Vincent Herring

Vincent Herring ( born November 19, 1964 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky ) is an American jazz saxophonist (alto, soprano) and flautist of hard bop and post-bop.

Life and work

Herring grew up in Vallejo in California, where he studied in 1980 with a scholarship at the California State University at Chico and then experience in the band of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point collected before he moved to New York in 1983, where he participated in the Long Iceland University student, was educated privately by Phil Woods and incidentally financed busking a living. 1985 to 1988 he was in the band of Lionel Hampton, 1985/6 with David Murray, 1987 Quintet by Horace Silver and Art Blakey's 1989 Jazz Messengers. He became known from 1987 to 1993 as a band member of Nat Adderley, whose brother Cannonball Adderley 's his major musical influence. He can be heard on albums Adderley's " The Old Country" (1989 ), " Work Song " (1990) and " Workin '. With his own quintet, inter alia, with pianist Cyrus Chestnut, he took in the 1990s on several albums ( at Music Masters, Landmark ), eg "Do not let it go " (1995), " Days of Wines and Roses " (1994). In 1996 he took up with Phil Woods and Antonio Hart " Alto Summit". He also played with Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Cedar Walton, Kenny Barron, Steve Turre, Roy Haynes, Abdullah Ibrahim, Billy Taylor, Nancy Wilson, Larry Coryell, Louis Smith, Don Braden, John Hicks, the Mingus Big Band ( Europe Tour 2002 ), Jack DeJohnettes Special Edition, Carla Bley, with Wynton Marsalis as a guest soloist at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall Big Band by Jon Faddis. In 2008 he plays with his band "Earth Jazz Agents" ( with pianist Anthony Wonsey, Joris Dudli on drums and bassist Richie Goods). Appeared in 2001 at High Note " Simple Pleasure " with Mulgrew Miller on piano, Wallace Roney, Richie Goods and drummer EJ Strickland and 2004 " Mr.Wizard " mostly his own compositions with the musicians, a quintet from Herring, trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, Richie Goods, Strickland and pianist Danny Grissett.

In 1988 he founded with drummer Carl Allen, who also played in his quintet, Big Apple Productions, which for various - produced partly Japanese label plates, so also taught his first albums "Scene One" in 1988 and " American Experience " 1990 Herring. at William Patterson University, Duke University, Cornell University and the Juilliard School.