Absconded from The Article UNITY by Joshua P. Ferguson For Timeout Chicago

"If not for a death-defying brush with a semi, Peven Everett might not be headlining the new Friday Night Dance Party this week at Double Door. “I was in a cab coming from a rehearsal at Betty Carter’s house,” says the renowned multi-instrumentalist, who’d declined a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music to pursue a jazz career in NYC. “I get out because the cab driver was overcharging—his meter is flying abnormally fast—and an 18-wheeler comes by, takes the car door off and my trumpet case with it.”

After briefly blacking out, Everett awoke to find his trumpet miraculously in pristine condition. “Something deep in me said, ‘This is not what you want to do,’” the Chicago native says. “It made me come home, spread my head open and see what was there. I found it was something more all-encompassing.” Since then, Everett has launched his label, Studio Confession, releasing dozens of albums in house, soul and jazz."