Sue Evans

Susan " Sue " Evans (born 7 July 1951, New York City ) is an American Jazzschlagzeugerin and percussionist.

Life and work

Evans, whose father was a music teacher, had as a child first piano lessons before she was eleven zuwendete playing the drums. She studied with Warren Smith at the Third Street Drum School and then at the High School of Music and Art from 1969 to 1973, she worked in the band of Judy Collins, then in the quartet of Steve Kuhn. She is a regular member of the New York Pops Orchestra. It also works with other symphony orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

In addition, she worked with the Jazz Composer's Orchestra and recorded with James Brown, Roswell Rudd, Billy Cobham, Suzanne Vega, Blood, Sweat & Tears, George Benson and Tony Bennett. From the late 1960s it was Gil Evans ( with whom she is not related ) is used and played with it numerous albums as a drummer ( as Svengali 1973, The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix 1974 or There Comes a Time 1975) or a percussionist. Furthermore, she has worked with jazz musicians such as Art Farmer, Bobby Jones, Sadao Watanabe, Hubert Laws, Randy Brecker, David Sanborn or Terence Blanchard.

Awards

Evans in 1984 he received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Most Valuable Award for mallets and timpani. Same price for Latin percussion and congas she won in 1987 and 1989.

Source

• Ian Carr and others, Rough Guide Jazz Stuttgart: Metzler 1999
• Leslie Gourse: Madame Jazz - Contemporary Women Instrumentalists. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995, pp. 226-227
• Biography at Answers.com

• Percussionist
• Jazz drummer
• American musician
• Born in 1951
• Woman