SFJAZZ presents Vijay Iyer with Linda May Han Oh, & Tyshawn Sorey
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
3:00 PM, Sunday, April 9, 2023

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[3:06 PM] {lights down, pause, performers out; intro speech from VI}

1. [3:09 PM] (unidentified tune #1, guess: Entrustment)
2. [3:13 PM] Overjoyed »
3. [3:22 PM] (unidentified tune #2, guess: Augury » Drummer’s Song) »
4. [3:33 PM] (unidentified tune #3, guess: Uneasy) »
5. [3:36 PM] (unidentified tune #4, guess: Retrofit) »
6. [3:59 PM] (unidentified tune #5, guess: Combat Breathing) »
   [4:12 PM] {pause; VI banter: we're not done, this is just the 7th inning stretch}
7. [4:15 PM] Children of Flint
8. [4:31 PM] (unidentified tune #6, guess: Configurations) »
9. [4:41 PM] (unidentified tune #7, guess: Entrustment reprise)
   [4:43 PM] {applause at end set, bows, off and then back}
   
   Encore
10. [4:46 PM] Night and Day
    [4:56 PM] {applause at end of show}
    [4:57 PM] {lights up!}

• Vijay Iyer: piano;
• Linda May Han Oh: contrabass;
• Tyshawn Sorey: drums.

Vijay mentioned that one of tunes before the “7th inning stretch” was by Geri Allen – probably Drummer’s Song from the trio's 2021 release on ECM, Uneasy.

My assignment of titles against most of the tunes is very speculative – it's really hard to pin titles down on wordless tunes that you're not all that familiar with by matching them to random notes you've scribbled in the dark (ex, “fast repetitive pounding”, “calm and meditative”, et cetera)!

I thought this show was very good. Maybe a bit too loud overall, but there were enough quiet moments that my ear's could rest a bit from the more emphatic or frenetic bits.

Vijay posted an short article relating a childhood anecdote in the SFJAZZ blog.

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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