Last night the lovely and extremely talented 97 year old musician and record producer died. An expert saxophonist he played with Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton as well as being a regular in the house bands of the Apollo and Savoy. He toured with the first ever Motown Revues and recorded The Manhattans, Lovettes, Lee Williams and the Cymbals, Pretenders, Norma Jenkins and many others.

He was incredibly kind, friendly and funny and very appreciative of his European admirers

Sad news. Thanks to Joe we were lucky to hear so many top tunes from Carnival Records

Bad news, but for once, someone has died at a decent age, R.I.P Joe. The Carnival sound is a distinctive iconic sound coveted by many collectors, I have around 30 on the label and love every single one of them, how many labels can you say that about, that oh so soulful deep sounding sax evident in many of the recordings always accompanied by great soulful vocals.

 

A Joe Evans production, nuff said

 

Kev

Edited January 18, 201411 yr by kev cane

You did a great job with those Kent / Carnival CD's Ady. No wonder Joe appreciated us Europeans (mainly thanks to you I'd say).

R.I.P. Joe Evans

 

Here's what he shortly told about his career a couple of years ago (please scroll down a bit):

 

https://www.soulexpress.net/manhattans_part1.htm

 

Best regards

Heikki

So sad,just loved his  productions and I remember Ady you telling me what a wonderful person he was