Spring Guide 2012: Vijay Iyer Brings Accelerando to Birdland - Page 1 - Music - New York - Village Voice

The phenomenon of popula-rity descended, without much warning, upon jazz pianist Vijay Iyer in 2009. After a decade of working in a series of well-respected bands and as a leader in his own right, the notoriously fickle Mainstream Gods decreed, in that year, to make the Indian-American musician an official Big Deal.