Bill Evans
- Saxophones, flute, keyboards, composer
- Born 1958, Clarendon Hills, Illinois
- Studied music at North Texas State University and William
Patterson College, NJ
- Lives in New York
- Hobbies: wilderness trecking, surfing and anything dangerous
or exciting..
Live with his group PUSH at the "Rheinart" rock and pop festival in
summer of 1995 in Germany. The audience started with almost 30.000
and grew during the show. At the end the audience was screaming for
encores for over 10 minutes (which was not possible due to the
festival schedule).
Bill Evans, who is not related to the pianist with the same name,
started playing piano at age 6 and added the clarinet at age 11. He
played locally in New York during the late 70s - with Joanne
Brackeen, Thad Jones, Art Blakey and the group "Elements"(led by Pat
Metheny's early rhythm section Danny Gottlieb and Mark Egan). His
first big break came when he joined the comeback-group of Miles Davis
from 1980 to 1984. Since then he has recorded a few solo albums and
also played live and on records with
- Herbie Hancock
- Gil Evans
- Jim Beard
- Ron Carter
- John McLaughlin & Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
- Richard S. & the Vibe Tribe ( on the albums COOL SHOES and
Foreign Affairs )
His compositional style included the basic elements of todays acid
jazz even in the early 1980s, when he combined real drums with drum
machines and bebop-lines with funk and hip-hop rhythms. Since then he
has expanded his style to include rap-vocals on the album "Push". His
steady touring band included rapper K.C.Flight as well as Ron Jenkins
(bass), Scooter Warner (drums) and percussionist Manolo Badrena (who
also raps live on stage). The basic band has hardly changed, but he
is working with different rappers now.
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