Singin the blues - Doc Evans - Art Hodes 1968

Hodes Art / Doc Evans 1968. In 1968 in Chicago pianist Art Hodes was the host in a series of jazz films from some small jazz club. He would be able to feature one or more jazz musicians in a program called Jazz Alley. In this clip Art Hodes presents trumpeter Doc Evans (1907 to 1977). Doc graduated from Carleton College with a BA in English in 1929. While at Carleton, Doc played with Carleton Collegians, a campus group that played for school dances and various local events. His ability to play piano, sax and drums made him a particularly valuable member of the ensemble. He found a second-hand cornet and began bringing it along to dance jobs, where he would alternate between tenor sax and cornet. "Finally I decided that the cornet was my instrument, and I had to decide what to do about my sax so I gave it up".

Channel: YouTube Video Length: 3m 14s Date Found: Sat, Mar 05 2011 2:20 PM Category: Music Date Produced: Sat, Mar 05 2011 2:05 PM View Count: 0