BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2645717:Event:128697 DTSTAMP:20260829T011931Z SUMMARY:Bill Evans Soulgrass DESCRIPTION:Saxophonist Bill Evans first joined Miles Davis group in 1 980 at the age of 22, and went on to record six records and tour the w orld with Davis numerous times over a four-year period. He then toured and recorded three CDs with John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orches tra, and later played with Herbie Hancock, Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, Steps Ahead and Mick Jagger, among others, garnering a few Grammy Awar ds® along the way. The sax man has been touring almost exclusively wi th his own band since 1990, playing well over 100 concerts worldwide p er year. He has recorded 19 solo CDs, including his latest, Dragonfly, and received two Grammy® nominations for his solo releases, one for Soul Insider(2002) and the other for Soulgrass (2006).\nThroughout his more than 20-year career as a solo artist, saxophonist Bill Evans has explored a variety of musical settings that go well beyond the confin es of traditional jazz, including rock, hip-hop, jam, fusion, reggae, Brazilian and slamming funk. Evans stepped into more adventurous terri tory with his 2006 Grammy®- nominated release Soulgrass, blending jaz z, funk and bluegrass into a seamless and wholly unique hybrid of quin tessentially American styles. He collaborated on the project with an e xciting and eclectic group of all-stars, including Vinnie Colaiuta, St uart Duncan, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Bruce Hornsby, John Scofield, Victor Wooten and Mark Egan.\nHis follow up to that widely acclaimed p roject found him pushing the envelope a little further in that directi on on 2008’s The Other Side of Something. “It’s an extension of Soulgrass. I am always trying to take the music somewhere it hasn’t been before. I am just beginning to explore all of the possibilities. I had been touring a lot, using the banjo and fiddle as my rhythm inst ruments, so by the time I started writing new music I was over-flowing with ideas. One of the first I had was to sing for the first time on one of my CDs. The saxophone and voice are very similar in range so it seemed like a very natural thing for me to do.” The Other Side of S omething features Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Richard Bona, Victor Wooten an d Dennis Chambers, as well as Chris Howes, Ryan Cavanaugh and Joel Ros enblatt.Van’s Joint, the 2010 live release, features eight of Bill E vans’ tunes arranged for and played by the WDR Big Band Cologne feat uring Evans, bassist Mark Egan and drummer Dave Weckl out front. Recor ded over two nights in Germany during Soulgrass’ 2008 tour, the perf ormances are spectacular and the unique collaboration one of which Eva ns is particularly proud.\nHe returned to the studio to produce and re cord the third Soulgrass album Dragonfly, his latest effort. Recorded between April and June of 2011, Dragonfly features Evans (saxes, vocal s); dynamic drummer and new lead singer Josh Dion; audience favorite R yan Cavanaugh on banjo; Mitch Stein on guitars; Clifford Carter on key boards; and Andy Hess on bass. \n\nFor more information visit https:/ /washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com/events/bill-evans-soulgrass DTSTART:20140303T003000Z DTEND:20140303T030000Z CATEGORIES:concert LOCATION:The Hamilton Live WEBSITE:http://www.thehamiltondc.com/live/calendar#/bill-evans-soulgra ss URL:http://www.thehamiltondc.com/live/calendar#/bill-evans-soulgrass CONTACT:202-787-1000 ORGANIZER;CN="The Hamilton":https://washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com/p rofile/TheHamilton ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2580054504?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="WASHINGT ON DC JAZZ NETWORK":https://washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com/profile/w ashingtondc ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="The Hami lton":https://washingtondcjazznetwork.ning.com/profile/TheHamilton END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR