Jazz Articles about Peter Evans

Peter Evans Quintet: Ghosts

by Mark Corroto
April 2, 2011

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 ...

Peter Evans: Live in Lisbon

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 28, 2010

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 ...

Peter Evans Quartet: Live in Lisbon

by Troy Collins
July 2, 2010

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 ...

Peter Evans: Nature/Culture

by John Sharpe
October 6, 2009

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 ...

Peter Evans: Nature/Culture

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 7, 2009

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 ...

Peter Evans: Nature/Culture

by John Eyles
June 25, 2009

Peter Evans' previous solo album, More is More (Psi, 2006), began an unbroken sequence of releases that demonstrates why the trumpeter is increasingly regarded with a mixture of awe and wonder. That solo album was followed by his debut as a leader, The Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12, 2007) and Check for Monsters (Emanem, 2009), featuring a fine chamber improv trio with cellist Okkyung Lee and multi-instrumentalist Steve Beresford. These albums have been backed up by a variety of gigs ...

Peter Evans: Oculus Ex Abyssus; Evans/Fei/Smith/Walter; Sparks

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
March 7, 2009

Peter Evans-Weasel Walter Group Oculus Ex Abyssus Ug Explode Records 2008 Peter Evans / James Fei / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter Evans/Fei/Smith/Walter Ug Explode Records 2008 Peter Evans / Tom Blancarte Sparks Creative Source Recordings 2008

Over the last several years, trumpeter Peter Evans has emerged as ...