Peter Evans
Peter Evans is an American trumpeter, improviser and composer, born in 1981, who moved to New York in 2003 after graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory. His work runs across free improvisation, jazz and contemporary composition. He has played solo trumpet since 2002, and his first album under his own name was the solo record More Is More (psi, 2006), which later gave its name to his own label. At Oberlin Evans met bassist Moppa Elliott, and he played trumpet in Elliott's group Mostly Other People Do the Killing.
Nature-Culture
A 2008 sequel to his highly-acclaimed first solo CD 'More is More' on psi 06.08. Peter Evans writes: Over the past couple of years one of my main creative outlets has been solo trumpet performance. These discs are meant to show various aspects of my …
More is more
Solos for piccolo trumpet and trumpet, recorded 11/9/05. Peter Evans is an astonishing new voice on that most demanding of instruments -- the trumpet. This set of solo improvisations locates Evans at the centre of the next generation of players.