Doc Evans

Doc Evans Doc Evans American jazz musician This article is about a jazz cornetist. For the athletic director, see Dana Evans (athletic director). Paul Wesley "Doc" Evans (June 20, 1907 – January 10, 1977) was an American jazz cornetist.[1] Evans was born in Spring Valley, Minnesota.[2] the son of a Methodist minister. He learned piano and drums as a child, and played saxophone in high school. He graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in English, and played with the Carleton Collegians dance band there. He gave up saxophone in the late 1920s for cornet, and played Dixieland jazz regularly in Minneapolis at that time. Evans continued to play through the Great Depression, turning down offers to play outside of…

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