Stump Evans
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Paul "Stump" Evans was an American
Jazz
Saxophonist.
He played with many famous jazz musicians of the time including Jelly Roll Morton
and Kid Ory
on many different sizes of saxophone but is most famous for playing C melody saxophone
with King Oliver in King Oliver's Jazz Band.
Stump Evans is a most underrated sax player, and is heard at his best on the new orleans wa nderers discs with Dodds,and with Morton.His double tempo breaks point to where he might have gone but for his REALLY untimely aged 24.I read he died with TB.
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Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
Saxophonist.
He played with many famous jazz musicians of the time including Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....
and Kid Ory
Kid Ory
Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.-Biography:...
on many different sizes of saxophone but is most famous for playing C melody saxophone
C melody saxophone
The C melody saxophone is a saxophone pitched in the key of C, one whole step above the tenor saxophone. In the UK it is sometimes referred to as a "C tenor", and in France as a "tenor en ut". The C melody was part of the series of saxophones pitched in C and F, intended by the instrument's...
with King Oliver in King Oliver's Jazz Band.
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Stump Evans is a most underrated sax player, and is heard at his best on the new orleans wa nderers discs with Dodds,and with Morton.His double tempo breaks point to where he might have gone but for his REALLY untimely aged 24.I read he died with TB.