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Merle Evans
Merle Evans is credited on 60 releases across 13 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2008 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
60
Pressings credited
13
Albums
6
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
Merle Slease Evans (December 26, 1891 – December 31, 1987) was an American cornet player and circus band conductor who conducted the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for fifty years. He was known as the "Toscanini of the Big Top." Evans was inducted into the American Bandmasters Association in 1947 and the International Circus Hall of Fame in 1975.
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Credited work
60 releases · 13 albums · active 1951–2008
- Performance · 70
- Other credits · 4
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Band
- Merle Evans And His All-Star Band
- Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus
- Gunther Schuller
- Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Band
- The New England Conservatory Circus Band
- Various
- The Allentown Band
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