The New York Times, and the only “jazz release” in
Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 best records of 2017. Iyer’s Sextet was voted 2018 Jazz Group of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Iyer’s previous ECM releases include
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (2016), a collaboration with Iyer’s “hero, friend and teacher,” Wadada Leo Smith, which
The Los Angeles Times calls “haunting, meditative and transportive”;
Break Stuff (2015), with a coveted five-star rating in
DownBeat Magazine, featuring the Vijay Iyer Trio, hailed by
PopMatters as “the best band in jazz”;
Mutations (2014), featuring Iyer’s music for piano, string quartet and electronics, which “extends and deepens his range. showing a delicate, shimmering, translucent side of his playing” (
Ucross Launches Annual Music Fellowships With Rice University
The exciting new partnership offers fellows from The Shepherd School of Music the gift of time and space at Ucross’s 20,000-acre Wyoming ranch.by BWW News Desk
Ucross has announced the establishment of a new partnership with Rice University s Shepherd School of Music. An annual fellowship will award four weeks of Ucross residency time to accomplished artists and/or scholars in the field of music. This year, the inaugural fellowship will be given to two composers, who will each receive two-week residencies at Ucross: composer and doctoral student, Nicky Sohn, and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Rice University, Danielle Ward-Griffin.