American reeds player in the early jazz era (Dixieland - Swing). Born June 20, 1904 in Olyphant, PA, died in 1991 in Florida.
He first learned to play violin. In 1923, he met Jimmy Dorsey and switched to saxophone and clarinet to play at the Saxons Society Orchestra. Eventually, he played in numerous New York City based bands and had pesonal contact with a lot of famous personalities of Jazz in that time, as the Dorsey brothers or Bix Beiderbecke. Starting from 1926, he began with recording music together with them.
Around 1954, Evans stopped recording activities and started as a teacher and ran a music store around 1960.
He retired in 1970 and moved to Deerfield Beach, FL.