★★★★★
Track Listing: Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea; Mutation I: Air; Mutation II: Rise; Mutation III: Canon; Mutation IV: Chain; Mutation V: Automata; Mutation VI: Waves; Mutation VII: Kernel; Mutation VIII: Clade; Mutation IX: Descent; Mutation X: Time; When We're Gone. Personnel: Vijay Iyer: piano, elettronica; Miranda Cuckson: violino; Michi Wiancko: violino; Kyle Armbrust: viola; Kivie Cahn-Lipman: violoncello. Record Label: ECM Records Style: Modern Jazz
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-03-17
★★★★★
This album arrives with high expectations. Vijay Iyer is among the most decorated jazz musicians of his generation. He wins jazz polls, professorships, prizes and MacArthur Fellowships. Mutations is his debut on ECM, a label known for bringing forth new levels of creativity from its artists. But Mutations is a major disappointment. The problem is Iyer's writing for strings. There is a 10-part suite for string quartet, piano and electronics...
- jazztimes.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
Track Listing: Spellbound and Sacrosanct, Cowrie Shells and the Shimmering Sea; Mutation I: Air;
Mutation II: Rise; Mutation III: Canon; Mutation IV: Chain; Mutation V: Automata;
Mutation VI: Waves; Mutation VII: Kernel; Mutation VIII: Clade; Mutation IX: Descent;
Mutation X: Time; When We're Gone. Personnel: Vijay Iyer: piano, electronics (2-13); Miranda Cuckson: violin (2-12); Michi Wiancko:
violin (2-12); Kyle Armbrust: viola (2-12); Kivie Cahn-Lipman: violoncello (2-12)...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-03-10
★★★★★
Mutations is Grammy-nominated pianist Vijay Iyer's first album as a leader for ECM, and it's fittingly special. It's a setting for his piano and a string quartet driven by both his mathematical fascination with patterns, the freespiritedness that lets piano-improv pull the strings where it will, and his experience of chamber-ensembles as a former violinist...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-03-07
★★★★★
Over the last decade, when he wasn't busy becoming one of the world's most talked-about jazz pianists, Vijay Iyer was also writing chamber music. Little of it has been widely heard, though that will change, now that Iyer has a home at ECM, a label that specializes in both fields. The big item on the Iyer's imprint debut -- framed by some piano miniatures -- is the composer's 10-movement string quartet-plus-piano suite, Mutations. The piece covers a lot of ground...
- wonderingsound.com
2014-03-13
★★★★★
As a poll-winning pianist/composer with a PhD in the cognitive science of music, director of the Banff Centre's International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music and Harvard professor, Vijay Iyer has a lot going on between his ears and on the tips of his fingers. With , his first album for the iconic ECM imprint, he veers away from the expected virtuosic jazz for which he is internationally known and respected...
- exclaim.ca
2014-03-01
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDVijay IyerTirtha - Vijay IyerAct Music2011 With last August's fine album, Solo, Vijay Iyer took a look at the jazz tradition in some radical but recognisable appraisals of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Tirtha (the word means "crossing") visits his roots as an Indian-American, examined in a trio collaboration with electric guitarist and composer Prasanna and tabla-player Nitin Mitta...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-04-11
★★★★★
Incorporating elements from Indian music into jazz hasnâ??t been a particularly new idea for decades, but leave it to celebrated Indian-American pianist Vijay Iyer to take the long-running tradition a step further. No stranger to incorporating elements of the Indian music into his compositions through much of his career, Iyer enlisted South Indian-born musicians Prasanna on guitar and tabla player Nitin Mitta for his first attempt at a full-length hybrid...
- latimesblogs.latimes.com
2011-03-14
★★★★★
Jazz still has rites of passage. Tenor saxophonists, eventually, have to record "Body and Soul". Hawkins did it, and eventually they have to do it. Their own way, sure, but do it they practically must. For jazz pianists, the historical hurdle is a program of solo piano. The point is not to be Art Tatum but, rather, to demonstrate that your conception of jazz piano can withstand the nakedness, the scrutiny that solo playing implies...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
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