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Evan Parker / Matthew Wright, Trance Map+ with Peter Evans and Mark Nauseef: Etching the Ether
by Mark Corroto
Humans have seemingly always feared new technologies. We're not even talking about AI and ChatGPT. When the first electric light bulb was invented, folks worried it would end civilization as they knew it. Artificial light certainly changed how late one stayed up at night. On the other hand, it also allowed people to find their keys after the sun had set. Any new technology can be either a master or a servant, a tool or a tyrant. The programmable drum ...
Continue ReadingDave Liebman: Dave Liebman: Live at Smalls
by Mike Jurkovic
A brief, charged commencement by Dave Liebman and trumpeter Peter Evans (Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Mary Halvorson) launches Dave Liebman: Live at Smalls and from there the nocturne reaches out like a rhizome—laterally, vertically, horizontally—thriving into your consciousness, taking root, expanding . . . Free jazz is and will always be a fertile mind-field, an active landscape where veterans such as the quintet here at Smalls, post-plague, in a city pulled apart by fact and fiction, ...
Continue ReadingCory Smythe: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
by John Sharpe
The startling molten sounds which open pianist Cory Smythe's Smoke Gets In Your Eyes signal that this will be no ordinary journey. On the first four cuts he draws on a stellar 11-strong squad which matches leading cutting edge figures such as saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, trumpeter Peter Evans and cellist Tomeka Reid, with colleagues from the International Contemporary Ensemble, hailed as America's foremost new-music group by The New Yorker, such as violinist Josh Modney and sadly deceased saxophonist Ryan Muncy, ...
Continue ReadingPeter Evans / Barry Guy: Syllogistic Moments
by John Sharpe
From the first few seconds of the opening “Red Green" onwards, this live recording from trumpeter Peter Evans and bassist Barry Guy is a feat of death defying bravura. The two are among the most utterly distinctive practitioners on their instruments and they create a fast evolving kaleidoscope of preposterous sounds. Evans named his record label More Is More and that credo is amply reflected in the density of ideas which scroll past in swift succession. Both go way beyond ...
Continue ReadingEvans, Fernandez, Gustafsson: A Quietness of Water
by Vincenzo Roggero
Tre fuoriclasse dell'improvvisazione più o meno radicale (qui molto radicale) in un incontro senza rete che l'assenza di batteria e contrabbasso rende ancora più rischioso e audace. Potremmo sintetizzare così A Quietness of Water album che conferma, se mai ce ne fosse bisogno, l'attenzione posta dalla polacca Not Two Records verso le musiche non convenzionali. Come potremmo parlare della tromba di Peter Evans che si espande oltre i limiti, si trasforma, si moltiplica; o del sax di Mats ...
Continue ReadingPeter Evans Quintet: Genesis
by Karl Ackermann
The unbounded creative experimenter, Peter Evans, returns to his quintet formation for their third outing on Genesis. Pianist Carlos Homs, departed the group following their debut, Ghosts (2011), being replaced by Ron Stabinsky (Mostly Other People Do the Killing) on Destination: Void (2014), both on the More is More label. Evans was also a member of MOPDtK, overlapping with Stabinsky only on Blue (Hot Cup Records, 2015). Bassist Tom Blancarte, joins Sam Pluta on live electronics and the very busy ...
Continue ReadingAmok Amor al Club Sudwerk di Bolzano
by Giuseppe Segala
Club Sudwerk Bolzano 18.11.2015 La tromba funambolica di Peter Evans ha incrociato la batteria rutilante di Christian Lillinger nel trio Amok Amor, già attivo e apprezzato sulla scena berlinese, facendo nascere vere e proprie scintille. La scorsa estate il quartetto, completato dal contrabbassista Peter Eldh e dal sassofonista alto Wanja Slavin, ha registrato un CD dal titolo omonimo per l'etichetta Boomslang Records e nel mese di novembre ha effettuato un tour europeo, toccando tra l'altro ...
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