Merle Evans
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.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
62 releases · 13 albums · active 1951–2008
- Performance · 72
- Other credits · 4
Frequent collaborators
- Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Band
- Gunther Schuller
- Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus
- Various
- The New England Conservatory Circus Band
- The Allentown Band
- Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Band
- Merle Evans And His All-Star Band