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Article: Album Review

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 ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter Evans: Electric Fruit

by Clifford Allen
March 18, 2011

Weasel Walter / Mary Halvorson / Peter EvansElectric FruitThirsty Ear2011 Percussionist and improviser Weasel Walter often uses the term “face rip" to describe a particularly intense musical experience. In improvised music, you often don't get a “blood and guts" approach; free jazz, in many instances, has been ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Duos: When The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts

by Mark Corroto
March 10, 2011

The defining characteristic of all great partnerships in cinema, from the male-bonding buddy movie to the classic Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy films, is the tension created between two self-assertive characters, before their eventual collaboration. The same can be said of jazz and improvisational duos. By matching two authoritative players, sparks fly and, if the two ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: The Coimbra Concert

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by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2011

The stand-up comic begins, “I went to a day of rage riot the other day, and a Moppa Elliott concert broke out." He might continue with, “Take my jazz canon, please." That is just what the bassist's quartet, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, does--seize the jazz standard and demolish it. The Coimbra Concert is the ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Thirsty Ear's Trio Treats at (Le) Poisson Rouge on March 7, 2011

February 26, 2011

On Monday March 7, 2011, Thirsty Ear takes the stage at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City for a night of inspired and provocative jazz. Avant-garde luminary Matthew Shipp will be performing alongside Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey. Representing the new giants of jazz will be the highly touted trio of Mary Halvorson, Weasel Walter ...

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Weasel Walter/ Mary Halvorson/ Peter Evans: Electric Fruit

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by Mark Corroto
January 15, 2011

The meeting of guitarist Mary Halvorson, trumpeter Peter Evans, and drummer Weasel Walter is something more than an informal chinwag and something less than a formal colloquy. These six improvised tracks act as a show-and- tell demonstration of the immense talents of tomorrow's--and, maybe today's--creative giants.In the past few years, Halvorson's trio disc, Dragon's ...

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Live in Lisbon

By Peter Evans

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Introduction; All; Interlude 1; Latticework; Palimpsest; Interlude 2; What; Interlude 3; For ICP.

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Brian Drye: Bizingas

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by Mark Corroto
November 27, 2010

Trombonist/composer Brian Drye is a modern musician for whom jazz is but one ingredient in his music. To him, the term is merely a pigeonhole, meant to typecast and eventually marginalize his work. He is not alone in this prescience, on Bizingas, Drye is accompanied by three visionary and quixotic players: cornetist Kirk Knuffke; guitarist Jonathan ...

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Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton / Peter Evans: Scenes In The House Of Music

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by Mark Corroto
November 12, 2010

Saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton have playing together in one form or another since 1972. Their longtime association has created improvised magic, and their appearances are legendary. In 2009, the trio shared the stage with trumpet phenom Peter Evans at Casa da Música, and this impressive recording is the result.

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Article: Live From New York

Louis, Christian Marclay, Ryoji Ikeda & Laurie Anderson

by Martin Longley
October 28, 2010

Music, films, strobing, gauzy screens and sofa-projections in New York City... Louis: with music by Wynton MarsalisThe Apollo TheaterAugust 30, 2010 It could be argued that certain problems are encountered when a live band plays musical accompaniment to a silent movie. In the old days, a ...