Being and Becoming, featuring Peter Evans

Being & Becoming

Peter Evans (trumpet), Joel Ross (vibraphone), NIck Jozwiak (double bass) & Michael Ode (drums)

Being & Becoming was formed in 2017 by composer and trumpet player Peter Evans. The name of the band, drawn from the writing of Sufi writer and musician Inyat Khan, reflects the group's commitment to the challenge of spontaneous creativity. Evans' compositions for the band draw from a wide variety of sources, traditional and experimental, with a grounding in improvisational idioms, notated concert music and an array of experimental approaches.

Influences for the music range from the work of masters like McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane, 20th Century European modernism, compositional strategies pioneered by the AACM, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and many more. The result is something that feels new and old at once, an experimentalism grounded in both rigor and a passion for the undiscovered.

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