Vijay Iyer: Mutations

Vijay Iyer

Mutations

ECM

This is Vijay Iyer’s first album as a leader on ECM and it puts his piano with a string quartet to explore the various mutations of the title, a series of pieces that gently soar, circling and moving from light jazz to very dense, almost crushing night music. Iyer has shown he is a prolific and diverse composer, as interested in cl…