Vijay Iyer
American composer and pianistWikipedia
28
MENTIONS
13
EPISODES
10
PODCASTS
Search complete. 28 mentions across 13 episodes found for "Vijay Iyer".
Sep 18, 2026
Brian FraserGUEST
I remember, I think somewhere in the introduction I may have mentioned this, but...
Brian FraserGUEST
Iyer, the jazz pianist.
Brian FraserGUEST
And Harvard hired him.
Brian FraserGUEST
Yeah, Vijay Iyer.
Brian FraserGUEST
Vijay Iyer, thank you.
Brian FraserGUEST
Hired him to set up a jazz program at Harvard.
Brian FraserGUEST
And so he was talking to the potential faculty and to the students, trying to figure out how did they identify jazz as a discipline.
Lindsay BjorklundHOST
And then Tyshawn, he was only 26 at this point in time.
Lindsay BjorklundHOST
He'd already recorded albums with Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, Billy Bang, Anthony Braxton, and then Saron and Werner Kleschnitzer.
Alan BjorklundHOST
That's a lot.
Lindsay BjorklundHOST
Yeah, and he was touring with Steve Coleman's Five Elements too.
speaker_6UNKNOWN
music music
Ides HeavenHOST
How absolutely beautiful was that? That was Vijay Iyer, Henry Threadgill, and Daphne Patness.
Ides HeavenHOST
I've forgotten his name.
Ides HeavenHOST
I've completely butchered it.
Ides HeavenHOST
It's from an album called Fifteen.
Ides HeavenHOST
If you do not know, go and get it.
Ides HeavenHOST
Vijay Iyer is absolutely amazing, and these two other guys are absolutely brilliant as well.
Ides HeavenHOST
I haven't listened to the entire album, but the tracks I have listened to are absolutely gorgeous.
Brandon MillerGUEST
... continue, Pat.
Patrick MorenoGUEST
So, you know, um, Brandon and I In GG Cat together discovered we have a lot of the same musical interests, and you know, we kinda bonded on like really liking Vijay Iyer, um, The Bad Plus, Joshua Redman.
Patrick MorenoGUEST
You know, Brandon and I wanted to do something together, you know, musically fulfilling.
Patrick MorenoGUEST
Brandon brought up this, this band that Ben Tipton Ferd was putting together, and he let me listen to a couple demos, and I was like, "Wow, this is exactly the kind of stuff that I wanna be playing right now." So, uh, he brought me up to Ben and Cameron, came out to a show that I was playing, a duo show with a singer, Hannah Stokes, and, um, you know, from there they were like, "Okay, this guy can kinda play." [laughs] And so they invited, invited me over.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
I'm your host, Denise Finnegan-Hill.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
Next up is music of Vijay Iyer called Crown Thy Good, which he describes as, quote, a depleted, ambivalent, mournful echo of the original.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
And this is a recording of pianist Lara Downes.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
you you you you Thank you.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
piano plays softly
speaker_2UNKNOWN
so Thank you.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
Music of living composer Vijay Iyer called Crown Thy Good, performed by pianist Lara Downes.
Denise Finnegan-HillHOST
We'll round off the hour with music of Luigi Baccarini, an Italian composer who spent most of his life in Spain.
Ajanta SubramanianHOST
The Cast Pod can be accessed through our website, thecastpod.org, and through our partner, the New Books Network.
Ajanta SubramanianHOST
Sound editing and website design are managed by Siddharth Ravi, and the opening and closing theme music is from the song, Combat Breathing, written by Vijay Iyer and performed by Vijay Iyer, Linda Mae Han Oh, and Tishan Sori.
Ajanta SubramanianHOST
If you enjoyed today's episode, please be sure to share it on social media and send us your suggestions for future episodes at thecastpod at gmail.com.
Ajanta SubramanianHOST
This is Ajanta Subramanian signing off until next time.
speaker_1HOST
contrast that with West African music.
speaker_1HOST
The researcher Vijay Iyer explains that West African music uses steady underlying temporal units or pulsations.
speaker_2HOST
Right, pulsations instead of accents.
speaker_1HOST
Yeah, and the main beat and the metric grouping aren't constantly hammered over your head with a loud accent.
Larry SeidmanHOST
A track that has been described as holding a steady course between sway and swagger, like three old pros on a joyride.
Larry SeidmanHOST
It's from the 15th album of the trio of alto saxophonist Henry Threadgill, pianist Vijay Iyer, and drummer Daphnis Prieto.
Larry SeidmanHOST
The album is called Fifteen, and the tune, composed by Iyer, is called I Wanted a Map.
Larry SeidmanHOST
¦ ¦ From an album called Fifteen, that's Vijay Iyer, Henry Threadgill, and Daphne Prieto.
Larry SeidmanHOST
You've been listening to Discovering Jazz and one of a few episodes on albums released this past year.
Larry SeidmanHOST
I'm going to finish with a couple tracks.
Sina Basila HickeyHOST
There's also a film score and a... screening in the main area
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
uh yeah well no it's in our theater actually um but it's you know we're trying different like i said different presentations so we'll have a um a rescoring of a 1927 japanese silent film um and that's uh a heavy metal duo out of la called the silent light really exciting for us it's been a while since i don't know when impact has had metal in the in the house Um, and yeah, you know, of course we have concerts, um, you know, Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, you know, legends of the improvising creative music scenes, um, are performing in the concert hall on Friday.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
Miho Hattori, um, who I've become close friends with, of Chiba Mato from the 90s.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
We've commissioned her to do a new quirky, weird, bizarre, you know, kind of theatrical work.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
He's a trumpeter.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
He's now in his 80s, so he's one of the sort of vanguard of that generation.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
And he paired up with Vijay Iyer, who is a well-known pianist, collaborator, improviser, composer.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
They've done now three projects over the course of two decades, two, two and a half decades together.
Sina Basila HickeyHOST
There's also a film score and a... screening in the main area
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
uh yeah well no it's in our theater actually um but it's you know we're trying different like i said different presentations so we'll have a um a rescoring of a 1927 japanese silent film um and that's a heavy metal duo out of la called the silent light really exciting for us it's been a while since i don't know when mpac has had metal in the in the house And yeah, you know, of course we have concerts, you know, Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, you know, legends of the improvising creative music scenes are performing in the concert hall on Friday.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
Miho Hattori.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
who I've become close friends with, of Chiba Mato from the 90s.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
He's a trumpeter.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
He's now in his 80s, so he's one of the sort of vanguard of that generation.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
And he paired up with Vijay Iyer, who is a well-known pianist, collaborator, improviser, composer.
Amadeus ReguceraGUEST
They've done now three projects over the course of two decades, two, two and a half decades together.
3 more episodes mention Vijay Iyer.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.