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.