Fieldwork Makes the Field Work

Bearing witness to a band reunion, and diagnosing a media landscape

Fieldwork at Solar Myth, June 9, 2023. (Nate Chinen)

There’s an elaborate history of musical entanglements between pianist Vijay Iyer, alto saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshawn Sorey. But nothing else they make, in any other formulation, produces the same volatile compound heard in Fieldwork. Over the weekend they reunited for a three-night run a…