Eubanks-Evans Experience
Saturday, April 2, 2022
7:30 PM
The series continues on Saturday, April 2, with the Eubanks-Evans Experience, featuring celebrated guitarist Kevin Eubanks and Grammy-nominated pianist Orrin Evans. Since 2010, when Eubanks’ 18-year tenure as guitarist and music director of TV’s The Tonight Show Band ended, the Philadelphia-born guitarist and composer has been on a creative roll. Considered among the top jazz guitarists of his generation, after graduating from Berklee College of Music, Eubanks kicked off his musical career with some of the jazz greats, including Art Blakey, Slide Hampton, McCoy Tyner, Sam Rivers, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland, and Ron Carter. The New York Times called him “a guitarist with an extravagant expressive palette and a technique that merges post-bop fluency with flamenco and classical fingerstyles as well as the lilt of West African blues.” He joins in this special project with fellow Philadelphian Evans, who has been featured in recent Athenaeum concerts with his own trio and The Bad Plus. The New York Times wrote, “Evans is a viable candidate for jazz’s most resourceful and invigorating contemporary pianist.”
