Orrin Evans, an acoustic piano player, was born in Trenton, NJ, but grew up in Philadelphia. He was one of the “Young Lions” of straight-ahead jazz that emerged in the 1990s. Although his main focus is on hard bop music, he occasionally dabbles in soul-jazz or R.
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