Sue Evans

Sue Evans (b. July 7, 1951, New York City) is an American jazz percussionist.

Evans played piano before switching to drums. She studied under Warren Smith and Sonny Igoe, and graduated in 1969 from the High School of Music and Art. She was Judy Collins's touring drummer from 1969 to 1973, and worked with Gil Evans from 1969 to 1982. In the 1970s she worked with Steve Kuhn, Art Farmer, Bobby Jones, George Benson, Urbie Green, and Roswell Rudd's Jazz Composers Orchestra, in addition to playing with the New York Pops Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In the 1980s, she worked with Michael Franks, Suzanne Vega, Tony Bennett, and Morgana King. Other associations include touring or recording with James Brown, Billy Cobham, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Sadao Watanabe, Hubert Laws, Randy Brecker, David Sanborn, and Terence Blanchard.

Evans won National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Most Valuable Awards in 1984, 1987, and 1989.

References

*Ron Wynn, [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hzftxqt5ldfe~T1 Sue Evans] at Allmusic