A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
Album • Mar 11 / 2016 • 9 songs, 1h 6m 18s • 89%
ECM Style Jazz
Noteable
8.5
/ 10
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith crafts a late-career highlight with pianist Vijay Iyer. Cosmic Rhythm is a frequently gorgeous, sometimes-roiling set that plays to both musicians' strengths.
In his liner notes to A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke, pianist/electronicist Vijay Iyer writes that while working in trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet/Quintet between 2005 and 2010, the pair often became "a unit within a unit."