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Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith

By Hobart Taylor | Allston Boylston
March 12, 2025
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New music from Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith, Kneebody, Claire Cope and Ensemble C, and remembering Roy Ayers.

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Roy Ayers

vibraphone
1940 - 2025

" data-original-title="" title="">Roy Ayers "Hey Lover" from Jazz Is Dead #1 (Jazz Is Dead) 0:00

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

" data-original-title="" title="">Roy Ayers Ubiquity "We Live In Brooklyn, Baby" from He's Coming (Verve) 2:24

Chien Chien Lu

vibraphone

" data-original-title="" title="">Chien Chien Lu " We Live In Brooklyn, Baby" from The Path (ECM) 6:08

Host Speaks 11:46

Claire Cope

piano
b.1989

" data-original-title="" title="">Claire Cope Ensemble C "Amboseli" from Every Journey (Adhy?ropa Records) 12:59

David Lindes " Te Vengo a Perdonar" from Peace with a Lion (True Tone) 25:38

Sarah Jerrom

vocals
b.1979

" data-original-title="" title="">Sarah Jerrom "Crystallization (For R.)" from Magpie (TPR) 30:32

Host Speaks 47:47

David Braid

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">David Braid "Always at the Back of your Mind" from Four Duos for when the World Momentarily Stops Turning (Self Produced) 49:42

Nnenna Freelon

vocals
b.1954

" data-original-title="" title="">Nnenna Freelon " Dark and Lovely" from Beneath the Skin (Origin) 53:40

Kneebody

band / ensemble / orchestra

" data-original-title="" title="">Kneebody " Long Walk" from Reach (GroundUP) 57:38

Isabelle Olivier

harp

" data-original-title="" title="">Isabelle Olivier "Impressions" from Impressions (Rewound Echoes) 1:00:22

Host Speaks 1:05:11

Muhal Richard Abrams

piano
1930 - 2017

" data-original-title="" title="">Muhal Richard Abrams

Fred Anderson

saxophone
1929 - 2010

" data-original-title="" title="">Fred Anderson" Focus, Thru Time . . . Time Part 1" from SoundDance: Duos with Fred Anderson and George Lewis (PI) 1:06:07

Catherine Sikora

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Catherine Sikora

Eric Mingus

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Eric Mingus " Tumbleweed Fences 1"" from Tumbleweed Fences (Self Produced) 1:14:17

Mark Dresser

bass, acoustic
b.1952

" data-original-title="" title="">Mark Dresser " Chordone" from Tines of Change (Pyroclastic) 1:19:03

Margherita Fava

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Margherita Fava "Tidal Waves " from Tatatu (Caligola) 1:22:28

Adam O'Farrill

trumpet
b.1994

" data-original-title="" title="">Adam O'Farrill "Scratching the Surface of a Dream " from For These Streets (Out Of Your Head) 1:28:04

Host Speaks 1:31:07

Rachel Eckroth

piano and vocals
b.1976

" data-original-title="" title="">Rachel Eckroth

John Hadfield

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">John Hadfield "Blood Moon" from Speaking In Tongues (Adhyarops Records) 1:32:45

Joe Henderson

saxophone
1937 - 2001

" data-original-title="" title="">Joe Henderson "Bwaata" from Multiple (Concord/Craft) 1:38:04

Jihye Lee

composer / conductor

" data-original-title="" title="">Jihye Lee

Ambrose Akinmusire

trumpet
b.1982

" data-original-title="" title="">Ambrose Akinmusire "You Are My Universe" from Infinite Connections (Motema) 1:49:00

Wadada Leo Smith

trumpet
b.1941

" data-original-title="" title="">Wadada Leo Smith

Vijay Iyer

piano
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Vijay Iyer "Kite (for Refaat Alareer)" from Defiant Life (ECM) 1:56:33

Host Speaks 2:04:50

Roy Ayers Ubiquity

" data-original-title="" title="">Roy Ayers Ubiquity "Ain't Got Time" from He's Coming (Verve) 2:07:28

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