The Doc Evans Jazz Festival
for 2007 is being combined with
the Carleton College Doc Evans Centennial Celebration
Doc Evans (2nd from right) with the Carleton band in 1927.
Doc Evans (1907 to 1977) graduated from Carleton College a B.A. in English in 1929. While at Carleton, Doc played with Carleton Collegians, a campus group that played for school dances and various local events. His ability to play piano, sax and drums made him a particularly valuable member of the ensemble. He found a second-hand cornet and began bringing it along to dance jobs, where he would alternate between tenor sax and cornet. "Finally I decided that the cornet was my instrument, and I had to decide what to do about my saxÑso I gave it up."
This centennial celebration of his birth will include a convocation and concert by the Doc Evans Memorial Band (led by Butch Thompson and featuring Jon-Erik Kellso on trumpet) on Friday.
Saturday will feature a symposium in the morning morning with John Hasse, Curator of American Music, National Museum of American Music, Smithsonian Institution; Jeffrey Taylor, Associate Professor of Music, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York; and Mark Flaherty, Assistant Professor of Music, Northern Michigan University. A panel discussion in the afternoon will conclude the weekend.
Schedule
Friday October 5
Convocation:
10:50-11:50 a.m. “An Introduction to Traditional Jazz” with the
Chapel Doc Evans Centennial Band with Butch Thompson
Butch Thompson, Clarinet
Jon-Erik Kellso and Charlie DeVore, Trumpets
Bill Evans, Bass
Dave Graf, Trombone
Mike Polad, Piano
Phil Hey, Drums
Concert: Doc Evans Centennial Band in Concert
8:00 p.m.
Chapel
Saturday October 6
9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Symposium: Doc Evans and Traditional Jazz
“Jazz and American Culture”
John Hasse (‘71), Curator of American Music, National Museum of American Music, Smithsonian Institution
“The Dixieland Jazz Revival Revisited”
Jeffrey Taylor (’81), Associate Professor of Music,
Brooklyn College, The City University of New York
“The Cornet Style of Doc Evans”
Mark Flaherty (’94), Assistant Professor of Music, Northern Michigan University
1:30-3:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: “Remembering Doc”
Butch Thompson, Charlie DeVore, Leigh Kammen, Allan Evans
Video: Doc Evans with Art Hodes, Chicago PBS (1968)