Warren Vaché

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Warren Vaché Jr. (born February 21, 1951 in Rahway , New Jersey ) is an American musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn and cornet ) of swing and mainstream jazz .

Live and act

Warren Vaché comes from a musical family; his brother is the swing clarinetist Allan Vaché , his father, Warren Vaché senior , was a bassist and author of several books.

Vache Jr. took piano lessons as a child, studied trumpet in school, and took college lessons with Pee Wee Erwin and Jim Fitzpatrick . He studied at Montclare State University and at the beginning of his music career he played in Benny Goodman's band , in which he was lead trumpeter and soloist, and in the house band of the Eddie Condon's jazz club , where he played with Vic Dickenson and Bob Wilber and in his father's tape. He worked long with Scott Hamilton as a co-leader of a band and recorded his first album in 1976 under his own name ("First Time Out"). For a long time he also worked with George Wein and his Newport All Stars ; this cooperation lasted until the 1990s.

Since then he has released a number of albums with his own bands on the Concord Jazz label , from 1994 on Muse and at Nagel-Heyer , on which musicians such as Bucky Pizzarelli , Michael Moore , John Bunch , Jimmy Cobb and Jake Hanna participated. Vaché also played with the Concord All Stars , Howard Alden, Kenny Baker , Dan Barrett , Buddy Tate , Woody Herman , Buck Clayton , Gerry Mulligan and accompanied Rosemary Clooney .

Vaché Jr. is heavily influenced by Louis Armstrong and musicians as diverse as Ruby Braff , Pee Wee Erwin, Roy Eldridge , Bobby Hackett , Clifford Brown , Blue Mitchell and Billy Butterfield . Warren Vaché does not see himself as an innovator, but as a guardian of the traditions of various varieties of jazz such as mainstream , swing, and occasionally also bebop or hardbop . Martin Kunzler counts Vaché “with his clean, dark, yet radiant tone and natural vibrato” as one of the innovators of swing; Vaché explains his preference with “mainstream swimming against the current” as follows: “I just like to play beautiful pieces and create my own variations”. Digby Fairweather praises Vaché's ability to play in the highest registers at the lowest volume. Richard Cook and Brian Morton highlight the album 2gether , recorded in 2000 with pianist Bill Charlap , among his numerous albums .

In 1985 Warren Vaché played a leading role in the feature film Six Jazzers in Three Time ( The Gig ; directed by Frank Gilroy).

Trivia

Vaché trained Richard Gere for his role in the film Cotton Club .

Discographic notes

As a band leader

With Ruby Braff

  • First Set (Zephyr, 1996)

With bucky pizzarelli

With George Wein

  • Wein, Women and Song and More, George Wein Plays and Sings ( Arbors Records )

With John Allred

  • Live at Marians Jazzroom ( Arbors Records )
  • The Warren Vaché / John Allred Quintet: Top Shelf (Arbors, 2011)

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literature

annotation

  1. ↑ The album contains pieces in a quintet line-up with Kenny Davern and duos with the guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli.
  2. ↑ cit. after M. Kunzler, p. 1211.
  3. ↑ Cook and Morton rated the album in the Penguin Guide to Jazz with the highest mark with crown and praise the "finesse, the lustful joy of playing, the charm of this recording", and count it as one of the great albums of the CD era.
personal data
SURNAME Vaché, Warren
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vaché, Warren junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and cornet player
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Rahway , New Jersey