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Vijay Iyer And Craig Taborn at Big Ears Festival at Tennessee Theatre
Courtesy of Michael Ricci | Posted on March 12, 2019
Where
Tennessee Theatre
Big Ears Festival
604 S Gay St
Knoxville, TN
Map
865.684.1200
When
Sun, March 24, 2019
1:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn are among the most important pianists working in music today. A MacArthur fellow, Grammy nominee, Harvard professor, and winner of DownBeat’s artist-of-the-year honors multiple times, Iyer is a tireless composer, improviser, and bandleader. Described by The Los Angeles Times as “a boundless and deeply important young star,” he is a master of integrating varied interests and traditions, internalizing his enthusiasms in his music in the great mold of Steve Coleman. Taborn, meanwhile, has pushed more toward jazz’s outer experimental limits, playing with hardliners like Tim Berne and Evan Parker, David Torn and Ikue Mori. But his solo albums, particularly 2017’s brilliant Daylight Ghosts, demonstrate his sophisticated sense of harmony and poise, a supreme bandleader holding the center fast....