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Warren Vache

Vaché is a supremely accomplished, versatile and rare performer. He has been astounding audiences worldwide for decades with his superb cornet, trumpet and flugelhorn stylings. Through live performances and recordings, along with stage, screen, radio and television appearances, Warren conveys incredible warmth through his burnished tone and intelligent improvisations. He has performed and recorded with such luminaries as: Benny Goodman, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Carter, Hank Jones, Gerry Mulligan, Woody Herman, Ruby Braff and Bobby Short to name but a few. He can also be found in the company of such leading contemporaries as: Phil Woods, Jon Faddis, Terrell Stafford, Howard Alden, Jessie Davis, Alvin Queen, Brian Lemon, Tony Coe, Alan Barnes, Richard Wyands, Bill Charlap, Harry Allen, John Allred and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra...the list is a virtual "Who's who" in Jazz, spanning every style in the history of the music. Warren Vaché has performed at every major jazz venue and festival throughout the globe from club dates at Condon's and the Blue Note to the Newport Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival and Perugia in Italy, including concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Vienna Opera, and the Royal Festival Hall in London. Coupling a beautiful tone with a chance-taking style, Warren utilizes the complete range of the jazz vocabulary. His influences include: Louis Armstrong, Ruby Braff, "Pee Wee" Erwin ( with whom he studied for many years ), Roy Eldridge, Bobby Hackett, Clifford Brown, Blue Mitchell, and Billy Butterfield - from this group of extraordinary musicians, among others, Mr. Vaché has coalesced his own inimitable style that defies categorization. Pianist and composer Jim McNeely was heard to say: "Every chorus he plays is like a lesson in the history of the trumpet." A guest artist on countless record dates, Mr. Vaché has recorded over 35 albums under his own name including the award winning "2gether" with Bill Charlap (Nagel-Heyer) and many other highly acclaimed albums such as: "Polished Brass"; "Easy Going"; "Warm Evenings"; with the Beaux-Arts String Quartet ( Concord ); "Horn of Plenty" ( Muse ); "An Affair to Remember"; "The Best Thing For You" ) Zephyr ); "Mrs. Vaché's Boys" ( with Allan Vaché ); "Warren Plays Warren" ( with Randy Sandke ); "What Is There To Say" ( with Joe Puma ); "Swingtime" with the NYC big band (Nagel-Heyer ); "Dream Dancing" (Arbors); and his latest "Don't Look Back" with the Scottish Ensemble (Arbors).

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Album Review

The Harry Allen Orchestra: With Roses

Read "With Roses" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Harry Allen is a tenor saxophonist's tenor saxophonist with an elegant tone and swinging style in the manner of Scott Hamilton, Lester Young or Ben Webster. He has a well-rounded discography of over 70 releases as a leader and many others as a sideman. Over the course of his prolific career, Allen has appeared with the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, James Taylor and guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli and John Pizzarelli. In this release, With Roses, Allen applies his considerable ...

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The Vaché Brothers Quintet At The Jazz Corner

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Allan and Warren Vache' Quintet The Jazz Corner Hilton Head, SC March 1-2, 2019 Brothers, Allan Vache' and Warren Vache', brought their quintet, their dry wit and, their brotherly banter to The Jazz Corner for their annual visit. Allan played clarinet in the style and with an attack reminiscent of early Benny Goodman, with whom he played as their careers briefly overlapped. Allan reached up for pure, clear notes on clarinet, which he hit and ...

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Warren Vache Quintet: Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter

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There's lots of life to this recording. Veteran trumpeter Warren Vache knows a thing or two about an old friend, mentor Benny Carter. With The Warren Vache Quintet Remembers Benny Carter we take a step back in time even as we venture forth into the present. A present that finds cornetist Vache's style and personage slightly at odds with that goofy-looking guy with the lid shaking hands with Carter for the cover of this release. It's a remarkable transformation for ...

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Maud Hixson: Don't Let A Good Thing Get Away

Read "Don't Let A Good Thing Get Away" reviewed by David Bittinger


This collection of songs by veteran composer Michael Leonard has deep roots but contemporary character. It was laid down in New York's legendary Nola Recording Studio, whose clients have included Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. The outstanding instrumentalists--cornetist Warren Vache, bassist Steve LaSpina, guitarist Gene Bertoncini, and pianist/arranger Tex Arnold--have worked with such luminaries as Benny Goodman and Stan Getz.In 2008, Twin Cities-based vocalist and music researcher Maud Hixson, working with Arnold, began reviewing the prolific work of ...

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Warren Vache: Jubilation: Live in Bern Switzerland at Marians Jazzroom

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Warren Vache is one of just a few active cornet players, though he proves to be a lot more wide-ranging in his choice of songs than the late great Ruby Braff (while also possessing a greater sense of humor). Having studied with Pee Wee Erwin, Vache gained early experience playing with Benny Goodman, Vic Dickenson and Bob Wilber. He has recorded over three dozen albums as a leader and is a regular on the jazz party circuit. These 2007 performances ...

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Warren Vache / Allan Vache: Remember (Ms. Vache's Boys)

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The Vaché brothers, cornetist Warren and clarinetist Allan, grew up in New Jersey in a hotbed of revivalist trad jazz. Their father, Warren Vaché Sr., was a bassist and writer-editor (a bio of Pee Wee Erwin, the early Chicago-style trumpeter, and editor of Jersey Jazz, a newsletter) and one of the Jersey neo-traditionalists who helped kick-off revivals with the annual Pee Wee Russell Memorial Stomp. But while the brothers were steeped in trad jazz--an experience that has given them a ...

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Warren Vache and the Scottish Ensemble: Don't Look Back

Read "Don't Look Back" reviewed by Edward Blanco


A veteran trumpeter with an extensive resume that includes stage, radio and television performances, Warren Vaché filled a void in his three-decade career with the recoding of Don't Look Back. Having once stated that “Everybody really serious about jazz music dreams of making a recording with a string ensemble, Vaché accomplishes this long-held desire by joining forces with the Scottish Ensemble, a twelve-piece virtuoso string group that once specialized in only baroque music. Playing against the backdrop of the strings, ...

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Warren Vache with Lenore Raphael at Pure Jazz Radio

Warren Vache with Lenore Raphael at Pure Jazz Radio

Source: Michael Ricci

On Lenore Raphael's Jazz Spot this week it's Warren Vache. Lenore Raphael talks and plays with some of the leading talent in Jazz each week at 8am and 8pm (ET) Sundays. The show is rebroadcast 11pm Friday nights immediately following the NY Tonight Show with Rich Keith. Also note: Carla Lilien, a long time Jazz Radio host here in the NY area, Debuts her show “The Jazz Corner of the World" this Sunday, August 2nd at 9pm (ET). Pure Jazz ...

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Warren Vache and Jazz Band Classic Perform the Trumpet Blues at Symphony Space on March 14, 2007

Warren Vache and Jazz Band Classic Perform the Trumpet Blues at Symphony Space on March 14, 2007

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

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Warren Vache and Jazz Band Classic Perform the Trumpet Blues

Jazz Band Classic and Warren Vache, legendary cornetist of the Rosemary Clooney and Annie Ross ensembles, perform “Trumpet Blues: A Salute to the Great Trumpet-Playing Bandleaders" under the leadership of director Chris Winans. Now in its fifth season, the 16-member ensemble, specializing in swing band music of the post-war era, will honor legends Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, and Harry James in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Hall at ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

With Roses

Triangle7
2023

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Don't Let A Good...

Maud Hixson
2013

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Jubilation: Live in...

Arbors Records
2009

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Remember (Ms. Vache's...

Nagel Heyer Records
2008

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Don't Look Back

Arbors Records
2006

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