{"id":3984,"date":"2014-01-23T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T08:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/23\/carnival-records-founder-joe-evans-dies\/"},"modified":"2014-01-23T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T08:40:39","slug":"carnival-records-founder-joe-evans-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2014\/01\/23\/carnival-records-founder-joe-evans-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Records Founder Joe Evans Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/EvansS08-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"197\" height=\"296\" \/><br \/>Joe  Evans, well-respected musician and founder of Carnival Records, died on  Jan. 17 in Richmond, Virginia of undisclosed causes. He was 97 years  old. Evans established Carnival in 1961. Affiliated with more than 30 solo  artists and groups, the label was also home to the Manhattans, whom  Evans signed in 1964. While with Carnival, the veteran R&amp;B group  first gained national prominence with the No. 12 R&amp;B hit \u201cI Wanna Be  (Your Everything)\u201d followed by the top 20 hits \u201cSearchin\u2019 for My Baby\u201d  and \u201cFollow Your Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Carnival was the culmination of a professional career that took root  in 1939. Born Joseph James Evans on Oct. 7, 1916 in Bonifay, Florida and  raised in Pensacola, Evans moved to New York City and began honing his  skills as a multi-instrumentalist. Playing alto and baritone saxophone,  flute and clarinet, he performed in the U.S. and Europe in the \u201840s and  \u201850s with bands led by such celebrated talents as Louis Armstrong,  Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Lunceford, Cab Calloway and Thomas \u201cFats\u201d Waller.<\/p>\n<p>His credits also include playing with Charlie \u201cBird\u201d Parker and John  Coltrane plus backing such singers and groups as the Nat King Cole Trio,  Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, the Impressions, Sarah Vaughn and  Harry Belafonte. During the \u201860s, Evans was a fixture with the Motown  Revue, playing behind Stevie Wonder, the Supremes and Marvin Gaye, among  others, and also worked as a Motown studio musician.<\/p>\n<p>Retiring from music, he earned a master\u2019s of education from Rutgers  University before starting a new career as a dairy inspector for the  state of New Jersey. With Dr. Christopher Brooks, Evans co-authored his  2008 autobiography, \u201cFollow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz,  Swing and Rhythm and Blues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evans is survived by his son Thomas James and two great-grandchildren among other relatives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hitsvillesoulclubs.com\/Pretenders.gif\" border=\"0\" width=\"210\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Evans, well-respected musician and founder of Carnival Records, died on Jan. 17 in Richmond,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}