Steve Evans Quartet - 2 Sets
Click here to purchaseA hip new jazz singer from Chicago – one with an equal ear for older standards and more contemporary tunes! Steve Evans has a quality that's quite different from most of his contemporaries – a warmly fluid style of singing that's often quite soulful, in ways that really brings a new sort of energy to the tracks selected for the album. His approach is neither classic rehash, nor the sort of sleepy vocals that often play over downtempo beats – and instead, he mixes his vocals wonderfully with some live acoustic instrumentation – just a bit of piano, bass, and drums – again used in ways that are less conventionally jazz than you might expect. Add to the mix a selection of tunes by writers as diverse as Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Matt Dennis, Tom Jones, and Lucas Santtana -- and you've got a very compelling little album, one that makes us proud to share a hometown with Steve! The session was recorded live in the studio – broken into two "sets", hence the title.
– Dusty Groove America
- 2 Sets features
- Leandro Lopez Varady on piano
- Jake Vinsel on bass
- Noritaka Tanaka on drums.
Quotes about 2 Sets
"An interpretive blackbelt, on the same level of Kurt Elling and Tierney Sutton…daring and refreshing."
- All About Jazz
"In Steve Evans we may have found a new star."
- Mucchio, Italy
"A voice that seems a cross between Nina Simone and Jeff Buckley, but with a layer of jazz in the style of Kurt Elling"
- Rock Star, Italy
Track Listing Listen to a preview of the album
Disk 1
- Into Shade
- Arto Lindsay, Lucas Santana
- Clap Hands
- Tom Waits
- River Man
- Nick Drake
- Lost Mind
- Percy Heath
- Jockey Full Of Bourbon
- Tom Waits
- There’s A Lull In My Life
- Mack Gordon, Harry Revel
- Concierto De Aranjuez / The Way Young Lovers Do
- Rodrigo / Van Morrison
- Corpus Christi Carol
- Benjamin Britten
Disk 1
- Things behing the sun
- Nick Drake
- Soon It’s Gonna Rain
- Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt
- The Part You Throw Away
- Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan
- Ill Wind
- Harold Arlen
- Saidas E Bandeiras
- Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant
- Fruit Tree
- Nick Drake
- The Night We Called It A Day
- Tom Adair, Matt Dennis