Vijay Iyer Essentials CD

This premium collector's box includes the original, pioneering albums at a discounted price:- Historicity- Accelerando- SoloHistoricity Grammy-nominated. No.1 best jazz album of 2009 in polls by New York Times, npr and ECHO Jazz“Presto!

Here is the great new jazz piano trio!” The New York Times“Immensely exciting... hugely enjoyable and thoroughly accessible... A galvanizing album” All About Jazz“Iyer's latest recording's mix of audacious covers and originals should mark his group as one of the top piano trios in the game” Los Angeles Times“Historicity” is Iyer’s first full album in the classic piano trio format and, at the same time, a profound redefinition of this genre.

The pianist’s examination of the concept of historicity is the album’s center of focus. It’s about “being placed in the stream of history, ” he explains in the...