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| 1. | I Want to Be Happy
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| 2. | Explain It to Me
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| 3. | 5-4-94
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| 4. | When Jen Came In
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| 5. | Rhythm-A-Ning
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| 6. | Dorm Life
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| 7. | Monroe
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| 8. | I Love You
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| 9. | Big Jimmy
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Jazz / Post-Bop
Orrin Evans - Producer, Executive, Piano
Andrea Bucci Photography
Byron Landham Producer, Drums
Don Antonelli Graphic Design
Kathy Ridl Graphic Design
Kent Heckman Engineer
Matthew Parrish Bass, Producer
Deja Vu is a reissue of a disc originally released in 1995 as The Trio, featuring Orrin Evans on piano, Matthew Parrish on bass, and Byron Landham on drums. Great playing abounds on this early session. Its interest is heightened by the appearance of several pieces that Evans would go on to record on his later Criss Cross albums: "Explain It to Me," "Dorm Life," "Big Jimmy," and Monk's "Rhythm-a-Ning." The opening "I Want to Be Happy," played in a straight-ahead, lilting 3/4, is quite different from the daring treatment the standard would receive five or so years later on Evans' Listen to the Band. Previously unheard Evans originals also appear, such as "Monroe" and "5-4-94," the latter a solo piano feature. The showstopper is an extended, medium-swing reading of Cole Porter's "I Love You." Now that Evans has established himself as a pianist to be reckoned with, Deja Vu provides a timely look back. ~ David R. Adler, All Music Guide
Orrin Evans
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Born in Trenton, NJ but raised in Philadelphia, acoustic pianist Orrin Evans was among the "Young Lions" of straight-ahead jazz who emerged in the 1990s. His main focus is hard bop, although he has occasionally detoured into soul-jazz and R&B when backing such vocalists as Denise King and his wife, Dawn Warren. Influenced by McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, among others, Evans graduated from high school in the early 1990s and studied at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ before going on to study privately with Kenny Barron and be employed as a sideman by Bobby Watson, Ralph Peterson, Duane Eubanks, singer Lenora Zenzalai-Helm and others. Evans recorded his first CD as a leader, The Orrin Evans Trio, for his own Black Entertainment label in 1994. After that, he signed with Criss Cross and recorded Justin Time in 1997, Captain Black in 1998 and Grown Folks Bizness in 1999. Listen to the Band followed a year later, with Blessed Ones and Meant to Shine following soon, continuing his yearly release schedule.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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