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Vinnie Zummo
Former Joe Jackson guitarist, producer,writer, arranger, sound design, custom hip-hop drum.loops, accordion, & chromatic harmonica. Currently, top call session player, producer, and composer in the NYC area. Latest Projects: 1.Vinnie’s new highly eclectic album Swinging Guitar Sounds of Young America. Can be ordered at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/zummo2 2.A Retro Cool Bossa Nova Christmas with Vinnie Zummo: A smooth, cool, retro Bossa Nova Christmas album with a lot of jazz guitar. Can be ordered at: www.cdbaby.comwww.cdbaby.com 3. So To Bed …So To Rise: A jazz CD by The Vinnie Zummo Quartet featuring Janice Zummo. Sophisticated jazz arrangements of children’s classics featuring Janice Zummo’s silky vocals and Vinnie’s soloing. (Can be ordered by calling: (212) 961-1713 or at [email protected] ) 4. Droppin Like It’s..Sample CD.Hip-hop drum loops & construction kits for Zero-G . Vinnie produced and constructed all of the loops. 5. Kocktail Kollection Authentic Lounge loopz from the 60’s. Over 1. 3 GB’s of greasy, spring reverb laden pieces, steel guitars, cheesy mono synths, vocal lix, guitar “chicks”, jazz guitar octaves, live & machine drumz, lo fi breakz,simulated old lounge record excerpts and hitz, make this a true trip into the oily, lounge lizard, musical past. 6. N.Y.Cutz: Hip-hop drum loops & construction kit CD available for Zero- G/East West in music stores all over the world. Vinnie produced the CD and constructed all of the loops. N.Y. Cutz was awarded the coveted Platinum Award by Future music UK and a Key Buy award by Keyboard magazine in it’s rave review of the CD. 7. N.Y. Cutz Vol.2 Off Da Hook The second CD in the N.Y. Cutz series and one of Zero G’s top sellers. It’s filled with over 1,500 phat beats, vintage keys, wak guitars, skrachin, old skool vocal lix, hi & lo fi live drums, and much more. 8. Shawn Pelton & Vinnie Zummo Escape From The Planet Of The Breaks Sample CD for Zero-G. Steaming, live drum loops featuring Shawn’s burning NYC groove in every kind of live drum setting plus guitars, clavinet, etc…. EQ Magazine did a six page article on Vinnie and the making of this CD in the July 2002 issue. 9. Nu Jointz, N.Y. Cutz Vol.3 A slammin’ collection of cutting edge hip hop beats. 10. Akoustik Bass Hitz Sample CD for Zero G. Jazz great Chip Jackson in a variety of groovez featuring Chip’s bass with matching drum loopz by Vinnie.Jazz, Hip Hop, Rock-A-Billy, Reggae, Ska, Metal, etc…It’s all here and every track features a full rhythm section with trax split out.
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Vinnie Zummo: Jazz and Pop Tale Daze
by Mark Sullivan
Vinnie Zummo is best known for his guitar playing with singer & songwriter Joe Jackson. He appeared on every Jackson album from Body and Soul (A&M, 1984), through Blaze of Glory (A&M, 1989), returning for The Duke (Razor & Tie Recordings, 2012). He also has a long history of mostly one-man-band recordings on his own Vaz Music label, on which he plays guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, and chromatic harmonica (as well as vocals) at a high level. His long experience ...
read moreVinnie Zummo: The Coyote
by Mark Sullivan
Guitarist Vinnie Zummo is best known for his long association with singer/songwriter Joe Jackson. He appeared on every Jackson album from Body and Soul (A&M, 1984) through Blaze of Glory (A&M, 1989), returning for The Duke (Razor & Tie Recordings, 2012). The Coyote is mostly original compositions (several of them new arrangements of tunes from earlier Zummo albums), and it's bebop all the way...although his old boss does make a guest appearance. The core sound comes from Zummo's guitar with ...
read moreVinnie Zummo Trio at the Daniels Pavilion at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts Naples Florida April 18th & 19th
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All About Jazz
TWO NIGHTS OF JAZZ PLUS ALL KINDS OF MUSICAL SURPRISES WITH FORMER JOE JACKSON GUITARIST VINNIE ZUMMO! Straight from a smash engagement at New York City's famed Blue Note Club... The Vinnie Zummo TRIO in concert at the Daniels Pavilion at the Philharmonic Center for The Arts Naples Florida April 18th. & 19th Two shows per night: 6 and 8:30 The Vinnie Zummo Trio with Chip Jackson: Bass Ray Marchica: Drums
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"A cool minty fresh zephyr wafted through my CD player when Vinnie Zummo's CD started to spin. It turned into a blue sky spring day and in my backyard it sounded like The Ventures meet Steinberger at a party that Chet was throwing for the Beatles. A very nice CD, congrats!" Steve Vai, guitar virtuoso "There's something sort of touching about how many songs are obvious tributes to specific people . . . and also how there is no obvious connection between them (Earth Wind and Fire and Les Paul?!) In the end it kind of makes me chuckle. It comes across very much as a musician doing something from the heart rather than thinking like an A&R man