New & Recommended! Peter Evans: Extra (We Jazz) dropped late October. “Extra” doesn’t begin to describe Evans’s piccolo trumpet (& flugelhorn): he leaves it all on the bandstand. Maybe “Extra” means he’s stripped down to trumpet-bass-drums (plus electronic textures courtesy Petter Eldh & Jim Black).
In my dictionary, the entry for “virtuoso” is illustrated w/ a picture of Peter Evans playing rippling runs on the piccolo trumpet.
Evans is fond of repeating short motives: as if riffing but refusing to be assimilated into the flow. It’s the aural equivalent of a figure-ground illusion: Evans holds your attention even as you try to shift focus onto the band.
Peter Evans and Jim Black are part of a long tradition of trumpets and trap drummers entering the boxing ring: stick and move, jab and duck! Petter Eldh circles them like a referee. wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com
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Need to catch your breath? They follow up the track with an exploration of rhythmic sound effects, breath through the horn, the abstract clack of pistons. wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com
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I hold out hope for a reunion of the classic quartet lineup of Moppa Elliott’s MOPDtK (Mostly Other People Do the Killing). In the meantime, Peter Evans is killing, man. Photo credit: Inês Mineiro Abreu