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Richard Evans

real name Richard Lee Cowan Evans

Richard Evans is credited on 2,279 releases across 547 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,279

Credits

547

Albums

8

Decades active

230

In collections

Biography

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U.S. bassist, composer, arranger and producer. Born on December 30, 1932 in Birmingham, Alabama. Died on October 5, 2014 in Natick, Massachusetts.
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 a bassist and arranger with artists such as Natalie Cole, Peabo Bryson, and Ahmad Jamal. Served as a music professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for more than two decades. Richard Evans for a brief period in the late 50s was a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra, playing on the early Ra album Jazz By Sun Ra Vol. 1.

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Credited work

2,279 releases · 547 albums · active 1957–2026

  • Performance · 3,319
  • Production · 702
  • Other credits · 145
  • Engineering · 16

Studios: Ter Mar Studios · Universal Recording Studio · P.S. Recording Studios · A&R Studios

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