February 9, 1939(1939-02-09) (aged 29) New York City
Genres
Jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Tenor saxophone
Musical artist
Herschel "Tex" Evans (9 March 1909 – 9 February 1939)[a][1][2][3][4] was an American tenor saxophonist who was a member of the Count Basie Orchestra.[5] He also worked with Lionel Hampton and Buck Clayton.[6] He is also known for starting his cousin Joe McQueen's interest in the saxophone. Joe McQueen, living until 2019 at age 100, may well have been the last surviving person to have known Herschel during his lifetime.
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sense, he was more influenced by horn players such as Lester Young and HerschelEvans than by early arch-top guitarists like Eddie Lang and the jazz- and...
musical world. Count Basie Earl Caruthers Buck Clayton Maxwell Davis HerschelEvans Coleman Hawkins Pete Johnson Jo Jones Andy Kirk King Kolax Julia Lee...
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band, sometime home to trumpeter Don Albert, and tenor saxophonists HerschelEvans and Buddy Tate. Floyd's band regularly played at both the Shadowland...
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were based on those of the Super series. Zoot Sims (Radio Improved) HerschelEvans Coleman Hawkins (Radio Improved, including 1939 Body and Soul recording)...
Matty Matlock Ray Bauduc, HerschelEvans, Bob Haggard, Eddie Miller, Lester Young, Matty Matlock, Howard Theatre, Washington D.C., ca. 1941. Background...
which he lived with his grandparents. in part because of his cousin, HerschelEvans, a saxophonist with Count Basie during the 1930s. He developed a relationship...
Herschel Greer Stadium was a Minor League Baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee, on the grounds of Fort Negley, an American Civil War fortification, approximately...
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