Richard Evans has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 36 episodes and was first played on 2 August 2014.

Real Name: Richard Lee Cowan Evans

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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