PETER EVANS ENSEMBLE feat Mazz Swift/violin, Ron Stabinsky/piano, Levy Lorenzo/percussion

May 2021

„Peter Evans Ensemble presented an intimate, hour-long program of riotous, experimental free-jazz at the Standard, a smallish venue. The audience, the most diverse in demographics seen at Big Ears 2018, was eager with anticipation, but for what, exactly, was unclear. Evans, a trumpeter and member of the ICE, and his Ensemble, made up of percussion, live electronics, violin, bass, piano/synthesizer, and brass made heavy use of improvisation during their exciting, through-composed piece. The set started with a flurry of percussion, the musician sounding every instrument in his arsenal (including a big gong), and the Peter Evans Ensemble were off. The piece spread in countless but controlled directions: sometimes each musician played their own musical lines simultaneously in a dense cacophony. Other times the texture reduced to a solo–a somber trumpet, a percussive bass. Peter Evans Ensemble explored every combination of instruments possible, weaving and oscillating among each other. Even in sonic discord, the expert musicians played with unwavering unity, a testament to the seeming, collective goal to push the boundaries of sound and genre." (from „I Care if You Listen“, https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2018/04/big-ears-festival-2018-pushing-boundaries/)