ON THE FRINGE: Vijay Iyer Live in Concert

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ON THE FRINGE: Vijay Iyer Live in Concert

POSTED: Monday, September 13, 2010, 7:30 PM

Every night, we're hitting the Live Arts/Fringe fest like a pack of culture-hungry wolves. Every morning, we're howling about it at citypaper.net/fringe.

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WE SAW IT LAST NIGHT >> Vijay Iyer Live

Every inch the charming young jazz phenom, Vijay Iyer projects an endearingly polite hipness in his fashion sense, his performance manner and his approach to both covers â deferential but charismatic readings of Monk and Ellington; more mischievous and meandering takes on Michael Jackson and John Lennon â and his original compositions, which render abstract concepts (like "Autoscopy's" apt metaphor of corporeal prisons and spiritual escape) in ways that are surprisingly lucid without being hamfistedly obvious. He's also a crackerjack technician as a pianist, capable of ferociously well-controlled trills and dazzling mad scrambles across the keyboard. And Eastern State makes a tremendously cool concert venue, logic be damned. —K. Ross Hoffman

SEE ALSO >> 8: Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi >> InsectInside >> Iron >> Bang on a Can Marathon >> A Tale of Two Brains >> King of Ghosts >> The Marriage of Figaro: The Las Vegas Version >> The Merry Devil of Edmonton >> Utopia in Four Movements So far we have reviewed 56 Live Arts/Fringe shows! Think our critics are so right? Or so totally wrong? Visit citypaper.net/fringe to leave a comment. But don't forget that we are wolves.

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