R. Evans

Real Name:
Richard Lee Cowan Evans
Profile:
Bassist, composer, arranger and producer.

Evans is best known as producer and arranger for Cadet Records during the 1960s and early 1970s, working with artists like Ramsey Lewis, Marlena Shaw and Dorothy Ashby. In the same period he also formed The Soulful Strings with whom he recorded several albums.

In the 1970s and 1980s he worked as bassist and arranger with artists such as Natalie Cole, Peabo Bryson and Ahmad Jamal. Currently he serves as a music professor in Boston.
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Discography

Production:
My Love's A Monster / Summertime (7", Single)   Cadet Records 1968
Mr. Melody / Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady) (12") Sophisticated Lady (Sh... Pathé Marconi EMI 1976
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My Love's A Monster / Summertime (7", Single) My Love's A Monster, M... Cadet Records 1968
Blind Over You (LP)   Gold Plate Records 1975
I Choose You (LP)   Gold Plate Records 1975
Inseparable / How Come You Won't Stay Here (7", Single)   Capitol Records 1975
This Will Be (LP, Album)   Capitol Records, EMI-Bovema Holland 1975
Loving Power (LP, Album)   Curtom 1976
Ramsey Lewis (LP, RE) Hold It Right There TELDEC, Chess 1981
What Is It / Can You Feel It (CD, Comp) Burning Spear BGP Records 1996
Blue Break Beats: Volumes One - Four (4xCD + Box, Comp) Woman Of The Ghetto Blue Note 1999
Club Fever (4xCD, Comp) Remember Me Wagram 2004
Best Of Jazz (CD, Comp, Copy Prot.) Woman Of The Ghetto EMI Music (France) 2005
The First Thing I Do In The Morning / Smilin' (7") The First Thing I Do I... Nickel  
This Will Be / Inseperable (7", Single, RE)   Starline  
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Richard Evans - Capricorn Rising