Iyer, Vijay
Summary: Holding it down: the veterans' dreams project is the result of three-year collaboration between Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, with veterans of color from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also the culmination of a trilogy of works spanning more than a decade of American life. For Holding It Down, Iyer and Ladd explore the experiences of veterans of these wars, in particular...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ IYESummary: Fast-rising musician Kassa Overall masterfully dissolves the barriers between hip-hop and jazz music. Taking cues from Karriem Riggins, Madlib, and Flying Lotus, the album matches jazz improvisation with beatmaker ingenuity, and features a cadre of New York's brightest up and comers, including Joel Ross and Morgan Guerin, as well as some of its big hitters, such as Brandee Younger and Theo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ OVEOverall, Kassa
Contents: No camera -- Anxious Anthony (feat. Anthony Ware) -- Ready to ball -- Clock ticking (feat. Danny Brown & Wiki) -- Still ain't find me (feat. Bendji Allonce, Tomoki Sanders, Mike King & Ian Fink) -- Make my way back home (feat. Nick Hakim & Theo Croker) -- The lava is calm (feat. Theo Croker) -- No it ain't (feat. Andrae Murchison) -- So happy (feat. Laura Mvula & Francis and the Lights) -- It's...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023