Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
2016 - ECM Records GmbH: ECM 2486 / 476 9956 
http://www.ecmrecords.com/catalogue/1455090156

* Vijay Iyer: piano, fender rhodes, electronics
* Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
 
http://www.vijay-iyer.com/

Recorded by James A. Farber assisted by Akihiro Nishimura
at Avatar Studios, New York, on October 2015.


Reviews
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By John Fordham 
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/17/vijay-iyerwadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-review

In his eighth decade, the pioneering US trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith is
stepping even harder on the gas: he has released 10 very different albums since
he hit 70, including the completion of his civil rights epic, Ten Freedom
Summers, and has built a creative relationship with a much younger pioneer, the
pianist Vijay Iyer. A trumpet/piano duo is a tough call, but the two operate
with a charismatic delicacy and subtle force. The centrepiece is a largely
improvised seven-part suite dedicated to Indian visual artist Nasreen
Mohamedi. Smith’s tone and phrasing often reflect mid-period Miles Davis, but
he blends free jazz into those resources with a unique poetic focus. Long high
squeals and tumbling unfold over Iyer’s humming electronics, a bright brass
fanfare soars over a chordal rumble, and a lamenting muted-trumpet descent
invokes Sketches of Spain. Iyer mostly functions as a discreet foil, but this
intimate conversation swells from interesting to enthralling as it unfolds.

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By Thom Jurek 
http://www.allmusic.com/album/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-mw0002917109

By Lee Rice Epstein 
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2016/03/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-cosmic.html

By Chris Robinson 
http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD54/PoD54MoreMoments4.html

By Karl Ackermann 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke-vijay-iyer-and-wadada-leo-smith-ecm-records-review-by-karl-ackermann.php

Tor Hammerø (no) 
http://torhammero.blogg.no/1459351330_kosmisk_mte.html

Jan Granlie (no) 
http://salt-peanuts.eu/record/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith/

Ulrich Steinmetzger (de) 
http://www.jazzthing.de/review/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke/

Peter Füssl (de) 
http://www.kulturzeitschrift.at/kritiken/cd-tipp/vijay-iyer-2013-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke

João Santos (pt)

Di Leonardo Di Maio (it) 
http://ondarock.it/recensioni/2016_vijayiyerewadadaleosmith_acosmicrhythmwitheachstroke.htm

Di Sergio Spampinato (it) 
http://www.distorsioni.net/canali/dischi/a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke

Par Xavier Prévost (fr) 
http://www.lesdnj.com/2016/04/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke.html

Por I. Ortega (es) 
http://www.distritojazz.com/discos-jazz/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke

Por Jesús Gonzalo (es)

Por Sergio Piccirilli (es) 
http://elintruso.com/2016/02/21/vijay-iyer-wadada-leo-smith-a-cosmic-rhythm-with-each-stroke/