Vijay Iyer

American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, and writer

Born: 26 October 1971
Rochester
Country: United States
Record labels: ECM Records, Savoy Records, ACT Music, Sunnyside Records, Pi Recordings
Discography: 25 albums

Biography

Vijay Iyer is a jazz musician who plays piano. Vijay Iyer was born on 26 October 1971 in Rochester. The music is usually filed under jazz and progressive jazz. Record labels: ECM Records, Savoy Records, ACT Music and Sunnyside Records. The discography here lists 25 albums, from “Memorophilia” (1995) to “In Darkness and Light” (2026). Honours include Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2003), Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2012) and MacArthur Fellows Program (2013).

Vijay Iyer ([ˌvɪdʒeɪ ˈaɪjər]; born Vijay Raghunathan, October 26, 1971) is an American 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". Iyer received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, three Grammy nominations, and the Alpert Award in the Arts. He was voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the Downbeat magazine international critics' polls in 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2018. In 2014, he was jointly appointed with tenure to Harvard University's departments of music and African American studies as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts.

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Discography

Studio and live albums

Memorophilia 1995 · Asian Improv Records Architextures 1998 · Asian Improv Records Panoptic Modes 2001 · Red Giant Records Blood Sutra 2003 · Artists House In What Language? 2003 · Pi Recordings Reimagining 2005 · Pi Recordings Raw Materials 2006 · Savoy Jazz Still Life With Commentator 2007 · Savoy Jazz Tragicomic 2008 · Sunnyside Solo 2010 · ACT Tirtha 2011 · ACT Accelerando 2012 · ACT Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project 2013 · Pi Recordings Mutations 2014 · ECM Records Radhe Radhe - Rites Of Holi (Music For The Film By Prashant Bhargava) [Live] 2014 · ECM Records

Wiring 2014

A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke 2016 · ECM Records Essentials: Historicity / Accelerando / Solo 2019 · ACT

The Transitory Poems 2019 · Live

InWhatStrumentals 2020 A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday 2021 · TUM Records Uneasy 2021 Compassion 2024 · ECM Records Defiant Life 2025 · ECM Records In Darkness and Light 2026 · DACAMERA Editions

Also plays on

Albums where Vijay Iyer is credited as a sideman

1997	Genesis & The Opening of the Way — Steve Coleman featuring the groups The Council of Balance and Five Elements	piano
2026	Fifteen — Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto	piano, producer