Artist's albums
Deja Vu
2001 · album
Grown Folk Bizness
1999 · album
The Red Door
2023 · album
The Red Door
2023 · single
The Good Life
2023 · single
Weezy
2023 · single
Dexter's Tune
2023 · single
What the World Needs Now
2023 · single
Maaj Paaj
2023 · single
EEE (Eubanks-Evans-Experience)
2022 · album
Novice Bounce
2022 · single
The Magic of Now
2021 · album
The Intangible Between
2020 · album
Presence
2018 · album
#knowingishalfthebattle
2016 · album
Liberation Blues
2015 · album
The Evolution of Oneself
2015 · album
Mother's Touch
2014 · album
"...It Was Beauty"
2013 · album
Flip The Script
2012 · album
Freedom
2011 · album
Captain Black Big Band
2011 · album
Meant to Shine
2002 · album
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Biography
For more than two decades, pianist/composer Orrin Evans has made an art form of the unexpected. Releasing more than 25 albums without the support of a major label, Evans has become the model of a fiercely independent artist who’s made a habit of rattling the jazz world’s confining cages. That determination has paid off in accolades like topping the “Rising Star Pianist” category in the 2018 DownBeat Critics Poll. His wide-ranging projects span mutable small group settings and the raucous Captain Black Big Band, (nominated for a Grammy in 2019 and again in 2021), the nerve-rattling collective trio Tarbaby and the latest twist in his never predictable story, becoming the first new member of The Bad Plus in the trio’s nearly 20-year history. Evans has collaborated with a who’s-who of modern jazz including Nicholas Payton, Sean Jones, Oliver Lake, JD Allen, Christian McBride, Eric Revis, Buster Williams, Karriem Riggins, Nasheet Waits, Kevin Eubanks and Kurt Rosenwinkel, among countless others. - Shaun Brady