jazz 5 /21 /21
V I J AY I Y E R S E X T E T friday, may 21, 2021 | 7:30 pm Lensic Performing Arts Center $105 / $85 / $65 / $55 / $35
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www.performancesantafe.org
Jazz pianist and composer Vijay Iyer (pronounced VID-jay EYE-yer) has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, and shape-shifting presence in modern music. Iyer has been voted Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year four times — 2018, 2016, 2015, and 2012 — and Jazz Times’ 2017 Artist of the Year. Additionally, Iyer was named a United States Artists Fellow in 2017, a MacArthur Fellow in 2013, and a Doris Duke Performing Artist in 2012. He also holds a lifetime appointment at Harvard University. Iyer’s sextet of virtuoso improvisers (Downbeat Magazine’s 2018 Jazz Group of the Year) brings a wealth of jazz history to music ranging from the thrillingly explosive to the cathartically elegiac, with entrancing hooks, rhythmic muscle, and an elemental spirit.