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Vincent Veloso

bad ass musician with good teeth and good shoes

About Me

www.vincentveloso.com VINCENT VELOSO: You may have seen him on Univision, Urban Latino, Latination, Fox n Friends Morning show, at SOB's, Joe's Pub or the Main event at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2002. You probably have heard him on tenor sax and trumpet if you've ever watched the show Trading Spaces, on flute on Showtime's original movies theme or all three on MTV from time to time. Vince Veloso definitely is a hard working musician.

An NYU Music graduate , he has studied with Ted Nash, Ralph Lalama, Vincent Herring, Steve Coleman, Jerome Callet, Kenny Werner and George Garzone. “I owe a lot of my approach to the saxophone and music to my mentor, Mr. George Garzone, Maceo Parker and another great saxophonist Mr. Kenny Garrett.”. Since 1995, he has been working with many of the established rock en espanol crowd, as well as many highy respected jazz musicians, swing and funk acts.

Has worked and/or appeared with King Chango, Ozomatli, Los Pericos, Los Amigos Invisibles, Control Machete, Javier Garcia, Yerba Buena, Sidestepper, Sean Lennon, Jaron Lanier, Badawi, Frank Foster, “Alkebulan” Rodriguez, Jazz Sawyer, Kaleta, DJ Logic, DJ Spooky, DJ Olive, DJ Kenny Summit, Kembale, Pacha, Orbita, Mlumbo, Dave Stryker,George Garzone, Joe Shepley, Donald Byrd, Bryan Lynch, Bobby Sanabria, Arturo O'farrill, Sunny Jain, Victor Barrientos, Dennis Davis, Tootes and the Maytails, Nick Palumbo and the Flipped fedoras, Dean Shot and the blues Revue, Si Se, Atercielados, Avatar, The Neville Brothers, Topaz, Brenda K Starr, and many others.

Vince is also featured on an impressive number of CDs, commercial recordings and films. He is also an accomplished educator, both as a private teacher and as a former instructor at From The Top Music Studios and the Academy of music of Ramapo College where he taught winds and music theory.

Currently he has been performing with Pachamassive, Orbita, Mlumbo, Azouhnoui & the afroyorkers, Kaleta/Zozo Afrobeat, Fast Breakin Classics, ZiloGroove/Nouvelle Soul and The IslandBoysband(calypso band)

Vince is available for recording, touring and shows