Jack Evans (musician)
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Jack Evans is an American
musician and songwriter
.
Evans, a 1978 graduate of Boston
's Berklee College of Music
with a Bachelor of Music Composition Degree, went on to form the award-winning band Reverend Zen
. The New York band's first album was Angels, Blues, and the Crying Moon on Blakjak Music Records, Anamosa Songs ASCAP c2006. He's won seventy songwriting and performance awards with Reverend Zen around the world including 2011/12 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2010/11 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2010 Semi Finalist UK Song Contest - London, UK, 2009/10 Artist of the Year Nomination & 2009/10 Song of the Year Nomination with 9 Finalist Awards ABC Radio Networks Fame Games Effigy Awards - Costa del Sol Spain / N.Y.C., 2009/10 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2009 Semi Finalist UK Song Contest - London, UK, 2009 Semi Finalist Australia Song Contest - Sydney, Australia, 2008/09 Artist of the Year Nomination and 7 Finalist Awards ABC Radio Networks Fame Games Effigy Awards - Costa del Sol, Spain
/ N.Y.C., 2008/09 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2 Finalist Awards 2008/09 Unisong International Song Contest
- Los Angeles, 2008 Best Song Nomination Los Angeles Music Awards - Los Angeles
, 2008 Best Song Nomination Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards - Toronto
, Canada, 2008 Finalist with 3 Semi Finalist Awards France's 100% Song Contest - Arville / Paris
, France
, 3 Semi Finalist Awards 2008 UK Song Contest - London
, UK, 2008 Semi Finalist Award Australia Song Contest - Sydney, Australia
, 2008 Golden Wave Artist of the Year Award - The Colorado
Wave - Indie Music Wave shows I Radio LA - Denver/Los Angeles
, 2007/08 Song of the Year & 2007/08 Artist of the Year Nominee with 5 Finalist Awards ABC Radio Networks Fame Games Effigy Awards - Costa del Sol, Spain
/ N.Y.C., 2007/08 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2007 Artist of the Year with 4 Best Song Nominations Los Angeles
Music Awards, 2007 Artist of the Year WCH Radio - St. Louis, 2 Finalist Awards 2007/08 Unisong International Song Contest - L.A., 2006 Bronze Artist Award RGW Radio - Norfolk, U.K., 2006 Finalist VH1 Song of the Year Contest with 5 Runner Up Awards - Houston/N.Y.C., as well as multiple awards from the Billboard World Song Contest - N.Y.C., the Mid Atlantic Song Contest - Washington, DC and the Singer/Songwriter Awards in London
, U.K.
of Reverend Zen, and put together the band with over 10 other musicians. Some of those musicians have performed with Bruce Springsteen
, Sting, Stevie Wonder
, Eric Clapton
, Annie Lennox
, Elvis Costello
, Shawn Colvin
, Donald Fagen
, John Scofield
, B.B. King, David Sanborn
, Sheryl Crow
, Aretha Franklin
, John Mayer
, Joni Mitchell
, Albert Collins
, Michael Jackson
. Evans and Reverend Zen also appear on the compilation releases "Fresh Produce 4" c2007 from MVY Radio - Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod, Ma.,Newport, R.I., "Music For Coffee Beings" c2007 from RPW Records - British Columbia, Canada, "Songwriters & Storytellers" c2007 from Indie Artist Alliance - Castro Valley, Ca., "Just Talents" c2007 from Research Music - Miami, Fla., Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Berlin, Germany.
United States
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musician and songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
.
Evans, a 1978 graduate of Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
's Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...
with a Bachelor of Music Composition Degree, went on to form the award-winning band Reverend Zen
Reverend Zen
Reverend Zen is a New York rock/r&b/jazz group that debuted in 2006 with their album, Angels, Blues & the Crying Moon. Blakjak Music Records / Anamosa Songs ASCAP.The band was formed by Jack Evans, and he is the group's lead singer and drummer....
. The New York band's first album was Angels, Blues, and the Crying Moon on Blakjak Music Records, Anamosa Songs ASCAP c2006. He's won seventy songwriting and performance awards with Reverend Zen around the world including 2011/12 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2010/11 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2010 Semi Finalist UK Song Contest - London, UK, 2009/10 Artist of the Year Nomination & 2009/10 Song of the Year Nomination with 9 Finalist Awards ABC Radio Networks Fame Games Effigy Awards - Costa del Sol Spain / N.Y.C., 2009/10 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2009 Semi Finalist UK Song Contest - London, UK, 2009 Semi Finalist Australia Song Contest - Sydney, Australia, 2008/09 Artist of the Year Nomination and 7 Finalist Awards ABC Radio Networks Fame Games Effigy Awards - Costa del Sol, Spain
Spain
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/ N.Y.C., 2008/09 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2 Finalist Awards 2008/09 Unisong International Song Contest
Unisong International Song Contest
The Unisong International Songwriting Contest is the oldest international songwriting competition, that is for and judged by songwriters.Unisong International Song Contest was founded in 1996 by songwriter Alan Roy Scott , publisher David Stark and songwriter/promoter Brett Perkins .Unisong is...
- Los Angeles, 2008 Best Song Nomination Los Angeles Music Awards - Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, 2008 Best Song Nomination Toronto Exclusive Magazine Awards - Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Canada, 2008 Finalist with 3 Semi Finalist Awards France's 100% Song Contest - Arville / Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, France
France
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, 3 Semi Finalist Awards 2008 UK Song Contest - London
London
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, UK, 2008 Semi Finalist Award Australia Song Contest - Sydney, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, 2008 Golden Wave Artist of the Year Award - The Colorado
Colorado
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Wave - Indie Music Wave shows I Radio LA - Denver/Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, 2007/08 Song of the Year & 2007/08 Artist of the Year Nominee with 5 Finalist Awards ABC Radio Networks Fame Games Effigy Awards - Costa del Sol, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
/ N.Y.C., 2007/08 ASCAP Plus Award - N.Y.C., 2007 Artist of the Year with 4 Best Song Nominations Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
Music Awards, 2007 Artist of the Year WCH Radio - St. Louis, 2 Finalist Awards 2007/08 Unisong International Song Contest - L.A., 2006 Bronze Artist Award RGW Radio - Norfolk, U.K., 2006 Finalist VH1 Song of the Year Contest with 5 Runner Up Awards - Houston/N.Y.C., as well as multiple awards from the Billboard World Song Contest - N.Y.C., the Mid Atlantic Song Contest - Washington, DC and the Singer/Songwriter Awards in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, U.K.
Involvement in Reverend Zen
Evans is the lead singer and drummerDrummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
of Reverend Zen, and put together the band with over 10 other musicians. Some of those musicians have performed with Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
, Sting, Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
, Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
, Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
, Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
, Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin is an American singer-songwriter and musician.-Childhood and early career:Colvin was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. Her formative years were spent in the town of Carbondale, Illinois, where she attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She learned to play guitar at the age...
, Donald Fagen
Donald Fagen
Donald Jay Fagen is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the rock band Steely Dan ....
, John Scofield
John Scofield
John Scofield , often referred to as "Sco," is an American jazz guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham,...
, B.B. King, David Sanborn
David Sanborn
David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...
, Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country and pop...
, Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
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, John Mayer
John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer is an American pop rock and blues rock musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He moved to Atlanta in 1997, where he refined his...
, Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
, Albert Collins
Albert Collins
Albert Collins was an American electric blues guitarist and singer whose recording career began in the 1960s in Houston and whose fame eventually took him to stages across the US, Europe, Japan and Australia...
, Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
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. Evans and Reverend Zen also appear on the compilation releases "Fresh Produce 4" c2007 from MVY Radio - Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Cape Cod, Ma.,Newport, R.I., "Music For Coffee Beings" c2007 from RPW Records - British Columbia, Canada, "Songwriters & Storytellers" c2007 from Indie Artist Alliance - Castro Valley, Ca., "Just Talents" c2007 from Research Music - Miami, Fla., Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Berlin, Germany.