Jazz Articles about Peter Evans

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 ...

Mostly Other People Do the Killing: This Is Our Moosic

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 15, 2009

Chi sentenzia che da parecchio tempo a questa parte il jazz americano produce poco o nulla di interessante e che il futuro della musica afroamericana si trova nel Vecchio Continente, basta vedere cosa succede a casa nostra, nelle terre scandinave o nei paesi balcanici, dovrebbe ascoltare, tra gli altri, dischi come questo. Nulla di rivoluzionario, si capisce, nessuna millantata originalità o ennesima fantomatica “nuova via," semplicemente, si fa per dire, un album di grande musica, creata da quattro ragazzacci americani ...

Peter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet

by John Sharpe
November 18, 2007

The exclamation mark which adorns the cover of Peter Evans Quartet's debut and, quintupled, gives the title for the opening piece, has never been more appropriate. Watch out. This is a record not to be messed with. The band explodes out of the starting gate and rarely let up over the course of the fifty-five minute set.

This disc confirms the Firehouse 12 label's fast-developing reputation for left field offerings recorded in luminous sound which handsomely repay in-depth listening.

While ...

Peter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet

by Nic Jones
November 17, 2007

It can be argued that a kind of pluralist sensibility lies at the heart of this music. Trumpeter Peter Evans is the embodiment of it in the way he combines the music here with the willingness to play the piccolo trumpet in a Baroque setting elsewhere. He is, thus, evidently a man of parts; and even though the music here is to some degree steeped in precedents, the fact that the quartet fashions something not only new but also immediate ...

Peter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet

by Mark Corroto
November 17, 2007

Between the fifteen-second song “How Long and the nearly nine-minute “Tag, you're left wondering if your CD player is in need of a cleaning. You ponder if the laser isn't unlike a diamond stylus of an LP player. Those of us who grew up with vinyl remember dropping the arm in the middle of a track, or having the needle bounce into a musical conversation started minutes before.

The same feeling emerges listening to the Peter Evans Quartet's ...

Peter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet

by Troy Collins
November 13, 2007

Occasionally, a debut album from a new artist arrives that so perfectly encapsulates the prevailing zeitgeist, it sounds like the visionary work of a seasoned veteran. The Peter Evans Quartet is such an album.

While Peter Evans' solo trumpet album, More is More (Psi, 2006) is technically the Oberlin University grad's debut recording, this quartet session is far more indicative of his wide-ranging artistry.

Evans is joined by a close-knit group of regular collaborators. Drummer Kevin ...