Artist description Great variety with emphasis on jazz and classics. Band performs traditional Kansas City style jazz with a touch of class and elegance! Candace performs mainly as a trio or quartet including piano/vocals, bass, drums, and guitar or saxaphone. The band is generally high energy but just as adept at handling the sensitive ballads.

Music Style Jazz

Musical Influences Gershwin, Porter, Nat King Cole

Similar Artists Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Diana Krall

Artist History Candace Evans, pianist and vocalist performs regularly at various Kansas City area venues. She is often joined by The Candace Evans Trio or quartet. Her group has been playing at the top jazz clubs in Kansas City and the surrounding region for the past ten years and has developed a loyal and enthusiastic following.

Group Members Candace Evans - lead pianist and vocalist. Ricky Anderson - acoustic and electric bass. Gary Via - drums. Rod Fleeman - guitars.

Instruments pianist/vocalist

Albums "Interpretations"

Press Reviews Kansas City Star-Candace Evans shows her wide range in this pleasing self-produced album. She manages to inject blues into "Cry Me a River," Country in Hank William's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," and Beatles into "Here, There and Everywhere" and still maintain a true jazz sound. Recommended. Jazz Ambassador Magazine- "Interpretations" is an impressive first effort that will please her following and certainly add to it. Evans' singing suggests sincerity and vulnerability in ballads such as "Cry Me A River" and "It Never Entered My Mind" and imparts a spirit of imaginative playfulness in "We Kiss In a Shadow" and "Fly Me To the Moon."

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Location Kansas City, MO - USA

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