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Pianist Orrin Evans And Trumpeter Sean Jones Live Streaming Concert at An Die Musik Live

Courtesy of Erin Connelly | Posted on June 19, 2020

Where

An Die Musik Live
409 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
Map
410-385-2638

When

Sat, June 27, 2020
7:00 pm

Musicians

About

Grammy Nominated pianist and composer Orrin Evans and trumpeter Sean Jones have performed together for two decades — but they have never performed as a duet. Join us for a truly special, never-before-seen event!

Born in Trenton, NJ but raised in Philadelphia, acoustic pianist Orrin Evans was among the "Young Lions" of straight-ahead jazz who emerged in the 1990s. His main focus is hard bop, although he has occasionally detoured into soul-jazz and R&B when backing such vocalists as Denise King and his wife, Dawn Warren. Influenced by McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, among others, Evans graduated from high school in the early 1990s and studied at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ before going on to study privately with Kenny Barron and be employed as a sideman by Bobby Watson, Ralph Peterson, Duane Eubanks, singer Lenora Zenzalai-Helm and others....

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