Vijay Iyer

★★★★ Uneasy

ECM. CD/LP

Among jazz’s most searching performers, Uneasy is an apt description of the self-taught pianist Vijay Iyer’s restless nature. Paired here with bassist Linda May Han Oh and long-time drummer Tyshawn Sorey, it’s packed tight with wayward ideas, be it sprinting through Cole Porter’s Night And Day or jollifying 2001’s rhythmic tempo experiment Configurations. Switching from delicate to muscular in a stroke, its tense, disturbed title track wins out.