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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: This Is Our Moosic
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingPeter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet
by John Sharpe
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 ...
Continue ReadingPeter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet
by Nic Jones
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 ...
Continue ReadingPeter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet
by Mark Corroto
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 ...
Continue ReadingPeter Evans Quartet: The Peter Evans Quartet
by Troy Collins
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 ...
Continue ReadingPeter Evans: Quartet & This Is Your Message
by Marc Medwin
Peter Evans Quartet The Peter Evans Quartet Firehouse 12 2007 The Right Moves This Is Your Message Tiger Asylum 2007
Trumpeter Peter Evans sports an astonishing technique -- no two ways about that. His musical language is closest to that of Bill Dixon, who pioneered similarly inclusive and expansive approaches to ...
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