Jazz
Vijay Iyer Quartet
About This Event
Vijay Iyer, pianist, composer and bandleader, leads his quartet at Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. A 2013 MacArthur Fellow and Harvard professor of music and African American studies, Iyer has received a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, an Alpert Award and a Grammy nomination, and has been repeatedly honored in DownBeat critics' polls. His work links composition, multimedia collaboration and scholarship, informing his ensemble approach.
About the Artist
Vijay Iyer
Vijay Iyer is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor based in New York City. The New York Times has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway".