Defiant Life album review by Doug Collette, published on March 21, 2025. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Kindred spirits pianist and composer Vijay Iyer and the iconic creative trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith have forged a telepathic ...

Veteran jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and the comparatively younger but also-veteran jazz pianist Vijay Iyer have announced their second duo album, Defiant Life, which follows 2016’s A Cosmic ...

Nine years ago, jazz greats Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith joined forces to release the collaborative album A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke. Both of them have done plenty of big things since the ...