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Live Review

Fieldwork: Philadelphia, March 12, 2011

Read "Fieldwork: Philadelphia, March 12, 2011" reviewed by Dylan McGuire


Fieldwork Christ Church Neighborhood House TheatrePhiladelphia, PAMarch 12, 2011 To describe the music of avant-garde jazz trio Fieldwork--featuring polymath/pianist Vijay Iyer, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and saxophonist Steve Lehman--as complex may be an understatement as broad as the group's dedication to exploring the far reaches of harmony, ensemble dynamics, and the physical capabilities of their traditional acoustic instruments. Fieldwork's ability to take a single, stark musical passage and build it and twist and transform it until ...

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Album Review

Fieldwork: Door

Read "Door" reviewed by Lyn Horton


The selection of which avenue to follow in music is the whole ball game to sustain the integrity of a particular venture. On Fieldwork's Door, the measure of the music's success has to do with the recognition that it centers within a specific tonal range. The alto sax, played by Steve Lehman, establishes that range. There are no extremes reached here. Mixes of pointillistic textures abound; the flow of any melody is broken up by the rockiness beneath the sonic ...

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Album Review

Fieldwork: Door

Read "Door" reviewed by Troy Collins


In the three years since their sophomore recording, Simulated Progress (Pi Recordings, 2005), the collective trio Fieldwork has expanded its scope beyond sophisticated M-Base funk to delve into more expansive territory on Door. Comprised of pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshaw Sorey, Fieldwork operates as a true cooperative, offering a model of balanced collective improvisation and advanced compositional strategies that eschews ego for the sake of the group dynamic.

Iyer is one of the most ...

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Album Review

Fieldwork: Simulated Progress

Read "Simulated Progress" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell


The melodic hooks are not obvious. The harmonies are not lush or comforting. And the rhythms won't be easy to tap along with. But Fieldwork's Simulated Progress is not a free-form blast of notes from three soloists playing near each other. Instead it is a result of careful listening to bring disparate elements together, with room for improvisation within focused forms that are not instantly apparent. Elliptical lines from the saxophone, out-of-phase piano, and skittering grooves are woven in elaborate ...

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Album Review

Fieldwork: Simulated Progress

Read "Simulated Progress" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Has anyone out there ever been totally flattened by a record from the first notes? It happens that Pi Recordings was present at a Rudresh Mahanthappa show last week, and I was able to pick up a copy of Fieldworks' Simulated Progress, which I listened to on the way home. “Flattened" is definitely the word, and I felt chagrined that I could not get to the group's show (with a new drummer, Tyshawn Sorey) the next night. ...

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Album Review

Fieldwork: Simulated Progress

Read "Simulated Progress" reviewed by Paul Olson


It's hard to write about the collaborative trio Fieldwork. On their sophomore CD, Simulated Progress, pianist Vijay Iyer, altoist Steve Lehman, and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee play a dazzling, intrepid sort of new jazz that's as deeply interactive as anything you're likely to hear this year. This is Lehman's first CD with the band (he takes the place of tenor player Aaron Stewart) and Kavee's last (his chair having been filled since this recording by Tyshawn Sorey), so Simulated Progress ...

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Album Review

Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes

Read "Your Life Flashes" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The first four releases from Pi Recordings feature brilliant but underappreciated veteran jazz giants: Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet. But the label also looks to jazz's future with Your Life Flashes by Fieldwork, a collective trio of inspired and vibrant young jazz men.The group's leader (unofficial, perhaps, but he wrote ten of the twelve tunes) is pianist Vijay Iyer, who sounds like a man possessed here. He's from the percussive school of piano. ...

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Performance / Tour

Composer Portrait | Fieldwork

Composer Portrait | Fieldwork

Source: Ars Nova Workshop

On March 11-13, Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present Composer Portrait: Fieldwork. These three nights of live music will provide an intimate glimpse at the collective and individual work of three widely celebrated and critically acclaimed composer-performers: pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. “A jazz power trio for the new century” (NPR Fresh Air), Fieldwork exemplify the new generation of forward-thinking jazz artists who are pushing the boundaries of creative music in unparalleled directions. The ...

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Event

All-Star Jazz Trio Fieldwork Showcased in Concert Series Presented by Ars Nova Workshop in Philadelphia

All-Star Jazz Trio Fieldwork Showcased in Concert Series Presented by Ars Nova Workshop in Philadelphia

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

From March 11 to March 13, Ars Nova Workshop will showcase the work of widely celebrated and critically acclaimed trio Fieldwork. The three-night concert series, Composer Portrait: Fieldwork, offers a rare opportunity to experience both the collective and individual work of pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, making the series a truly unique event in the 2011 creative music calendar. “A jazz power trio for the new century" (NPR's Fresh Air), Fieldwork exemplify the new generation ...

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Education

Ars Nova Workshop Hosts Two Series with Fieldwork & ICP Orchestra

Ars Nova Workshop Hosts Two Series with Fieldwork & ICP Orchestra

Source: Chris M. Slawecki

Ars Nova Workshop Hosts Two Special Creative Music Series

Composer Portrait: Fieldwork, March 11 -13 featuring Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey and Steven Lehman; Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, April 1ש

Ars Nova Workshop, Philadelphia's leading nonprofit jazz and experimental music presenter, announces two special weekend concert series in Spring 2011. Featuring the work of Fieldwork and Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, the concerts take an in-depth look at the work of two important groups of composers and musicians representing both today's most ...

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Fieldwork CD Release Performance in NYC May 31

Fieldwork CD Release Performance in NYC May 31

Source: All About Jazz

The New York collective trio known as FIELDWORK (Vijay Iyer, piano & compositions; Steve Lehman, saxophone & compositions; Tyshawn Sorey, drums and compositions) will perform their original music this Saturday, May 31 at 7:30pm (one set only) at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Avenue @ Astor Place, NYC.

The concert celebrates the release of their new album, Door, out now on Pi Recordings.

Praise for Door:

“[T]he future of New York Jazz....Incredible music for the brave of heart and mind." - ...

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Recording

Fieldwork Releases Third Album, "Door" on Pi Recordings April 22nd

Fieldwork Releases Third Album, "Door" on Pi Recordings April 22nd

Source: JazzClinic Media

Pi Recordings Proudly Announces The April 22nd Release of Door, The Latest From Cutting-Edge Collective, Fieldwork

Featuring All New Compositions By Pianist Vijay Iyer, Saxophonist Steve Lehman and Drummer Tyshawn Sorey

Release To Coincide with New Vijay Iyer Quartet Release, Tragicomic (Sunnyside)

Praised by NPR's Fresh Air as “a jazz power trio for the new century," Fieldwork makes its most powerful and fiercely imagined statement to date with Door, their third album for Pi Recordings. An important marker in this ...

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Performance / Tour

Fieldwork at the Jazz Gallery Tonight

Fieldwork at the Jazz Gallery Tonight

Source: All About Jazz


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Music Industry

FIELDWORK (Iyer/Kavee/Stewart) live in NYC Thurs, 9/13

FIELDWORK (Iyer/Kavee/Stewart) live in NYC Thurs, 9/13

Source: All About Jazz

FIELDWORK is an exciting collaborative trio whose members have been working with Henry Threadgill, Andrew Hill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, and Steve Coleman. Working with concepts of rhythmic progression and novel structures for group improvisation, the trio creates breathtaking, cutting-edge music in the experimental jazz tradition.

F I E L D W O R K

Aaron Stewart, tenor saxophone Vijay Iyer, piano Elliot Humberto Kavee, drums

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 THE JAZZ GALLERY

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Door

Pi Recordings
2008

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Simulated Progress

Pi Recordings
2005

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Your Life Flashes

Pi Recordings
2002

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