Sue Evans
Susan "Sue" Evans (born July 7, 1951 in New York City ) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist.
Live and act
Evans, whose father was a music teacher, took piano lessons as a child before turning to drumming at the age of eleven . She studied with Warren Smith at the Third Street Drum School and then (until 1969) at the High School of Music and Art . From 1969 to 1973 she worked in Judy Collins ' band , then in Steve Kuhn's quartet . She is a regular member of the New York Pops Orchestra . She also works with other symphony orchestras such as B. the New York Philharmonic , the Brooklyn Philharmonic and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra .
She has also recorded with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra and with James Brown , Roswell Rudd , Billy Cobham , Suzanne Vega , Blood, Sweat & Tears , George Benson and Tony Bennett . From the late 1960s she was drawn to Gil Evans (to whom she is not related) and played with him numerous albums as a drummer (such as Svengali 1973, The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix 1974 or There Comes a Time 1975) or Percussionist a. She has also worked with jazz musicians such as Art Farmer , Bobby Jones , Sadao Watanabe , Hubert Laws , Randy Brecker , David Sanborn and Terence Blanchard . She can also be heard on recordings by Morgana King , Suzanne Vega and Philip Glass .
Awards
Evans received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Most Valuable Award for mallets and timpani in 1984 . She won the same prize for Latin percussion and congas in 1987 and 1989.
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
- Leslie Gourse : Madame Jazz - Contemporary Women Instrumentalists. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995, pp. 226-227.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Evans, Sue |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Evans, Susan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer and percussionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |