Vijay Iyer Trio - Actions Speak [at Winter Jazzfest 2012]

’Actions Speak’ recorded Jan. 7, 2012 at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York, N.Y. Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer leads a trio that traffics in grooves, crackling and heavy. He has a distinctive way of exploiting dissonance and rhythmic space at the piano; he’s joined by a deeply resonant, gut-punching bassist (Stephan Crump) and a drummer with an advanced understanding of time (Marcus Gilmore). The results are beats that feel borrowed from a future age; alternately, they’re new lenses on jazz’s big-picture