Vincent Herring
Encyclopedia
Vincent Herring is an American
jazz
hard bop
and post-bop
saxophonist
and flautist
.
. At age 16, he entered California State University, Chico
on a music scholarship.
A year later, Vincent auditioned for a spot in the United States Military Academy
band. He made the move to West Point, which turned out to be a steppingstone to the New York
jazz
scene.
Since first touring Europe and the United States with Lionel Hampton
's big band, Herring has worked with Nat Adderley
, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
, The Horace Silver Quintet
, Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition
, Larry Coryell
, Cedar Walton
, Freddie Hubbard
, Dizzy Gillespie
, The Mingus Big Band, Nancy Wilson
, The Roy Hargrove Big Band
, Arthur Taylor
, Dr. Billy Taylor
, Carla Bley
, Phil Woods Sax Machine
(a band augmenting Woods' regular quintet to an octet with three additional alto saxophonists). Herring has appeared as a special guest soloist with Wynton Marsalis
at Lincoln Center as well as with John Faddis and The Carnegie Hall
Big Band.
Herring has taken bands to Japan
and Europe
on several occasions and has appeared in nearly every major jazz festival in the world. He is also involved in jazz education, giving clinics throughout Europe and the United States. Herring has recorded 15 CDs as a leader and over 200 as a sideman.
He plays Yanagisawa
saxophones i.e. a gold-plated A991 alto
and gold-plated S991 soprano
. His mouthpiece on alto is a prototype of the Vandoren V16, size 5 opening with a small chamber. He plays on Alexander Superial DC reeds, size 3½.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
hard bop
Hard bop
Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz which incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano...
and post-bop
Post-bop
Post-bop is a term for a form of small-combo jazz music that evolved in the early-to-mid sixties. The genre's origins lie in seminal work by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
saxophonist
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
and flautist
Flautist
A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...
.
Biography
Herring's formal musical education began at age 11, when he started playing saxophone in school bands and studying privately at Dean Frederick's School Of Music in Vallejo, CaliforniaVallejo, California
Vallejo is the largest city in Solano County, California, United States. The population was 115,942 at the 2010 census. It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area on the northeastern shore of San Pablo Bay...
. At age 16, he entered California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico is the second-oldest campus in the twenty-three-campus California State University system. It is located in Chico, California, about ninety miles north of Sacramento...
on a music scholarship.
A year later, Vincent auditioned for a spot in the United States Military Academy
United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy at West Point is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, north of New York City...
band. He made the move to West Point, which turned out to be a steppingstone to the New York
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
scene.
Since first touring Europe and the United States with Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy...
's big band, Herring has worked with Nat Adderley
Nat Adderley
Nathaniel Adderley was an American jazz cornet and trumpet player who played in the hard bop and soul jazz genres. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley....
, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Art Blakey
Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
, The Horace Silver Quintet
Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....
, Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition
Jack DeJohnette
Jack DeJohnette is an American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer. He is one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th century, due to extensive work as leader and sideman for musicians like Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and Sonny...
, Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell is an American jazz fusion guitarist.-Biography:Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas. He graduated from Richland High School, in Richland, Washington, where he played in local bands The Jailers, The Rumblers, The Royals, and The Flames. He also played with The Checkers from nearby...
, Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an American hard bop jazz pianist.-Biography:Walton grew up in Dallas, Texas. His mother was an aspiring concert pianist, and was Walton's initial teacher. She also took him to jazz performances around Dallas...
, Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
, Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...
, The Mingus Big Band, Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson (singer)
Nancy Wilson is an American singer with more than 70 albums, and three Grammy Awards. She has been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, cabaret and pop; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer." The title she prefers, however, is song stylist...
, The Roy Hargrove Big Band
Roy Hargrove
Roy Anthony Hargrove is an American jazz trumpeter. He won worldwide notice after winning two Grammy Awards for differing types of music, in 1997, and in 2002...
, Arthur Taylor
Art Taylor
Arthur S. Taylor, Jr. was an American jazz drummer of the hard bop school.After playing in the bands of Howard McGhee, Coleman Hawkins, Buddy DeFranco, Bud Powell, and George Wallington from 1948 to 1957, he formed his own group, the Wailers...
, Dr. Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...
, Carla Bley
Carla Bley
Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
, Phil Woods Sax Machine
Phil Woods
Philip Wells Woods is an American jazz bebop alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.-Biography:...
(a band augmenting Woods' regular quintet to an octet with three additional alto saxophonists). Herring has appeared as a special guest soloist with Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
at Lincoln Center as well as with John Faddis and The Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
Big Band.
Herring has taken bands to Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
on several occasions and has appeared in nearly every major jazz festival in the world. He is also involved in jazz education, giving clinics throughout Europe and the United States. Herring has recorded 15 CDs as a leader and over 200 as a sideman.
He plays Yanagisawa
Yanagisawa Wind Instruments
Yanagisawa Wind Instruments is a Japanese woodwind company known for its range of professional grade saxophones. Along with Yamaha they are one of the leading manufacturers of saxophones in Japan....
saxophones i.e. a gold-plated A991 alto
Alto saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
and gold-plated S991 soprano
Soprano saxophone
The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
. His mouthpiece on alto is a prototype of the Vandoren V16, size 5 opening with a small chamber. He plays on Alexander Superial DC reeds, size 3½.
As leader
- 1989: American Experience
- 1989: Scene One
- 1990: Evidence (Landmark RecordsLandmark RecordsLandmark Records was an American jazz record label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews as a successor to Milestone Records. Landmark Records published albums recorded by the Kronos Quartet of music by Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk, as well as straight jazz albums...
) - 1993: Dawnbird (Landmark)
- 1993: Secret Love
- 1994: Days Of Wine & Roses MusicMaster
- 1994: Folklore:Live At The Village Vanguard MusicMaster
- 1995: Don' Let It Go MusicMaster
- 1997: Change The World
- 1999: Jobim for Lovers Musicmasters
- 2001: Simple Pleasure (Highnote RecordsHighNote RecordsHighNote Records is an American record label based in New York City, specializing in jazz music.HighNote was founded by Joe Fields, who worked for Prestige Records as an executive in the 1960s and founded Muse Records in the 1970s. He co-founded HighNote and its sister label, Savant Records, in...
) - 2003: All Too Real (Highnote)
- 2004: Mr. Wizard(Highnote)
- 2006: Ends and Means (Highnote)
- 2010: Morning Star (Challenge RecordsChallenge Records (1994)A third label Challenge Records International was founded in the Netherlands in 1994 dedicated to recordings of classical music and jazz. On of its subsidiary Retrieval is dedicated to reissues of vintage jazz now out of copyright in Europe, many transferred by remastering engineer John R.T...
)
As sideman
- Alto Legacy (P.Woods/V.Herring) Alto Summit Fantasy records
- Barney McAll Quintet Exit BME Records 4798192
- Benard Purdie's Soul To Jazz 2 ACT 9253-2
- Carl Allen Quintet w Roy Hargrove Piccadilly Square Alfa-09
- Carl Allen Quintet The Pursuer Atlantic-82572-2
- Carl Allen Quintet w Nicholas Payton Testimonial Atlantic-82755
- Cedar Walton Sextet Composer Astor Place Records 4001
- Don Braden Sextet Art Of The Saxophone BMG Records 4001
- Don Braden Sextet release late 2000 DoubleTime Records
- Donald Brown Quintet People Music Muse Records 5406
- Eddie Allen Quintet Another Point Of View Enja-8004
- Freddie Hubbard Sextet BoliviaBolivia (album)Bolivia is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded in December 1990 and January 1991 and released on the Music Master label. It features performances by Hubbard, Ralph Moore, Vincent Herring, Cedar Walton, David Williams, and Billy Higgins...
Musicmasters 5063 - Freddie Hubbard Octet MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & CannonMMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & CannonMMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded in August 1994 and January 1995 and released on the Music Master label. It features performances by Hubbard, Javon Jackson, Vincent Herring, Gary Smulyan, Stephen Scott , Peter Washington and Carl Allen...
Musicmasters 65132-2 - Gloria Lynne No Detour Ahead Muse MCD5414
- Good Fellas (Vol. 1) Paddle Wheel KICJ115
- Good Fellas (Vol. 2) Paddle Wheel KICJ166
- Good Fellas (Vol. 3) Paddle Wheel KICJ101
- Joe Chambers Quintet Mirrors Bluenote Records 724349668522
- Johannes Enders Quiet Fire Enja Records ENJ-93902
- John Hicks Quartet In The Mix Landmark Records 1542
- John Hicks Quartet Piece In My Peace Landmark Records 1545
- Johnny King In From The Cold Criss Cross Records 1093
- Kevin Hays Quintet Sweet Ear steeplechase 31282
- Lainie Kazan Body & Soul MusicMasters Records 65126
- Leon Dorsey Quintet The Watcher Landmark Records 1540
- Louis Hayes Dreamin of Cannonball TCB Records
- Louis Smith Sextet Strike Up The Band Steeplechase 31294
- Manhattan Projects Dark Side Of Dewey Alfa ALCR217
- Manhattan Projects Echoes Of Our Heroes Alfa ALCR312
- Manhattan Projects We Remember Cannonball Alfa 3029
- Marcus Roberts Portraits In Blue Sony Records 68488
- Melvin Rhyne To Cannonball Paddle Wheel KICJ147
- Mingus Big Band Que Viva Mingus Dreyfus Records
- Mingus Big Band Blues & Politics Dreyfus Records
- Mingus Big Band Tonight At Noon Dreyfus Records
- Mingus Big Band Three Of Four Shades Of Love Dreyfus Records
- Nat Adderley Quintet Live At Floating Jazz Fest Chiaroscuro334
- Nat Adderley Quintet Live At Sweet Basil Vol. 1
- Nat Adderley Quintet Live At Sweet Basil Vol. 2
- Nat Adderley Quintet Live At Sweet Basil Alfa -44
- Nat Adderley Quintet Talkin' About You Landmark 1528
- Nat Adderley Quintet The Old Country Alfa-101
- Nat Adderley Quintet We Remember Cannon In & Out-701
- Nat Adderley Quintet Workin Timeless SPJ 387
- Nat Adderley Quintet A Night In Manhattan Alfa-166
- Ron McClure Quintet Never Forget steeplechase 31279
- Scott Wendholt Quintet Scheme of Things Cross Cross 1078
- Tim Hagans & Marcus Printup Hubsongs Bluenote CDP 724385950926
- Yoichi Kobayashi Sukiyaki WNCL-2115
External links
- http://www.vincentherring.com