Peven Everett
By user • Nov 1st, 2007 • Category: Band Bios
When Peven Everett first performed in public, Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” was near the top of the charts. Everett was four years old. When he turned down a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music, he could barely drive. When he first played alongside jazz greats Betty Carter and Winton Marsalis at Carnegie Hall, he couldn’t legally share in a celebratory champagne toast afterward. By age 32, the Chicago native had set up shop in both New York and L.A. But it was in returning home that kept the neo-soul/jazz/hip-hop multi-instrumentalist’s breakout release — 2002’s Studio Confessions — rooted in the city’s R&B history a la 1970s label Vee-Jay and the transplanted great Sam Cooke. With fellow city-mates the J. Davis Trio, Everett has positioned himself to take the jazz-fusion movement out of the dimly lit clubs and plaster it on blinding marquees.
Chicago Innerview Magazine, November 2007
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