Bill Evans (8)

Minnesota-based trombonist and bassist. Died September 10, 2019 at the age of 83. In the 1950s he was a founding member of the Hall Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band. He was a partial owner of the Emporium of Jazz in Mendota, Minnesota. Evans spent seven years in the 1980s as bassist with the Butch Thompson Trio, the house band for the Prairie Home Companion radio program. From the late ’80s on he led his Bill Evans New Orleans Jazz Band. In addition to his own band, he spent later years as trombonist for The Pig’s Eye Jass Band.