering US trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith is
stepping even harder on the gas: he has released 10 very different albums since
he hit 70, including the completion of his civil rights epic, Ten Freedom
Summers, and has built a creative relationship with a much younger pioneer, the
pianist Vijay Iyer. A trumpet/piano duo is a tough call, but the two operate
with a charismatic delicacy and subtle force. The centrepiece is a largely
improvised seven-part suite dedicated to Indian visual artist Nasreen
Mohamedi. Smith’s tone and phrasing often reflect mid-period Miles Davis, but
he blends free jazz into those resources with a unique poetic focus. Long high
squeals and tumbling unfold over Iyer’s humming electronics, a bright brass
fanfare soars over a chordal rumble, and a lamenting muted-trumpet descent
invokes Sketches of Spain. Iyer mostly functions as a discreet foil, but this
intimate conversation swells from interesting to enthralling as it unfolds.
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By Thom Jurek
http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-mw0002917109
By Lee Rice Epstein
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2016/03/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-cosmic.html
By Chris Robinson
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD54/PoD54MoreMoments4.html
By Karl Ackermann
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-vijay-iyer-and-wadada-leo-smith-ecm-records-review-by-karl-ackermann.php
By Mark Corroto
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-vijay-iyer-and-wadada-leo-smith-ecm-records-review-by-mark-corroto.php
By Grego Applegate Edwards
http://www.gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.com/2016/04/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-cosmic.html
Antonio Pošćić (ba)
http://www.potlista.com/recenzije/vijay-iyer-and-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke
Tor Hammerø (no)
http://torhammero.blogg.no/1459351330_kosmisk_mte.html
Jan Granlie (no)
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith/
Ulrich Steinmetzger (de)
http://www.jazzthing.de/review/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke/
Peter Füssl (de)
http://www.kulturzeitschrift.at/kritiken/cd-tipp/vijay-iyer-2013-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke
Por Cleber Facchi (br-pt)
http://miojoindie.com.br/disco-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith/
Por João Santos (pt)
http://www.cuicadodecafonica.blogspot.com/2016/04/vijay-iyerwadada-leo-smith-cosmic.html
Di Sergio Spampinato (it)
http://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke
Di Leonardo Di Maio (it)
http://ondarock.it/recensioni/2016_vijayiyerewadadaleosmith_acosmicrhythmwitheachstroke.htm
Par Xavier Prévost (fr)
http://www.lesdnj.com/2016/04/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke.html
Por I. Ortega (es)
http://www.distritojazz.com/discos-jazz/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke
Por Jesús Gonzalo (es)
http://www.noiself.blogspot.com/2016/03/wadada-leo-smith-vijay-iyer-cosmic.html
Por Sergio Piccirilli (es)
http://elintruso.com/2016/02/21/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke/
