The Transitory Poems

The Transitory Poems
Live album by Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn
Released	March 15, 2019
Recorded	March 12, 2018
Venue	Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest
Genre	Jazz
Length	73:57
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Craig Taborn chronology
Vijay Iyer chronology

The Transitory Poems is a live album by pianists Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn.[3][4] The album was recorded in March 2018 and released a year later by ECM Records.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[1]
Tom Hull	B+[2]

Background

The album was recorded in the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest on March 12, 2018.[5] This is Iyer and Taborn's first full-length duo album, but in 2002 they played in saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell's band, Note Factory, contributing to the album Song for My Sister.[1] The Transitory Poems consists of eight tracks offered as tributes to formative influences including pianists Cecil Taylor, Muhal Richard Abrams, and Geri Allen, and the painter and sculptor Jack Whitten.[6]

Reception

Dan Mcclenaghan of All About Jazz stated "The music's in the air, and then it's gone. The disc's title seems to nod to this sentiment. The music itself does, too. Instant composing, spontaneous arrangements, a gorgeous fluidity of ideas mutating in the moment with an enchanting and lovely spaciousness. And then it's gone, unless somebody records it... The Transitory Poems sounds like two artists colluding in a search for solutions to beautiful mysteries, completely in the moment. That there are no solutions is beside the point. It is the search, the journey that counts".[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn (except "When Kabuya Dances" [Geri Allen]).

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Life Line (Seven Tensions)"	13:02
2.	"Sensorium"	4:17
3.	"Kairòs"	8:56
4.	"S.H.A.R.D.S."	9:11
5.	"Shake Down"	6:40
6.	"Clear Monolith"	10:46
7.	"Luminous Brew"	8:17
8.	"Meshwork / Libation / When Kabuya Dances"	12:48
Total length:		01:13:57

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References

MCCLENAGHAN, DAN (March 7, 2019). "DAN MCCLENAGHAN March 7, 2019". All About Jazz. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
Hull, Tom. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Vijay Iyer". tomhull.com. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
"Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems". Roulette Intermedium. March 12, 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
"Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
Woodard, Josef (May 2019). "Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn: Building Something Majestic". DownBeat. Vol. 86 no. 5. p. 37.
"Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems". Rough Trade. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

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[AAJ-1] MCCLENAGHAN, DAN (March 7, 2019). "DAN MCCLENAGHAN March 7, 2019". All About Jazz. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

[2] Hull, Tom. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Vijay Iyer". tomhull.com. Retrieved 30 July 2020.

[3] "Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems". Roulette Intermedium. March 12, 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

[4] "Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 March 2019.

[5] Woodard, Josef (May 2019). "Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn: Building Something Majestic". DownBeat. Vol. 86 no. 5. p. 37.

[6] "Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn: The Transitory Poems". Rough Trade. Retrieved 7 March 2019.