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Charles Evans

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About Me

charlesevansmusic.com TUXEDO TO SPEEDO! (Special thanks to Nathan Kuruna for the great footage!")
"You goddamn sissy...When you hear strong, masculine music like this, get up and use your ears like a man!" - Charles Ives
"really enjoyed your record man-great trumpet player and r section - you are BURNING!!" - David Liebman .
"... a stunning virtuoso with irony to spare."- Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes.org
"New Yorker Charles Evans - a student of Dave Liebman - is a vehement baritone player; Peter Evans (no relation) is a fiery and daring trumpeter...the saxophonist and trumpeter reserve the right to startle with unorthodox virtuosity." - Julian Cowley, WIRE March '07
“Finding horn players who specialize on baritone sax is rare indeed! That’s why I was so delighted to hear Charles Evans. He’s really got that baritone under control – great stuff! Give this young man’s music a listen- you’ll be hearing more of him on the big horn!” – John Surman (baritone saxophone great)
"....everything is secondary to the power of the music encased within the CD. To adequately describe it would be to invent some new adjectives. This young man is on to something and he means to get to the bottom of it. " - Larry Hollis, Cadence Magazine, April '06

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/16/2005
Band Website: charlesevansmusic.com
Band Members: Charles Evans and the Language Of's 1st release, "It Needs It" (Hot Cup 2005)
Language Of: Charles Evans - baritone saxophone, Peter Evans - trumpet, Moppa Elliott - bass, Jan Roth - drums
Charles/Peter Evans and the Language Of's 2nd CD, "No Relation" (GBR 2006)
"These guys are working at the margins of the market yet manage to fulfil our needs of smart syntactical deconstruction, and if you love body building there's an additional reason to appreciate Charles Evans (don't ask - check for yourself)." - Massimo Ricci
Largemouth Trio: Charles Evans - baritone saxophone, Erik Dutko - guitar, Neil Shah - voice, acoustic guitar, piano
Erik and Neil are featured on Ballads (GBR 2005,)with Moppa Elliott and Eli Hludzik (d)
Derividactory: Charles Evans - baritone saxophone/radio/tape player/phonograph,housation,live bodybuilding; Christian Pincock - -trombone, computer The Bodybuilding Beboppers - Charles Evans - baritone saxophone, James Burton - trombone, Moppa Elliott - bass, Toma Fujiwara - drums Premiering Summer 2007!!!
Influences: "There is a great Man living in this Country-a composer. He has solved the problem how to preserve one's self and to learn. He responds to negligence by contempt. He is not forced to accept praise or blame. His name is Ives."- Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schwarzenegger,Dave Liebman, John Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, Sonny Rollins, Dave Wolak, George Garzone, Gerry Mulligan, Boots Randolph, Peter Evans, Bill Evans, Clarence Evans, Genevieve Evans, Evan Parker, Michael Savage, Daniel Pipes, mosquitoes,Raymond Damadian, Neil Hamburger, Tenacious D"The practicing thing is very important to me...its not just lip-service...I have to practice or I feel like I've sherked my responsibility." - Michael Brecker
Sounds Like: "...Pepper Adams on acid." - cadence magazine
A cross between Arnold Schwartzenegger, Neil Hamburger, and the Dunnoway

Record Label: greatbendrecords.com (purchase CD's here!!!)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Best Music of the Year!

The MRI I took for my brokeback stylings last night was literally the best music/performance art I've heard of the year!You are placed inside this tunnel/coffin and are unable to move. When you go to ...
Posted by Charles Evans on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:18:00 PST

Hamburger/The D

All right, the event has simmered, and I'm ready to respond.  Bizaare. The fact that Tenacious D's mid 90's irony and humor has transformed them into rock stars is very compelling. Let's start wi...
Posted by Charles Evans on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:44:00 PST

Evan Parker live/Coltrane's logical successor

I saw Evan Parker at the Stone Sunday night...a room filled with great improvisor's, all bowing in homage to the master. He alternated between solo soprano and solo tenor saxophone pieces. Seeing some...
Posted by Charles Evans on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:09:00 PST

Tenacious D and Neil Hamburger, TOGETHER?!?!?!?!

I cannot believe that Tenacious D ("THE GREATEST BAND ON EARTH")and Neil Hamburger (2 of my biggest influences, check my influences list, ironically next to each other) will be performing together in ...
Posted by Charles Evans on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:46:00 PST

"Tuxedo to Speedo" piece

What a relief to be finished! This solo project has literally encompassed my entire summer; composing the background music, lifting, dieting, tanning, and practicing the monologue and posing rountine ...
Posted by Charles Evans on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:02:00 PST