| Uneasy | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 9, 2021 | |||
| Recorded | December 2019 | |||
| Studio | Oktaven Audio Studio Mount Vernon, New York | |||
| Genre | Free jazz [1] | |||
| Length | 71:46 | |||
| Label | ECM 2692 | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher, Vijay Iyer | |||
| Vijay Iyer chronology | ||||
| ||||
Uneasy is an album by American pianist and composer Vijay Iyer recorded in December 2019 and released on ECM in April 2021. The trio features rhythm section Linda May Han Oh and Tyshawn Sorey.
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 85/100 [2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The Guardian | [1] |
| Mojo | [4] |
| Pitchfork | 8.6/10 [5] |
| PopMatters | 8/10 [6] |
| Spectrum Culture | 88% [7] |
On Metacritic, it holds a score of 85 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim," based on six reviews. [2]
Uneasy ranked forty-second on Pitchfork's list The 50 Best Albums of 2021. [8]
All tracks are written by Vijay Iyer except as noted
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Children of Flint" | 6:26 | |
| 2. | "Combat Breathing" | 7:50 | |
| 3. | "Night and Day" | Cole Porter | 9:33 |
| 4. | "Touba" |
| 7:17 |
| 5. | "Drummer's Song" | Geri Allen | 6:47 |
| 6. | "Augury" | 3:29 | |
| 7. | "Configurations" | 9:27 | |
| 8. | "Uneasy" | 9:11 | |
| 9. | "Retrofit" | 6:40 | |
| 10. | "Entrustment" | 5:06 | |
| Total length: | 71:46 | ||
Pi Recordings is a jazz record label founded by Seth Rosner in 2001. He was soon joined as partner by Yulun Wang. Pi specializes in avant-garde jazz. Its first two albums were by Henry Threadgill.
Mike Ladd is an American hip hop musician from Boston, Massachusetts. He is based in Paris, France. The Guardian described him as "the king of the hip-hop concept."
Vijay Iyer is an American composer, pianist, bandleader, producer and writer 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, a Grammy nomination, 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 received a lifetime appointment as the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University, where he was jointly appointed in the Department of Music and the Department of African and African American Studies.
Uneasy may refer to:
Pete Robbins is an American jazz saxophonist and composer living in Brooklyn.
Tyshawn Sorey is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and professor of contemporary music.
Accelerando is a studio album by Indian-American pianist Vijay Iyer recorded in 2011 and released on the ACT label in 2012.
Historicity is an album by pianist Vijay Iyer released on the ACT label in 2009.
Paradoxical Frog is the eponymous debut album by a collective trio consisting of Kris Davis on piano, Ingrid Laubrock on tenor sax and Tyshawn Sorey on drums. It was recorded in 2009 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label.
Union is the second album by Paradoxical Frog, a collective trio consisting of pianist Kris Davis, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. It was recorded in 2011 and released on the Portuguese Clean Feed label.
Flaga: Book of Angels Volume 27 is an album by pianist Craig Taborn, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Tyshawn Sorey which was released in 2016 on John Zorn's Tzadik Records as part of the Zorn's Book of Angels Series.
A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke is an album by trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and pianist Vijay Iyer which was released in March 2016 on ECM Records.
Blood Sutra is an album by pianist Vijay Iyer recorded in 2003 and originally released on the Artists House label before being reissued on Pi Recordings in 2006.
Door is the third album by Fieldwork, a collective trio consisting of Vijay Iyer on piano, Steve Lehman on alto saxophone and Tyshawn Sorey on drums replacing former drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee, which was recorded in 2007 and released on Pi Recordings.
Far from Over is a studio album by the Vijay Iyer Sextet recorded in April 2017 and released on ECM August that same year. The sextet features brass section Graham Haynes, Steve Lehman and Mark Shim and rhythm section Stephan Crump and Tyshawn Sorey.
Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi is a studio album by American jazz musician Vijay Iyer. It was released on November 7, 2014 under ECM Records as a soundtrack for Prashant Bhargava's experimental documentary film Radhe Radhe. The album was commissioned by Emil Kang, Executive Director of the Carolina Performing Arts as part of a wider series of works to celebrate the centenary of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (1913).
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2021.
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2022.
The Adornment of Time is a live album by percussionist Tyshawn Sorey and pianist Marilyn Crispell. It was recorded at The Kitchen in New York City in October 2018, and was released in 2019 by Pi Recordings. The album features an hour-long piece that was freely improvised; nothing was determined or discussed beforehand.
Love in Exile is an album by Pakistani singer Arooj Aftab, Indian-American pianist Vijay Iyer, and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, released on March 24, 2023, by Verve Records. It is the trio's first album together, recorded in a studio in New York. It was received positively by critics. At the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best Alternative Jazz Album and "Shadow Forces" was nominated for Best Global Music Performance.
 | This 2020s album–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |