Vijay Iyer: Accelerando – review

(ACT)Pianist Iyer's trio is a very different one to Brad Mehldau's, but this successor to 2009's Historicity still invites some comparisons in its strong rhythmic drive, ensemble strength and sense of jazz history balanced by an openminded contemporaneity. As with Historicity, Iyer mixes originals with angles on known and lesser-known jazz composers (Ellington, Herbie Nichols, Henry Threadgill). He also re-examines a personal favourite (the Michael Jackson song Human Nature), and vividly recast...

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