Listening to Evelyn Wright sing, it doesn’t take long to hear a complete immersion in music. Yet while her mastery of the jazz idiom might suggest otherwise, she hasn’t always been a jazz singer. She has however, always been a singer, period.
“This is all I’ve ever done,” she said at over coffee at a University Circle café earlier this fall. “I’ve never worked a day job.”
In today’s difficult jazz economy, that’s an eye-opening statement, but when Wright appears Nov. 16 with the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra Little Big Band at the Happy Days Lodge in Peninsula, she will bring a repertoire and an expertise that hearkens back to a balmier music climate, one that she was fortunate to experience before it disappeared.
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It’s practically a cliche in jazz circles: no one wants to listen to a bass solo. 
