Panoptic Modes

2001 studio album by Vijay Iyer

Panoptic Modes

Studio album by

Vijay Iyer

Released

2001

Recorded

June 9, 2000

Studio

The Studio/Current Sounds, NYC

Genre

Jazz

Length

65:58

Label

Red Giant RG 011

Producer

Cookie Marenco and Vijay Iyer

Vijay Iyer chronology

Architextures
(1998)

Panoptic Modes
(2001)

Your Life Flashes
(2002)

Panoptic Modes is the third studio album led by American pianist Vijay Iyer originally released on the Red Giant label in 2001 and re-released on Pi Recordings in 2010.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Tom Hull	B+^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

The Allmusic review by David R. Adler stated, "His harmonic and formal concepts are as challenging as ever, yet his exceedingly difficult writing is rendered oddly accessible by the unperturbed facility of his band".^[2] Writing for All About Jazz, Jim Santella said, "Vijay Iyer's music contains the adventurousness and dramatic tension that you'd expect from avant-garde jazz; as well as a light, rhythmic swing, for those of us who live in the mainstream. His third album is accessible to one and all. They're his originals, and they're interpreted by a stellar quartet".^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Vijay Iyer

"Invocation" - 6:07
"Configurations" - 6:41
"One Thousand and One" - 8:30
"History Is Alive" - 4:41
"Father Spirit" - 6:19
"Atlantean Tropes" - 6:54
"Numbers (For Mumia)" - 1:43
"Trident: 2001" - 7:16
"Circular Argument" - 4:47
"Invariants" - 8:19
"Mountains" - 4:41

Personnel

Vijay Iyer — piano
Rudresh Mahanthappa — alto saxophone
Stephan Crump — bass
Derrek Phillips — drums

References

^ Pi Recordings discography accessed October 9, 2014
^ ^a ^b Adler, David R. "Panoptic Modes". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
^ Hull, Tom. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Vijay Iyer". tomhull.com. Retrieved 30 July 2020.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 751. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Santella, Jim (2002-03-01). "Vijay Iyer: Panoptic Modes". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 2015-10-09.