Vail Jazz Foundation
“If people had told me I’d be busking at this stage of my career in front of a fruit stand, no less I wouldn’t have believed them for a minute,” said jazz drummer Evan Sherman. But performing on a New York City sidewalk is exactly what this 2009 alumnus of the Vail Jazz Workshop has done to stay creative during the long months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sherman’s band was wrapping up a tour on March 11, preparing to head to New York to perform in a tribute concert at Lincoln Center to the late saxophonist Jimmy Heath, when the plans of entertainers everywhere came to a screeching halt. He was also to join the faculty of the Vail Jazz Workshop last summer, alongside fellow drummer Lewis Nash, and that got put on hold, too.