In 1955, he moved to New York City, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. Many Evans transcription can be found in our Library.īorn in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1929, he was classically trained at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Mannes School of Music, where he majored in composition and received the Artist Diploma.
His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, “singing” melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today.
15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly played in trios.
