Michael Evans (musician)
Michael Evans (* around 1965) is an American jazz and improvisation musician (drums, percussion, theremin , composition).
Evans studied drums with Milford Graves , Joe Morello , tabla with Misha Masud, Kanjira with Ganesh Kumar and Haitian / Afro-Cuban hand drums with John Amira. He also had lessons with Helen Hobbs Jordan, composition with Richard Cameron Wolf, Blue Gene Tyranny and theremin play with Pamelia Kurstin. In the mid-1980s Evans played in Boston with Steve Weisberg ( Lost in the Stars: Music of Kurt Weill ) , in the following decades in New York with John Zorn , Karen Mantler ( Farewell , 1995), Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut and Anders Nilsson , in London with Robert Wyatt . As a theremin player he worked with dance ensembles and groups of experimental, jazz, rock and chamber music , etc. a. In the mid-2000s at the Theremin Society's Issue Project Room series of events in New York . In the field of jazz he was involved in ten recording sessions between 1985 and 2010. In the New York experimental and jazz scene he is currently (2016) a. a. with Chris Cochrane , Ron Anderson , Brian Chase , Sylvie Courvoisier , Chuck Bettis , Uli Geissendoerfer and Mike Pride .
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- ↑ a b portrait at High Zero
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 11, 2016)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Evans, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1965 |