Evan Arntzen

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Evan Nigel Arntzen (* 1984 or 1985 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , clarinet , also vocals ).

Live and act

Evan Arntzen's father Tom works as a pianist, singer and band leader in Vancouver; his mother Georgina is a singer and member of the Hot Mammas Trio , his younger brother Arnt plays acoustic guitar, banjo and is a songwriter. At the age of seven, his grandfather Lloyd introduced him to traditional jazz. He had a band as a teenager and played in a high school concert band. After earning a Bachelor of Arts from Capilano University in Vancouver, he played for a year in the Jim Cullum Jazz Band in San Antonio and was a soloist at the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games in 2010 . He appeared with Michael Bublé in the TV specials Home for the Holidays in 2012 and 2013, also at the Dinah Washington tribute concert with Jaclyn Guillou on TV station CBC .

Artzen has received several awards, including the Vancouver Arts Award ( Emerging Artist in Music 2010), the Kobe Award at the Breda Jazz Festival (2010) and the Grand Prix de Jazz at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2009 (with the Amanda Tosoff Quartet). In 2014 he moved to New York City to play with Vince Giordano's Nighhawks , Terry Waldo's Gotham City Band and Jon-Erik Kellso's EarRegulars . Since then he has performed in prestigious New York venues such as Town Hall , Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Birdland , Smalls and the Apple Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center .

In 2015, Artzen worked with the Nighthawks on the soundtrack for the HBO film Bessie , a biopic about Bessie Smith . He is also a co-leader of the Animule Dance quartet ; he also worked with Catherine Russell . In the United States, Canada and Europe he also worked with Bria Skonberg , with whose quintet he performed at the Newport Jazz Festival 2015, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2016. He can also be heard on the 2017 Juno Award- winning album Bria . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 25 recording sessions between 2002 and 2019, including the album Arntzen: 3 Generations in Jazz (2006), with his grandfather, father and brother. In 2009 he released the album Looks Like It's Going to Snow under his own name on Songlines , which was followed in 2017 by Meets la Section rythmique with Dave Blenkhorn (guitar), Sébastien Girardot (bass) and Guillaume Nouaux (drums). Former Down Beat editor Dan Morgenstern wrote in the liner notes: "Evan has a distinctive style on both of the instruments chosen here, offering appealing sounds, flowing commands and the often elusive thing called swing." -Erik Kellso-led octet, he released the album Jazz Crush in 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Lee Shaw: Evan Arntzen Carries Family Tradition Forward. The Syncopated Times, April 1, 2018, accessed December 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 3 Generations of Jazz
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 19, 2019)
  4. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  5. ↑ Looks Like It's Going to Snow (AllAboutJazz)
personal data
SURNAME Arntzen, Evan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arntzen, Evan Nigel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1984 or 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver