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“Bursting with both emotion and intelligence…
a dispatch from the vibrant forefront of jazz.” (Utne Reader) Iyer's previous release, Historicity (ACT), a piano-
trio set of originals and surprising covers in his signature style, “became one of the decade’s landmark jazz
albums. Historicity was chosen as THE #1 JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR by the Downbeat International Critics
Poll, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Metro Times, National
Public Radio, PopMatters.com, and the Village Voice Jazz Critics Poll, and it reached #1 on the CMJ jazz
radio charts. The Vijay Iyer Trio went on to win the 2010 Echo Jazz Award (the “German Grammy”) for best
international ensemble and the 2010 Downbeat Critics Poll for rising star jazz group. “Presto! Here is the
great new jazz piano trio.” (New York Times) “Truly astonishing... they make challenging music sound
immediately enjoyable.” (National Public Radio) “A jewel... 9 out of 10” (PopMatters.com)

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