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Yve Evans

YVE EVANS - Singer - Pianist - Entertainer Songwriter - Actor - Producer

ALL ABOUT YVE* At age three singing before a congregation of 1500 people on Easter Sunday, Yve Evans had no idea that performance was her destiny. However, the little girl grew up to be an outstanding Singer and Pianist.

There is an intangible quality in her music that gives it a life of its own; life that reaches out and touches the souls of the people that hear it.

Yve has performed all around the world...Japan, Canada, Spain and Italy are a few places that come to mind. Evans has played with some of the greats in jazz and cut five CD's. (All done live and in only one take the way jazz was meant to be.) The title of her latest CD sums up her style "3 Degrees Celsius - not frozen, just very cool".

Evans was educated in the United States, Japan and Europe. Evans was mentored by internationally renowned choral conductor Jester Harriston and attended the University of Califorina, Irvine, School of Fine Arts where she studied Opera and Theater.

Evans' band (she calls it her Company) is comprised of some of the industry's most accomplished musicians. Each performance shows a dedication to the tradition and understanding of Jazz and it's timeless repertoire. The goal is sharing the sheer joy and freedom that her music brings, or at the very least taking the audience on a musical roller coaster ride with Yve at the helm.

Evans the singer, cites some of some of the finest vocalist in the world as her main influences - Sarah Vaughn, Ernie Andrews, Joe Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christie, Della Reese, Bobby Darin and Rosemary Clooney.

Evans the pianist, has leaned over the shoulders of, swapped chord changes with and stolen licks from Dorothy Donegan, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, George Gafney, Carmen McCrae and Shirley Horn.

Yve takes her stage show lead from two of the greatest female performers that ever walked onto a stage....Pearl Bailey and Della Reese.

Much like Ray Charles, Yve loves all music. She is just as happy recording jazz, blues, gospel, music for children or maybe even country-western-jazz-blues. We will just wait and see about that one.

*Pronouced Eve

Awards

The desert theater leagues Best Actor Award for 2009 for her work in “Going to St. Ives” at the Arthur Newman Theater in Palm Desert.................... . . The 22nd Annual Desert Stars Awards - November 15, 2009..... . . Dixieland Monterey’s Jazz Musician-of-the-Year 2008........ . . The Palm Springs Desert Theatre League presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to Yve Evans 2007............. . . Great Ladies of Jazz awarded to Yve Evans by Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree 2004................


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Yve Evans & Co.: The Gospel According To Yve

Read "The Gospel According To Yve" reviewed by AAJ Staff


A warm, R&B-influenced jazz singer/pianist with an impressive range and a great sense of humor, the L.A.-based Yve Evans hasn’t yet gotten the commercial break she deserves but continues to put out highly enjoyable CDs. Gospel and the Afro American church experience has clearly had a strong impact on her musically, and she celebrates that inspiration with her first gospel-oriented release The Gospel According To Yve. From “Wade In The Water” and “Sweet By And By” to “This Little Light ...

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Yve Evans Quintet To Appear Free in Pacific Palisades, CA

Yve Evans Quintet To Appear Free in Pacific Palisades, CA

Source: All About Jazz

Palisades Lutheran Church Presents Yve Evans and Company in Concert What? Internationally acclaimed entertainer Yve Evans along with her world-class band, Company. This is jazz at its best! Where? Palisades Lutheran Church, 15905 Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, 310459-2358 When? Sunday, January 9, 2005 Time? 4:30pm Cost? Free Occasion? Ms. Evans is the kickoff concert for our 2005 concert series Second Sundays. Starting January 9, 2005, there will be a concert on the second Sunday of every other month. ...

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