OTHER MUSICIANS I'VE PLAYED WITH A LOT/LOVE PLAYING WITH:
Jillian Lebeck, Joe Poole, Brad Turner, Mike Magnusson, Andrea Vargas, Bess Durey, Michael Patterson, Adam Thomas, Chad Makela, Sam Cartwright, Alvaro Rojas, Aaron Joyce, Alan Matheson, Simon Stribling, grandpa Lloyd and my family, and many more whose names I couldn't mention here.
Influences
Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Joe Henderson, Seamus Blake, Chris Potter, Charles Lloyd, Sidney Bechet, my Grandpa, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Brad Turner, Simon Stribling, Stan Karp.
Also, Sly and the Family Stone, Hendrix, The Guess Who, James Brown, Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchel, Bjork...
And many more. I'll probably be adding to this list.
Born into a musical family, Evan got an early start in music. His first instruction in jazz started from the time he was seven years old with his grandfather, Lloyd Arntzen, instructing him on clarinet. Evan started playing tenor at fourteen and by the time he was seventeen, he was working professionally in his grandfather's bands as well as, shortly thereafter, in world class traditional jazz trumpet player Simon Stribling's Society Seven.
Evan spent five years in the jazz program at Capilano College in North Vancouver where he studied privately with renowned saxophone instructor, Stan Karp. He played in the "A" band for all of those 5 years as first tenor, and got to perform with such notables as Cedar Walton, Neenna Freelon, Regina Carter, Seamus Blake, Phil Dwyer, and Jon Faddis.
Over the last few years, Evan has performed, recorded and toured extensively with some of Canada's brightest young jazz talent in bands such as The Amanda Tosoff Quartet, The October Trio, and Bria's Hot 5. The October Trio has an album coming out next year featuring Juno award winning trumpeter, Brad Turner. Last year was an especially exciting year for Evan in which he recieved the Fraser MacPherson Music Scholarship and was selected amongst three other young Canadian jazz artists to take part in a series of concerts produced by CBC entitled "Still Crazy After All That Jazz" in which he got to perform with Canadian jazz legends PJ Perry, Ian McDougal, Oliver Jones, Michel Donato, and Terry Clarke.
Next year is set to be the most exciting yet for Evan. He will perform at the IAJE conference with clarinettist Francois Houle's Octet, at the Canadian National Jazz Awards with the October Trio, and embark on trips to Europe and New York.
huge thanks - nothin more to be said that you don't already know, but i'll say it again --> you're playing on my arrangment was raaaaaadical and greatly appreciated. see ya round!
Sup Evan. Cali's nice, and my packing wasn't too much of a scramble no worries. Your cd's great! i've been listening to it a bunch whenever im in the car. also these live tracks are great on october trio page, yeaaer! I'm gonna talk to tom at the rex about a gig in october, i'll let you know soon bout it. for now, keep rocking out
Hey, was it your birthday this week? On tuesday maybe? I seem to remember hearing something about that . . . it was very late though, and I could be hallucinating. Well, happy birthday anyways! (I mean, you'll have one eventually!)
dude there is a bunch of new Wayne Quartet stuff on youtube --- holy crap, stuff like Joy Rider, Adventures along the Golden Mean, and Over Shadow Hill
I'm good. Umm... I think next time I'll see you guys is wack town. My toe? It's still intact. I painted it's nail the other day... What about yours? See ya soon baboon!
Hi Evan! Thanks again for filling the gap last week! It was much appreciated and a pleasure, as always, to see you. Hope your end-of-semester's going well. See you soon!
