Recordings
As a leader/co-leader . . .
Codebook (Pi Recordings, 2006)
A quartet
album featuring Vijay
Iyer on piano, François
Moutin on bass, and Dan Weiss on drums.
The compositions are derived from methods and concepts of cryptography and number theory.
Packaging includes encoded messages and a decoding device!
Listen to a feature about Codebook on American Public Media's Weekend America radio show.
Read more about the music at wired.com and Science Magazine.
Listen:
More tracks at Rudresh's myspace page.
Raw Materials (Savoy Jazz, 2006)
This duo album with pianist Vijay Iyer has been a major collaboration for the past 10 years. This self-titled CD is their first release.
Read a review from Time Out New York
Read a feature article from the Wall Street Journal
Sound files from the new CD (You must have Real Player):Forgotten System
Come Back
To listen to more of Raw Materials, visit the their page on myspace.com.
Mother Tongue (Pi Recordings, 2004)
This quartet album featuring Vijay Iyer on piano, François Moutin on bass, and Elliot Humberto Kavee on drums contains music from a suite entitled "Mother Tongue: Do You Speak Indian?" All of the compositions are based on melodic transcriptions of Indian-Americans responding to such a question in their native Indian language. You can learn more about how this music was conceived by clicking here.
Feature story about Rudresh in the February 2005 issue of Jazz Times
Here an interview with Rudresh talking about Mother Tongue on WNYC
Read a review at allaboutjazz.com
Read another review at allaboutjazz.com
Read an interview at betjazz.com
Read a review at allmusic.com
Listen:
Black Water (Red Giant Records, 2002)
“Black Water” is an expression that Indian immigrants have used to describe the transformation of one’s cultural identity upon moving to the West. In essence, it is a term that is broadly used to refer to the issues that arise in defining Indian-American diasporic identity. Rudresh conveys varying aspects of bi-cultural existence with the same quartet as above.
Read a review at allaboutjazz.com
Listen:
Are There Clouds in India?.mp3
Yatra (AEMMP, 1996)
Rudresh's first album features Ryan Shultz on bass trumpet, Jim Trompeter on piano, Larry Kohut on bass, and Jerry Steinhilber on drums.
Listen:
Hope.mp3 from the Pi Recordings website.
Currently out of print.
As a sideman . . .
Tragicomic (Sunnyside, 2008)
Vijay Iyer Quartet
Spider's Dance (Ultrabolic, 2007)
Hubert Dupont's Dupont T
Bazaar (Zoho, 2006)
Reimagining (Savoy, 2005)
Vijay Iyer Quartet
In What Language (Pi Recordings, 2003)
Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd
Blood Sutra (Artist House, 2003)
Vijay Iyer Quartet
Panoptic Modes (Red Giant Records, 2001)
Vijay Iyer Quartet
The New International Edition (Lyrae, 2002)
Pierre Lognay Sextet featuring Mark Turner
Architextures (Asian Improv, 1996)
Vijay Iyer Trio and Octet