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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Slippery Rock

Read "Slippery Rock" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Mettere in fila un paio di idee e fissarle su nastro, magari riuscendo a dire qualcosa di significativo, è alla portata di molti. Restare in carreggiata per dieci anni e cinque dischi - sei compreso il doppio Live in Coimbra -, viaggiando a mille all'ora e con il motore sempre al massimo dei giri, è cosa per pochi. Serve un talento sconfinato, prima di tutto. Ma ci vogliono anche lucidità e consapevolezza per alimentare la fiamma dell'ispirazione. A maggior ragione ...

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Peter Evans / Agusti Fernandez / Mats Gustafsson: Kopros Lithos

Read "Kopros Lithos" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Much like conceptual artist Piero Manzoni's Merda d'artista project, trumpeter Peter Evans, pianist Agustí Fernández, and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson present this all-acoustic improvisation session called Kopros Lithos, or “fossilized dung."In 1961, Manzoni set about to produce 90 cans of his own feces as a limited edition art piece. In 2007, one can sold at auction for 124,000 Euro.This project refers to dinosaur droppings, a much prized fossil. Indeed, the group's sound (which is occasionally musical) draws ...

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Peter Evans Quintet: Ghosts

Read "Ghosts" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The Peter Evans Quintet's Ghosts acts as a sort of back-to-the-future recording--that is, if the present were 2021. This inaugural release on the trumpeter's own label has a standard trumpet/piano/bass/drums setup, plus the incorporation of real-time, live electronic processing to make up the full quintet. Listening to any recording by Evans often prompts the dubious query, “What did I just hear?" since this über-talent is equally comfortable in the worlds of jazz, classical, and free improvisation. Like his ...

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Peter Evans: Live in Lisbon

Read "Live in Lisbon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


In gergo jazzistico vengono definite “contrafacts". Si tratta di composizioni ricavate da materiale preesistente, il più delle volte sovrapponendo una nuova linea melodica alla struttura armonica di un brano celebre. La pratica è antica come il jazz, anche se è legata a doppio filo alla rivoluzione bebop e al nome di Charlie Parker (al quale va attribuito il merito di averla elevata al rango di arte). Numerosi e celeberrimi gli esempi di “contrafacts" usciti dalla penna del sassofonista di Kansas ...

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Peter Evans Quartet: Live in Lisbon

Read "Live in Lisbon" reviewed by Troy Collins


Recorded at Portugal's Jazz em Agosto Festival in August of 2009, Live in Lisbon captures Peter Evans' longstanding quartet in concert, deconstructing a program of reconfigured standards--a regular feature of the New York-based trumpeter's oeuvre. Using classic American Songbook tunes as the basis for the quartet's freewheeling improvisations, Evans dismantles familiar melodies, harmonies and rhythms, rearranging them into kaleidoscopic panoramas that transpose wistful nostalgia into surreal futurism.

Evans' modular approach towards spontaneous composition evolves in a state of ...

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Peter Evans: Nature/Culture

Read "Nature/Culture" reviewed by John Sharpe


Far from unprecedented, solo trumpet records are still not part of humdrum experience. Since his revelatory debut More is More (psi, 2006), Peter Evans has pitted himself against a widening swathe of improvisers in both North America and Europe, while at the same time affectionately dismantling the jazz tradition with his own Quartet and Moppa Elliott's Mostly Other People Do The Killing. For his second take on the genre, Evans utilizes two different approaches on this double CD: the first ...

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Peter Evans: Nature/Culture

Read "Nature/Culture" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Centootto (108) minuti di improvvisazione solitaria alla tromba sono un impresa titanica per il musicista e forse, in misura maggiore, per l'ascoltatore. Soprattutto se la narrazione in senso tradizionale è bandita, se gli appigli melodici sono merce rarissima, se non vi è l'ombra di una cover, se... Insomma Peter Evans, trombettista dei formidabili Mostly Other People Do the Killing, qui alla seconda prova solitaria dopo l'acclamato More Is More (sempre per la Psi), ci conduce dalle parti di una improvvisazione ...


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