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Yve Evans
58, Female
El Paso, Texas
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- Single
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- Los Angeles, California
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- Singer, pianist, actress, bandleader, producer, teacher Yve Evans Dixieland Monterey’s Musician-of-the-Year (2008)by Doug PinkhamYve Evans is far more than a consummate pianist and vocalist. She’s a many-faceted jewel--philanthropist, philosopher, healer, friend to everyone and soon-to-be ordained minister! But until you’ve talked with her quietly for an hour or so, you have only a general idea of who she really is--what she’s like in real life, what energizes her music and what animates her.We all know Yve as a superb singer and pianist, at home with the blues, gospel and jazz. She’s been on the Dixieland Monterey stage many times, and always packs the house. Her love for people permeates her music. It’s her way of giving to others. She says, “I’m always living in the hope that the lives I’ve touched have been edified”. She touches people through her music and, as she says, hugs--lots of hugs.Yve’s father was a soldier in the U.S. Army, so the family moved around a lot. They ended up in San Bernardino. Her mother was a gospel singer, pianist and minister. She taught Yve to play the piano and how to sing. She soon developed a talent for memorizing short songs and then 5-verse hymns and when she was three she debuted before a church congregation of 1500 on Easter Sunday. She remembers putting on family shows--Yve’s mom played and the children sang. So Yve discovered that singing makes a space of its own and heals. ”That space is a place nobody else can touch. It’s good for the mind and body,” she says.Yve had a broad education in Japan, Europe and the U.S., including opera and theater studies at the University of California, Irvine School of Fine Arts. She studied classical piano in Nuremburg, Germany and the U.S. Her style has been influenced by great vocalists including Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Bobby Darin, Della Reese, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christie, Joe Williams and Ernestine Anderson, as well by her associations with keyboard artists like Dorothy Donegan, Bill Evans, Errol Garner and George Gaffney.For almost 50 years, now, Yve has been busy with her music, traveling the country and the world. Japan, Brazil, Germany, Canada, Spain and Italy were highlights. She is always busy with bookings, particularly in Southern California where she is widely known. The first jazz festival Yve worked was the Classic Jazz Festival LAX about 20 years ago. Some five years later, Yve and her manager, Prince Moore, went to the Desert Dixieland Festival at the Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs. Prince introduced her to Bob Finch of the Chicago 6 and asked if she could sing a song with the band. She did, and the crowd went wild, so she sang another and was invited to sing in the next show. The following year she he was hired by the Classic Festival and has been going strong ever since: Mammoth Lakes, Dessert Dixieland, Indian Wells Jazz, Palm Springs Jazz, Park City (Utah) Jazz, Idylwild Jazz in the Pines, Lake Tahoe Jazz, Sacramento Jubilee, LA Sweet and Hot, Sun Valley Jazz, Monterey Bay Blues Festival, Sisters Jazz, Chilliwack, B.C. Jazz , Coos Bay Jazz and Dixieland Monterey’s Jazz Bash-by-the-Bay. Recently, she says, she was impelled to put it to God this way: “I’d like to work less for more”. So now she’s donating her talent more and more to fundraisers for community service organizations like one of her favorites, the Palm Springs area Jewish Family Services.Nowadays, she gets a real lift out of mentoring children because she’s convinced that music makes better and smarter citizens. Yve says, “Little people are sponges. Love them. It helps to put into them what they will remember and draw out old stuff they don’t need to remember.” Her philosophy of teaching: ”Don’t try to get kids to sound like someone, but like themselves. She tells the kids, “Playing music is not only a gift--it is a privilege. Strive to be the best you can be. And remember, it’s important not to be important, but to do interesting things”.Yve lost her husband in 1991. Later, as she tells it, when she was looking for a place to settle down, she came to a road junction in Santa Clarita, just north of Los Angeles. The sign to the left said “Shopping Center” and the one to the right said “Friendly Valley”, so she chose “Friendly” over “Shopping”, turned right and found a 1960s neighborhood with echoes of Bob Hope--just right for her funny bone. She lives there today, happily, with Smokey, her amazing 28-year old cat (almost half her own age!).Toward the end of 2006, when Yve announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer, she said on television “I have cancer. I’m not sick...I have lymphoma.” When she lost her hair during chemotherapy, three of her friends--Ava Dupree, Drue Mees and Yolanda Klappert--got together and shaved their heads in support. Said Ava in a television news report, “If an angel got to take human form and walk on the earth, that would be Yve.” Yve says that two or three times things looked somber and when the doctor said “You’re going to die”, her answer was: “If I live, I live. If I die, I live.”In May, 2007, she announced that she was cancer-free and getting better every day. Her presence at this year’s Jazz Bash-by-the-Bay is proof of that! She attributes her return to health to prayer--plain and simple. The prayers of countless people--people she didn’t even know. “Now,” she says, “ I no longer need to recapture a moment, I just stay in it all the time.” If Yve were to sum it up, she’d say: “Celebrate each day!”So, welcome back, Yve! We’re glad you’re with us! Let’s all celebrate!You’re invited to visit Yve any time at www.yveevans.com.
- How did you hear about the Jazz Network?
- My drummer, Larry Washington, is on the cutting edge and "in- the-know"...He encouraged me to join.
- Website:
- http://www.yveevans.com
Ernestine Anderson needs Help
ARTICLE IN TODAYS NEWS PAPER(SEATTLE PI)
From: 1maryyoung@comcast.net
To: ggib16@hotmail.com
Subject: FW: Ernestine Anderson
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:42:26 -0700
Hi Gene:
Here is the letter you can forward or pass on to anyone who wishes to contribute.
Thanks,
Mary (Ms. M.)
-----Original Message-----
From: 4sjyoung@comcast.net [mailto:4sjyoung@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:43 PM
To: 1maryyoung@comcast.net
Subject: Ernestine Anderson
> Dear Friends,
>
> We hear stories daily of people who are being forced to foreclose on their homes and it is truly heartbreaking. Recently, celebrities such as Ed McMahon and Evander Holyfield are in foreclosure.
> Unfortunately, that is a reality for many in this troubled economy and now, it has affected our own living legend, the incomparable Ernestine Anderson who is a four-time Grammy Nominee.
> We are reaching out and seeking support to help Ms. Anderson save her home, where her family has lived since 1946, in Seattle's Central District.
Any financial contribution to avoid this misfortune will gladly be accepted.
An account has been set-up for her at Bank of America in Washington State under the name of 'The Ernestine Anderson
Fund'. You can go to any Bank of America to make a donation to this fund. People who live outside of Washington State may also make a donation at Bank of America. Please let them know to reference Bank of America - Washington State for The Ernestine Anderson Fund.
> Ms. Anderson has exhausted all resources and she has until June 30th to raise at least $45,000 or her family home will be foreclosed. Any additional money raised will be used to assist Ms. Anderson to offset the existing mortgage of this property which will give her peace of mind in the future. Without our financial support, her home is scheduled to be auctioned off on July 11th.
> We appeal to everyone who has been touched by Ms. Anderson's artistry, to join us in this effort. As 2008 marks Ms. Anderson's 80th birthday - a true milestone, we hope that as a community we can rally and give back for all the gifts she has bestowed on so many.
> Please feel free to forward this email to anyone and everyone who is willing to help. We need everyone's support now as the clock is ticking.
>
> With much gratitude and sincere appreciation,
Carver & Carmen Gayton
From: 1maryyoung@comcast.net
To: ggib16@hotmail.com
Subject: FW: Ernestine Anderson
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:42:26 -0700
Hi Gene:
Here is the letter you can forward or pass on to anyone who wishes to contribute.
Thanks,
Mary (Ms. M.)
-----Original Message-----
From: 4sjyoung@comcast.net [mailto:4sjyoung@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:43 PM
To: 1maryyoung@comcast.net
Subject: Ernestine Anderson
> Dear Friends,
>
> We hear stories daily of people who are being forced to foreclose on their homes and it is truly heartbreaking. Recently, celebrities such as Ed McMahon and Evander Holyfield are in foreclosure.
> Unfortunately, that is a reality for many in this troubled economy and now, it has affected our own living legend, the incomparable Ernestine Anderson who is a four-time Grammy Nominee.
> We are reaching out and seeking support to help Ms. Anderson save her home, where her family has lived since 1946, in Seattle's Central District.
Any financial contribution to avoid this misfortune will gladly be accepted.
An account has been set-up for her at Bank of America in Washington State under the name of 'The Ernestine Anderson
Fund'. You can go to any Bank of America to make a donation to this fund. People who live outside of Washington State may also make a donation at Bank of America. Please let them know to reference Bank of America - Washington State for The Ernestine Anderson Fund.
> Ms. Anderson has exhausted all resources and she has until June 30th to raise at least $45,000 or her family home will be foreclosed. Any additional money raised will be used to assist Ms. Anderson to offset the existing mortgage of this property which will give her peace of mind in the future. Without our financial support, her home is scheduled to be auctioned off on July 11th.
> We appeal to everyone who has been touched by Ms. Anderson's artistry, to join us in this effort. As 2008 marks Ms. Anderson's 80th birthday - a true milestone, we hope that as a community we can rally and give back for all the gifts she has bestowed on so many.
> Please feel free to forward this email to anyone and everyone who is willing to help. We need everyone's support now as the clock is ticking.
>
> With much gratitude and sincere appreciation,
Carver & Carmen Gayton
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INSPIRATIONAL CORNER
Uncle Hugh 'Peanuts' Whalum is my 80 year-old uncle who has FORGOTTEN more about jazz than I've even learned yet! He released his CD "Introducing Hugh 'Peanuts' Whalum" after gigging in the St. Louis scene for over 55 years! Needless to say his voice, his saxophone, his piano... like a fine, aged Merlot. His energy?! I dare not try and keep up. I'm on stage falling asleep by the time he gets going good – cut from a different cloth. Arnette, Coleman, Hamp, Hank... fine cloth.
Why do I bring them up? Because they represent something really important that we now get to enjoy, like they did back then, but now through technology on sites like this, that we've been missing.
The good news, since family – in this case JAZZ FAMILY – and relationships are much more important, more fulfilling... is that I feel RICHER knowing and following you guys music on THE JAZZ NETWORK!
Sincerely,
Kirk WHALUM
www.kirkwhalum.com
"Congratulations on your creativity, energy and dedication to Jazz, knowing and have worked with your Dad ~ its all in the genes".
~Clem De Rosa
Professional Musician, Educator, Arranger, Composer and Band Leader
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If you are interested in becoming a client, please let her know.
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Contact her here on the site to discuss your creative thoughts!
Happy Networking!
:-)
Artwork courtesy of Jeff Laibson
SPOTLIGHTED ARTISTS
Finding THE JAZZ NETWORK has been an amazing experience for Musique Noire. The opportunity to not only gain exposure among the jazz community, but to also learn and network with others in the jazz world has been invaluable. It is a place where we are all treated equally, whether one is a major label act or an indie artist, whether one plays traditional jazz or any of the "branches" of the jazz Family "tree".
Musique Noire is honored to be spotlighted here and are deeply grateful to Jaijai for creating this wonderful world. We're here to stay!
~ Musique Noire
Jaijai, what a wonderful mission you've undertaken to create such a place for artistic minds to meet and share their hearts. A place to renew faded determinations, and revive lessened momentums. A place to display our wares and reconfirm to one another that we actually are on the right track.
I commend you, Jaijai, for caring so much that you created this castle of the heart for all of us. I want to share my praise for all of the new friends as well as old friends that I've met and will meet here in our castle. Here we can garnish the where-with-all, the strength, the conviction, and the selflessness through our symbiosis, to share our gift to the world with an unbiased agenda.
My mentor, Daisaku Ikeda says of art: "A beautiful flower delights and refreshes the hearts of all people equally, no matter what soil it grows in. That is the power of beauty. The same is true of great art. It is this spirit that the German poet Heinrich Heine sang of when he wrote that once the peapod bursts open, the sugar peas inside are for everyone to enjoy."
Let's be audacious, my friends!
Buster Williams
"It was a pleasure to be featured on the Jazz Network Main Page. This Network is a unique forward step for independence, contact and conversation between artist, promoters/agents and fans.
Thank you Jaijai for offering a professional meeting place. I've met new musicians and rediscovered old friends I haven't seen or heard from in years. May we all continue to expand this network.
~ Will Calhoun
"I think that what Jaijai Jackson has done with the Jazz Network shows how the eternal love for this music is passed down from generation to generation. The fire her father lit in her has burned brightly and has inspired her to pass this torch on to future generations. I'm very proud to be featured and I'm very happy that Jazz has a voice and spirit like Jaijai looking after it."
~ Ron Kearns
I am so honored to be on The Jazz Network with so many wonderful and dedicated musicians. Jazz is the truly American art form and as I travel to other countries I find that their appreciation for jazz is really uplifting. There are so many excellent jazz musicians around the world now and The Jazz Network is helping us to find each other. Thank goodness for people like Jaijai who have dedicated so much time and effort to keep the jazz community together and for opening doors to us that we may never have found.
Regarding education in jazz, having done Master Classes in many places I find students need to take time and learn from the Masters and LISTEN. They should go back in history to appreciate ALL styles of jazz and its development. They need to learn melodies and lyrics (yes, even instrumentalists need to know lyrics) and that jazz is not just a series of modes and riffs. I think The Jazz Network can be an excellent tool for that also.
Thank you Jaijai...you are awesome!
~ Lenore Raphael
"Thank you Jaijai for creating a space for the likes of me! I truly enjoy being featured here and really hope it can give me new contacts and opportunities.
Keep up the good work!"
~ Patrick Rydman
Sweden
"The Jazz Network has come into being at just the right time. I believe that we are forever in need of spiritual and artistic enrichment and the way I see it, music, particularly jazz music, is all about the spirit. The Jazz Network allows us to reach out to our fellow artists across the world, in a way that has not been seen before, enlightening us as to who's out there making hip and happening music and helping to shape the culture. Whether artists approach this music from traditional perspectives or attempt to create new and radical sub-genres of jazz, the Jazz Network
is providing exposure, performance and recording opportunities that we might never have found on our own.
The Jazz Network is an amazing resource for the Jazz community. I'm
honored and happy to be a part of it.
Jaijai, thanks for your faith and what you're doing for the jazz community"
Best,
Nicolas
It’s a rare occasion when you meet someone who you feel a real connection to … Someone who possesses a kind spirit, unyielding generosity and a dedication to the jazz community beyond expectations.
Jaijai, thank you so much for creating such a fantastic website for the jazz community. You’ve helped artists connect with each other around the world.
I’m proud to have The Jazz Network be the first site to promote my latest recording. Words cannot express my gratitude to you for your dedication to the music and the artists.
With much love and gratitude,
Denise Donatelli
Hi Jaijai,
Stopping by to show you some love and tell you just how much I appreciate all you've been doing here, not just for me but for this incredible community of jazz musicians. I see that The Jazz Network is growing in leaps and bounds daily and want you to know that I recognize the importance of what's going on here, musicians having a place to connect with each other, young musicians having a place to meet and be mentored by musicians who have been around the block. You've created a beautiful space here and it's obvious that folks are feeling very much at home. Thanks for sharing your time, your heart, your soul. This is a huge commitment and you've taken it on with such determination. I wish you and The Jazz Network continued success and support you in all you're doing.
~ Marcus
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I was excited to see your profile here also. I am so glad the virtual world is permitting us to reconnect. there was no such thing back in the 90s. I left the Boilermaker Jazz Band in 1998 and I am back where I belong playing my horns. I have also created a body of lyrical works that have morphed into several plays I call "Boperettas." It started in 1993 when I began to lyricize my favorite bebop tunes. so far I have written lyrics to 124 classic tunes. Please join my vocal blog when you get a minute: http://vocalese.peopleaggregator.net
We will keep in close touch from now on.
Hugz,
Nelson
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