Vincent Dwayne Herring (born November 19, 1964) is an American
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
saxophonist, flautist, composer, and educator. Known for his fiery and soulful playing in the bands of
Horace Silver
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sch ...
,
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. He played bebop, hard bop, and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives fo ...
, and
Nat Adderley
Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was the younger brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, whom he supported and played with for many years.
Adderley's composition " ...
in the earlier stages of his career, he now frequently performs around the world with his own groups and is heavily involved in jazz education.
Biography
He was born in
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Hopkinsville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Christian County, Kentucky, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 31,577.
History
Early years
The area of present-day Hopkinsville was initially claimed in 1796 b ...
, United States. His parents divorced, and he and his mother moved to California. When he was 11, he started playing saxophone in school bands and studying privately at Dean Frederick's School of Music in
Vallejo, California
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. At age 16, he entered
California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico, or commonly, Chico State, is a public university in Chico, California. Founded in 1887, it is the second oldest campus in the California State University system. As of the fall 2020 semester, the university had ...
West Point
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and served one enlisted tour. In 1982 he moved to New York City attending
Long Island University
Long Island University (LIU) is a private university with two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It offers more than 500 academic programs at its main campuses, online, and at multiple non-residential. LIU ...
.
Herring first toured the United States and Europe as part of the
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles M ...
Big Band. His talents came to the attention of Nat Adderley, and the two forged a nine-year musical relationship that led to nine albums and touring around the world year after year. After Adderley's death, Herring collaborated with former
Cannonball Adderley
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", whi ...
bandmember
Louis Hayes
Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer and band leader. He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for more than three years. Since 1989 he has led his own band, and together with Vincent Herring formed the Cannonball Legacy Band. He i ...
to form the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band. He also worked and recorded with pianist
Cedar Walton
Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and com ...
for over two decades. He has also appeared on stage or recordings with
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge but addi ...
The New York City Jazz Record
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
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Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell (born Lorenz Albert Van DeLinder III; April 2, 1943 – February 19, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist.
Early life
Larry Coryell was born in Galveston, Texas, United States. He never knew his biological father, a musician. He w ...
,
Steve Turre
Stephen Johnson Turre (born September 12, 1948, in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer of using Conch (instrument), seashells as instruments, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. For ...
, the
Mingus Big Band
The Mingus Big Band is a 14-piece ensemble, based in New York City, that specializes in the compositions of Charles Mingus. It was managed by his widow, Sue Mingus, along with the Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty. In addition to its weekly Monda ...
,
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) 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 from 1994 was the ...
Kenny Barron
Kenny Barron (born June 9, 1943) is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.
Biography
Born in Philadel ...
,
Roy Hargrove
Roy Anthony Hargrove (October 16, 1969 – November 2, 2018) was an American jazz musician and composer whose principal instruments were the trumpet and flugelhorn. He achieved worldwide acclaim after winning two Grammy Awards for differing styles ...
Carla Bley
Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera '' Escalator over the Hill'' ...
,
Mike LeDonne
Michael Arthur LeDonne (born October 26, 1956) is a jazz pianist and organist known for post-bop and hard bop. He has worked with Benny Golson since 1996 and performs under his own name all over the world.
Early life
LeDonne was born in Bridgepo ...
Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney (May 25, 1960 – March 31, 2020) was an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter. He has won 1 Grammy award and has two nominations.
Roney took lessons from Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie and studied with Miles Davis from ...
Bobby Watson
Robert Michael Watson Jr. (born August 23, 1953), known professionally as Bobby Watson, is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator.
Music career
Watson was born in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He ...
,
Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards.
Biography
Bartz studied at the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Works ...
,
Sonny Fortune
Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune (May 19, 1939 – October 25, 2018) was an American jazz saxophonist. Fortune played soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones, clarinet, and flute.
Biography
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United Stat ...
,
Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut (born January 17, 1963) is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer. In 2006, Josh Tyrangiel, music critic for ''Time'', wrote: "What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes ...
,
Jeremy Pelt
Jeremy Pelt (born November 4, 1976, in California) is an American jazz trumpeter.
Career
Pelt studied classical trumpet as a child and focused on jazz after playing in a high school jazz ensemble. He studied at Berklee College of Music. Among th ...
,
Joe Farnsworth
Joseph Allen Farnsworth (born February 21, 1968, Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer.
Farnsworth was one of five sons born to trumpeter and bandleader Roger Farnsworth; one of the brothers played saxophone in Ray Charles
Ra ...
, and the 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
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awar ...
at
Lincoln Center
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as well as with
Jon Faddis
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and The
Carnegie Hall
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Big Band.
Herring has recorded over 20 albums as a leader and over 250 as a sideman. In addition to the Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band, Herring's other projects include The Vincent Herring-Joris Dudli's Soul Jazz Alliance, Earth Jazz Agents, Friendly Fire with Vincent Herring and Eric Alexander, and Jazz The Story.
Herring has taken bands to Japan, Europe, and China on several occasions and has appeared in nearly every major jazz festival in the world. He is also involved in jazz education as a professor at
William Paterson University
William Paterson University, officially William Paterson University of New Jersey (WPUNJ), is a public university in Wayne, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education.
Founded in 1855 and was named after American ju ...
and
Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory in New York City. The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition, as well as a bachelor's in mu ...
Scene One
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The site was accessible via the public internet and within the Walled garden (media), walled garden of the Telewest and C ...
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Evidence
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In epistemology, evidenc ...
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* 1990: ''
Evidence
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In epistemology, evidenc ...
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Landmark
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In modern use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures or f ...
)
* 1993: ''
Dawnbird
''Dawnbird'' is an album by saxophonist Vincent Herring which was released on Orrin Keepnews' Landmark label in 1993.Folklore: Live at the Village Vanguard'' (MusicMasters)
* 1994: ''Days of Wine & Roses'' (MusicMasters)
* 1995: ''Don' Let It Go'' (MusicMasters)
* 1997: ''Change the World'' (MusicMasters)
* 1999: ''Jobim for Lovers'' (MusicMasters)
* 2001: ''
Simple Pleasure
''Simple Pleasure'' is the fourth studio album by Tindersticks. It was released in 1999 on Island Records. The album marked a major departure for the band, as it began to adapt more soul and jazz influences than on their previous recordings.
Th ...
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HighNote
HighNote Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Joe Fields with his son, Barney Fields, in 1997.
Joe Fields worked for Prestige Records in the 1960s, and in the 1970s founded Muse Records. After he sold Muse, he started the Highn ...
)
* 2001: ''Burn'in The Blues'' (Consolidated Artists Productions) with Jeff Palmer, John Abercrombie, Bob Leto
* 2003: '' All Too Real'' (HighNote)
* 2004: ''
Mr. Wizard
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'' (HighNote)
* 2005: '' The Battle: Live at Smoke'' (HighNote)
* 2006: '' Ends and Means'' (HighNote)
* 2007: ''Live at Smoke'' (SGM)
* 2010: ''Morning Star'' (
Challenge
Challenge may refer to:
* Voter challenging or caging, a method of challenging the registration status of voters
* Euphemism for disability
* Peremptory challenge, a dismissal of potential jurors from jury duty
Places
Geography
*Challenge, C ...
)
* 2011: ''Friendly Fire: Live at Smoke'' (HighNote)
* 2012: ''In The Spirit of Coltrane and Cannonball'' (Yanagisawa)
* 2013: ''The Uptown Shuffle'' ( Smoke Sessions)
* 2015: ''Night and Day'' (Smoke Sessions)
* 2017: ''Hard Times'' (Smoke Sessions)
* 2019: ''Bird at 100'' (Smoke Sessions)
* 2021: ''Preaching to the Choir'' (Smoke Sessions)
As sideman
* Alto Legacy ''Alto Summit'' w/Phil Woods (
Fantasy
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)
* Barney McAll Quintet ''Exit'' (BME)
* Benard Purdie's ''Soul To Jazz 2'' ( ACT)
* Carl Allen Quintet ''The Pursuer'' (
Atlantic
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)
* Carl Allen Quintet w/Nicholas Payton ''Testimonial'' (Atlantic)
* Carl Allen Quintet w/Roy Hargrove ''Piccadilly Square'' ( Alfa)
* Cedar Walton ''
Composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
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Astor Place
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, 1996)
* Cedar Walton ''
One Flight Down
''One Flight Down'' is an album by pianist Cedar Walton which was recorded in 2006 and released on the Highnote label.HighNote
HighNote Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Joe Fields with his son, Barney Fields, in 1997.
Joe Fields worked for Prestige Records in the 1960s, and in the 1970s founded Muse Records. After he sold Muse, he started the Highn ...
, 2006)
* Cedar Walton ''
Seasoned Wood
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'' (HighNote, 2008)
* Cedar Walton '' The Bouncer'' (HighNote, 2011)
* Cedar Walton ''
The Promise Land
''The Promise Land'' is an album by pianist Cedar Walton which was recorded in 2001 and released on the Highnote label.
Reception
Allmusic reviewed the album stating "Top-notch hard bop is performed by pianist Cedar Walton's quartet... Easily re ...
'' (HighNote, 2001)
* Cedar Walton '' Voices Deep Within'' (HighNote, 2009)
* Don Braden Sextet ''Art of the Saxophone'' (
BMG BMG may refer to:
Organizations
* Music publishing companies:
** Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008
*** Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that wa ...
)
* Don Braden Sextet (
Double-Time
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, 2000)
* Donald Brown Quintet ''
People Music
''People Music'' is a studio album by American jazz bassist Christian McBride together with his band Inside Straight. The record was released on via the Mack Avenue label.
Background
''People Music'' is the second album for McBride's band Insi ...
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Muse
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)
* Eddie Allen Quintet ''Another Point of View'' (
Enja
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The label's first release was by Mal Waldron, and early releases included European and Ja ...
Bolivia
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Mabern Plays Mabern
''Mabern Plays Mabern'' is an album by pianist Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 2018 and released by Smoke Sessions Records.
Recording and music
The sextet contained Harold Mabern (piano), Eric Alexander (tenor sax), Vincent Herring (alto sax), ...
'' (Smoke Sessions)
* Harold Mabern ''Mabern Plays Coltrane'' (Smoke Sessions)
* Joe Chambers Quintet ''Mirrors'' (
Blue Note
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)
* Johannes Enders ''Quiet Fire'' (Enja)
* John Hicks '' In the Mix'' (
Landmark
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In modern use, the term can also be applied to smaller structures or f ...
)
* John Hicks ''
Piece for My Peace
''Piece for My Peace'' is an album by pianist John Hicks, recorded in 1995.
Recording and music
The album was recorded at EastSide Sound, New York City, on August 8, 1995.
'' (Landmark)
* Johnny King ''In From the Cold'' ( Criss Cross)
* Kevin Hays Quintet ''Sweet Ear'' (SteepleChase)
* Lainie Kazan ''Body & Soul'' (Musicmasters)
* Leon Dorsey Quintet ''The Watcher'' (Landmark)
* Louis Hayes ''Dreamin of Cannonball'' (TCB)
* Louis Smith Sextet ''Strike Up the Band'' (
SteepleChase
Steeplechase may refer to:
* Steeplechase (horse racing), a type of horse race in which participants are required to jump over obstacles
* Steeplechase (athletics), an event in athletics that derives its name from the steeplechase in horse racing ...
)
* Manhattan Projects ''Dark Side of Dewey'' (Alfa)
* Manhattan Projects ''Echoes of Our Heroes'' (Alfa
* Manhattan Projects ''We Remember Cannonball'' (Alfa)
* Marcus Roberts ''Portraits in Blue'' (Sony)
* Melvin Rhyne ''To Cannonball'' (Paddle Wheel)
* Mingus Big Band ''Blues & Politics'' ( Dreyfus)
* Mingus Big Band ''Que Viva Mingus'' (Dreyfus)
* Mingus Big Band ''Three of Four Shades of Love'' (Dreyfus)
* Mingus Big Band ''Tonight at Noon'' (Dreyfus)
* Nat Adderley Quintet ''A Night in Manhattan'' (Alfa)
* Nat Adderley Quintet ''Live at Floating Jazz Fest'' (
Chiaroscuro
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991
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Events
* March 1: In Rouen, Pope John XV ratifies the first Peace and Truce of God, Truce of God, between ...
993
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Events
By place
Europe
* Spring – The 12-year-old King Otto III gives the Sword of Saints Cosmas and Damian ...
The Old Country
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Cast
* Gerald McCarthy – James Fountain
* Kathleen Vaughan – Mary Lorimer
* Haidee Wri ...
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* Nat Adderley Quintet ''Workin'' (
Timeless
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* Akal (Sikh term), timelessness in Sikhism
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* Immo ...
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* Ron McClure Quintet ''Never Forget'' (SteepleChase)
* Scott Wendholt Quintet ''Scheme of Things'' (Criss Cross)
* Steve Turre ''
The Spirits Up Above
''The Spirits Up Above'' is an album by trombonist Steve Turre recorded in 2004 and released on the HighNote label.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow said "Trombonist Steve Turre pays tribute to his former employer, the remarkable mul ...
'' (HighNote, 2004)
* Tim Hagans & Marcus Printup ''Hubsongs'' (Blue Note)
* Yoichi Kobayashi ''Sukiyaki''