Nick Evans (musician)

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Nicholas "Nick" Evans (born January 9, 1947 in Newport , Wales ) is a British creative jazz trombonist who became known to a wider audience primarily through his excursions into progressive rock .

Live and act

Evans began playing the trombone when he was eleven. In 1966 he became a member of the New Welsh Jazz Orchestra . In 1968 Graham Collier brought him into his band ( Down Another Road , 1969); he attended the Barry Jazz Summer School where he met Mark Charig , Elton Dean and Keith Tippett .

With Charig and Dean he became a member of Tippett's Sextet (until 1970) in the same year. In 1969 he played some concerts and rehearsals with Soft Machine in late autumn and also took part in the recordings of their album Third and Fourth . Then he became a member of Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath (1970 to 1974) and was also involved in Tippett's major project Centipede (1970-71). He was also a member of the groups Just Us (1972-73) and Ambush (1972). Together with Radu Malfatti he founded the short-lived band Nicra , which included Tippett and Buschi Niebergall and Makaya Ntshoko (album of the same name in 1975). From 1975 he belonged to Elton Deans Ninesense (until 1980) and also played with Tippett's large formation Ark (1976, 1978), Dudu Pukwanas Diamond Express (1977), and Louis Moholos Spirits Rejoice (1978-79).

Since the 1980s he made his living as a math teacher. He also founded the group Dreamtime , with which he recorded several albums; this band has also toured with Keith Tippett in recent years. He has also recorded with King Crimson ( Lizard , 1970), Robert Wyatt ( The End of an Ear ) and Hugh Hopper ( 1984 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Graham Bennett Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous , p. 178
  2. ^ Graham Bennett Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous , pp. 192, 246
  3. ^ Graham Bennett Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous , p. 396
  4. ^ John Chilton Who's Who of British Jazz , p. 362
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evans, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz and rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport (Gwent)