Jazz Articles about Peter Evans

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Album Review

"The times they are a-changin.'" Bob Dylan said that in 1964. He was right. In 2025, they are still changing, perhaps most notably with the emergence of artificial intelligence. That previously slow creep--outlined so accurately in Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, paired with Stanely Kubrick's movie of the same name--will build to a tipping point leading to an implosion. The takeover is inevitable. The only way to address it is through the arts. This is ...

Album Review

Elias Stemeseder / Christian Lillinger: Umbra II

by John Sharpe
February 23, 2025

Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder and German drummer Christian Lillinger capture the Zeitgeist in a nervy, occasionally anxiety inducing, pairing under the moniker Umbra. Although extant as a duet, they often supplement the numbers with like-minded collaborators, and on Umbra II trumpeter Peter Evans and bassist Russell Hall take to the full on interaction like ducks to water. Unlike their debut recording, this time out they swear off the electronics for an all acoustic outing, although, truth be told, such is ...

Album Review

Jon Irabagon: Server Farm

Read "Server Farm" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
February 19, 2025

Warning! Warning! Heads up! Spoiler alert! Server Farm has the potential to take your head to some random places. Some alarming (as all artists should be these days), Some cacophonous. Some claustrophobic. Others freeing, fleeting, fervent. Server Farm, saxophonist/composer Jon Irabagon's heatedly precise and prescient head-on clash with the threat of AI blisters the binary codes and algorithms of the connected world (which makes us all individual heads of the Hydra) both surgically and haphazardly, letting it all ...

Year in Review

Libero Farnè's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Libero Farnè
January 8, 2025

The list I have compiled does not follow any order of preference. The albums are organized alphabetically by artist. In my opinion, every album on this list is of great interest. I decided to include a few U.S. albums, though I had to leave out many other deserving ones, as well as three Italian albums that I believe deserve greater international recognition. Gato Barbieri Standards Lost and Found 1 Red Records

Year in Review

I dischi del 2024 secondo Libero Farnè

by Libero Farnè
December 26, 2024

La lista che ho stilato non segue alcun ordine di preferenza. I dischi sono quindi organizzati in ordine alfabetico, per artista. A mio parere ogni album in questa lista è di grande interesse. Ho deciso di selezionare alcuni album statunitensi, ma ne ho sacrificati molti altri molto meritevoli, e tre album italiani che ritengo meritevoli di maggiore notorietà internazionale. Gato Barbieri Standards Lost and Found 1 Red Records ...

Radio & Podcasts

Peter Evans, Stefano Risso, Godwin Louis, Or Bareket & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 7, 2024

Mondo Jazz is back on its path of discovery of the finest new jazz releases which are found off the beaten path... and there's plenty of them to enjoy in this playlist!Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Stefano Risso, Francesco Bearzatti, Mattia Barbieri “Lee's Dance" Behind Anatomy (Auand) 0:16 Host talks 4:58 Peter Evans feat. Petter Eldh, Jim Black “Underworld" Extra (We Jazz) 6:32 Host talks 13:01 Orrin ...

Live Review

Biennale Musica 2024 a Venezia

by Libero Farnè
October 9, 2024

Biennale Musica 2024: Absolute Music Venezia Varie sedi 26 settembre--11 ottobre 2024 La direzione artistica di Lucia Ronchetti, giunta all'ultimo anno del suo mandato, non finisce di stupire. “Absolute music" è la denominazione del 68° Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea, che, come si legge sul catalogo, intende affrontare ..."il significato della musica quale linguaggio autonomo e lo statuto ontologico del suono, mostrando lo stato dell'arte di questa disciplina alchemica e coinvolgente, entrando nel laboratorio dei ...