Word: evan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collectors finally located Bunk in New Iberia, Louisiana. He was slight and dark with snow white hair, well into his sixties by then. Did he play anymore? No, haven't touched a horn in ten years. Did he have a horn? Nope. My horn got wrecked the night Evan Thomas was murdered on the bandstand in 1932, and I haven't played since then. Could he play again? No teeth. No horn...
George looked up suddenly. "Hear him? I was playin' with Bunk the night Evan Thomas got killed. That was the last job Bunk ever played until we made those records," George paused and gazed at the ceiling for a minute or so. The years were peeling back in his memory as he went back to a scene that took place more than 30 years ago. It was as vivid to him then as the night it happened. "It was during the depression. Let me see, it was nineteen and thirty . . . two. I was workin' with Evan Thomas in Crowley, Louisiana...
...Didn't Evan Thomas play trumpet, too?" I asked...
...Yeah. We took Bunk on as a second trumpet. He and Evan started soundin' real nice together--man, we had us a band then. Well, about two nights before Thanksgivin', we was up on the bandstand, and this fella name of John Gilbey come runnin' into the dance hall with a butcher knife. Said Evan been messin' around with his wife. Evan didn't have no time to run, so he grabbed me by the shoulders and ducked down behind me." George raised his eyebrows and smiled his ironic smile, "Man I thought I was finished then. That man reached...
...champagne glasses were filled and refilled the evening of May 27 in the Fogg courtyard. Thomas Hoving had a previous engagement, but Evan Turner of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Thomas Messer of the Guggenheim were here, and so were Perry Rathbone of the BFMA and Charles Buckley of the City Art Museum of St. Louis. A dance band played, but most of the black-tie crowd preferred just to chat, drifting at times through the first floor galleries which had been set aside for "Purchases of Two Decades"--an exhibit honoring John Coolidge '35, resigning as director...