DOC EVANS

Dixieland • United States
Jazz music community with review and forums
DOC EVANS picture
Paul Wesley "Doc" Evans (June 20, 1907, Spring Valley, Minnesota – January 10, 1977, Minneapolis, Minnesota was an American jazz cornetist. Evans was the son of a Methodist minister. He learned piano and drums as a child, and played saxophone in high school. He graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in English, and played with the Carleton Collegians dance band there. He gave up saxophone in the late 1920s for cornet, and played Dixieland jazz regularly in Minneapolis at that time. Evans continued to play through the Great Depression, turning down offers to play outside of the Midwest. In 1947 he recorded for Disc Records, and led the band that played for the opening of Chicago's Jazz Limited club. He stayed in Chicago until 1952, and then embarked on nationwide tours, recording frequently along the way (particularly for Audiophile Records). He returned to Minneapolis and continued playing jazz up until his last read more...
Thanks to snobb for the addition

DOC EVANS Online Videos

See all DOC EVANS videos

Buy DOC EVANS music

More places to buy jazz & DOC EVANS music

DOC EVANS Discography

DOC EVANS albums / top albums

DOC EVANS Doc Evans And His 6-Alarm 6 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Doc Evans And His 6-Alarm 6
Dixieland 1950
DOC EVANS Traditional Jazz ( XL-328) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Traditional Jazz ( XL-328)
Dixieland 1953
DOC EVANS Dixieland Encore album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dixieland Encore
Dixieland 1954
DOC EVANS Traditional Jazz (XL-329) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Traditional Jazz (XL-329)
Dixieland 1955
DOC EVANS Cornet Artistry album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Cornet Artistry
Dixieland 1956
DOC EVANS Reminiscing In Dixieland, Stomps And Blues Vol. 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Reminiscing In Dixieland, Stomps And Blues Vol. 1
Dixieland 1956
DOC EVANS Traditional Jazz Vol. 6 (Dixieland, Of Course) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Traditional Jazz Vol. 6 (Dixieland, Of Course)
Dixieland 1956
DOC EVANS Traditional Jazz Vol. 7 (Dixieland, Of Course) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Traditional Jazz Vol. 7 (Dixieland, Of Course)
Dixieland 1956
DOC EVANS Traditional Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Traditional Jazz
Dixieland 1957
DOC EVANS Spirituals and Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spirituals and Blues
Dixieland 1959
DOC EVANS 0.00 | 0 ratings
"Doc" + 4 = Dixie
Dixieland 1959
DOC EVANS Muskrat Ramble album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Muskrat Ramble
Dixieland 1959
DOC EVANS Reminiscing In Dixieland, Stomps And Blues Vol. 2 (aka A Cure for the Blues) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Reminiscing In Dixieland, Stomps And Blues Vol. 2 (aka A Cure for the Blues)
Dixieland 1959
DOC EVANS Black Snake Blues A Dixieland Spectacular album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Black Snake Blues A Dixieland Spectacular
Dixieland 1963
DOC EVANS Source To Delta - Doc Meets Doc album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Source To Delta - Doc Meets Doc
Dixieland 1964
DOC EVANS The Golden Horn Speaks Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Golden Horn Speaks Jazz
Dixieland 1973
DOC EVANS Jazz Heritage - Volume One album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Heritage - Volume One
Dixieland 1980
DOC EVANS Jazz Heritage Vol 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Heritage Vol 2
Dixieland 1980
DOC EVANS Jazz Heritage - Volume Three album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Heritage - Volume Three
Dixieland 1980

DOC EVANS EPs & splits

DOC EVANS live albums

DOC EVANS Dixieland Concert album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dixieland Concert
Dixieland 1953
DOC EVANS Dixieland Concert Vol 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dixieland Concert Vol 1
Dixieland 1957
DOC EVANS Dixieland Concert Vol 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dixieland Concert Vol 2
Dixieland 1957
DOC EVANS Dixieland Concert vol.3 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dixieland Concert vol.3
Dixieland 1957
DOC EVANS Doc Evans at the Gas Light album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Doc Evans at the Gas Light
Dixieland 1967

DOC EVANS demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

DOC EVANS re-issues & compilations

DOC EVANS Doc Evans & His Dixieland Jazz Band album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Doc Evans & His Dixieland Jazz Band
Dixieland 1980
DOC EVANS Down in Jungle Town album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Down in Jungle Town
Dixieland 1987
DOC EVANS Four or Five Times album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Four or Five Times
Dixieland 2002
DOC EVANS Live album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live
Dixieland 2006
DOC EVANS At the Gas Light (2008) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
At the Gas Light (2008)
Dixieland 2008
DOC EVANS Jazz Heritage album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Heritage
Dixieland 2009
DOC EVANS Spirituals & Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Spirituals & Blues
Dixieland 2009

DOC EVANS singles (0)

DOC EVANS movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)

DOC EVANS Reviews

No DOC EVANS music reviews posted yet.

DOC EVANS Movies Reviews

No DOC EVANS movie reviews posted yet.

DOC EVANS Shouts

Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

JMA TOP 5 Jazz ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
A Love Supreme Post Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners
Kind of Blue Cool Jazz
MILES DAVIS
Buy this album from our partners
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Progressive Big Band
CHARLES MINGUS
Buy this album from our partners
Blue Train Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners
My Favorite Things Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE
Buy this album from our partners

New Jazz Artists

New Jazz Releases

Cabaret Eclectic Fusion
MARIUS NESET
Buy this album from MMA partners
Living Ghosts Post-Fusion Contemporary
MICHAEL WOLLNY
Buy this album from MMA partners
Live at Donte's, Vol. 1 Vocal Jazz
MIKE CAMPBELL
Buy this album from MMA partners
Sunday Afternoon Fusion
FURIO DI CASTRI
Buy this album from MMA partners
São Paulo Creative 4 : Supernova Avant-Garde Jazz
IVO PERELMAN
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Jazz Online Videos

Sunday afternoon
FURIO DI CASTRI
snobb· 3 hours ago
Harmônicos
FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO
js· 17 hours ago
Con Alma
GENE BERTONCINI
js· 20 hours ago
Our Walk (Live)
BEN MARKLEY
js· 21 hours ago
More videos

New JMA Jazz Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Jazz News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us