Vijay Iyer w/ Craig Taborn & Kris Davis

“The most commanding pianist and composer to emerge in recent years,” (Village Voice) Iyer begins his season residency by inviting two of the jazz world’s most explorative and virtuosic pianists for this exclusive evening of duets, honoring the memory and legacy of the late piano master Geri Allen. Since her emergence on the New York scene in 2001, Kris Davis has been a singular artist whose music lives at the intersection of jazz improvisation and 20th century classical composition. The Vancouver-born Davis was dubbed one of the music’s top up-and-comers in a 2012 The New York Times article titled “New Pilots at the Keyboard,” saying, “over the past couple years in New York, one method for deciding where to hear jazz on a given night has been to track down the pianist Kris Davis.” Craig Taborn established himself as a modern master through five explorative releases and pivotal sideman roles with Chris Potter, Roscoe Mitchell, James Carter, and David Binney. An artist as comfortable in straight-ahead situations as the furthest fringes of the avant-garde, Taborn has always built ensembles that are equally versatile and eclectic. In a recent feature in The New York Times, critic Adam Shatz wrote, “His playing inspires something rare in music today, a sense of wonder.”