Josh Evans (trumpeter)

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Josh Evans (center) with Orrin Evans (left) and Grant Stewart (right) at the Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este 2017

Josh Evans (* around 1985 in Hartford , Connecticut ) is an American jazz trumpeter .

Live and act

Evans grew up in Hartford; he came to the trumpet at the age of ten under the influence of the music of Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie . He had his first lessons with Raymond “Dr. Rackle “Williams, in whose Dr. Rackle's Sound Griot Brass Band he played. At the age of 14 Evans began studying with Jackie McLean . With McLean, he had the opportunity to perform in New York clubs such as Blue Note and Iridium , the Regattabar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Bushnell Center for Performing Arts in Hartford. Evans played from 2005 for three years in Winard Harper Sextet, with whom he toured and made his first recordings ( Make It Happen ). In the following years he worked a. a. With Christian Sands , Rashied Ali , Joris Treepe , Steve Davis , Bob Mover , Paul Brown (bassist) , Joris Teepe , Ralph Peterson , and the Captain Black Big Band by Orrin Evans 2011 he recorded his debut album Portrait , on which u. a. Ralph Peterson contributed and was self-published. In the 2010s he was a member of the Joe Chambers Moving Pictures Orchestra and the Valery Ponomarev Jazz Big Band, with whom he performed at Lincoln Center ; with the Rashied Ali Tribute Band he recorded the album Live at the Zinc Bar (Jazz Intensity). He also worked with Dezron Douglas , Ray McMorrin, Mike DiRubbo , Tyler Mitchell and Greg Murphy . At the end of 2014 his second album was released under his name Hope and Despair (Passin 'Thru), with Abraham Burton , David Bryant , Rashaan Carter and Eric McPherson . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 32 recording sessions between 2006 and 2018, most recently with Louis Hayes , Jazzmeia Horn , Shamie Royston and Corcoran Holt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contributors were u. a. Jack Walrath , Frank Lacy , Ralph Bowen , Wayne Escoffery , Tia Fuller , Jaleel Shaw and Tim Warfield .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 26, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Josh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford , Connecticut