Results for "Vincent Gardner"

Vincent Gardner

Born: October 31, 1972

2014 Downbeat "Rising Star" Trombone Award Winner and "Rising Star" Vocalist Nominee Vincent Gardner (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an trombonist and composer. As a bandleader, Gardner has released four albums under the SteepleChase record label. He performs with his own groups frequently, in addition to being the lead trombonist for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (which also features Wynton Marsalis). Gardner also performs often with his brother, trumpeter Derrick Gardner and his ensemble, The Jazz Prophets. Being born into a musical family in which both his father, Burgess Gardner, a trumpeter who has played with many groups including Ray Charles, Count Basie, and Horace Silver, and his mother, a pianist and choir director, are both music educators, Gardner was surrounded by music at an early age

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis at Hancher Auditorium

by Joshua Weiner
February 11, 2026

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Hancher Auditorium Iowa City, IA January 29, 2026 Wynton Marsalis, the great trumpeter, composer and educator, founded New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) in 1987 and has served as its artistic director ever since. JALC, home to the Jazz at Lincoln ...

Eric Alexander's latest plus new music from Novalima, Dream Brigade and Candice Hoyes

by Hobart Taylor
April 16, 2025

Eric Alexander, Igmar Thomas Revive Big Band, Canada's Ostara Project and Candice Hoyes! Playlist Candice Hoyes Ted NashVincent Gardner “Far Away Star" from Far Away Star (Self Produced) 0:00 Sacha Boutros “J'Attendrai (featuring Giovanni Mirabassi)" from Love Trilogy (Hear Me Roar) 4:48 Eric Alexander" The Lamp Is Low" from Chicago To New York (Cellar) ...

FOUR + Six

By Mark Watkins

Label: Jazz Hang Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: On Any Given Day in Summer; Don't Care Who Knows It; Against My Desire to Imagine; The Executioner is Looking Away; Shouldn'a Did That; Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow and Forever; Without Another Word.

Mark Watkins: FOUR + Six

by Chris May
April 5, 2024

We had out of nowhere, we had straight outta Compton. Here comes straight out of Brigham Young University, Idaho, where saxophone quartet FOUR leader Mark Watkins has been director of jazz studies since 1999. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints may not the most abundant source of high-grade jazz--one assumes that Watkins is a ...

FOUR

Continuing a long tradition of wonderful jazz saxophone quartet recordings FOUR adds trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, bass and drums for a smorgasbord of new tunes by the amazing composer, Mark Watkins. 

FOUR is Mark Watkins, soprano saxophone; Ray Smith, alto saxophone; Sandon Mayhew, tenor saxophone; and Jon Gudmundson, baritone saxophone. 

They are joined by Derrick Gardner, trumpet (Count Basie Band); Vincent Gardner, trombone (lead trombone with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra); Justin Nielsen, piano; Corey Christiansen, guitar; Braun Kahn, bass; and Kobie Watkins, drums (Sonny Rollins). (See Gordon Goodwin’s review in the FOUR bio and Mark’s own notes.) 

Pan Africa

By Derrick Gardner

Label: Impact Jazz
Released: 2023
Track listing: Djemba Kan; Appointment in Ghana; 10,000 Ships; The Sixth Village; Highlife Suite; Blues for the Diaspora; Vicente; The Afro Mestizo; NKRUMAH ‘da RULAH; Assin Manso …. The Last Bath.

A Tasting Menu

by John Chacona
February 6, 2023

It says a lot for the current state of the music that some of the most interesting music hitting the market is being made by lesser-known artists who might never get a look from major labels. Here are four that have their own particular—and very different—charms. All are worth a spin for the sheer joy of ...

Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets: Pan Africa

by Mike Jurkovic
January 30, 2023

A big man with a big plan and a boisterous sextet at his back, trumpeter Derrick Gardner and his razor-fine Jazz Prophets unapologetically and unflinchingly blow the walls down with Pan Africa. Hyperbole? Not really. Just let Gardner and company free on Jackie McLean's hopscotching “Appointment In Ghana" (from Jackie's Bag, his first for ...

Meet Saxophonist Zoe Obadia

by Sanford Josephson
September 1, 2022

In April 2019, alto saxophonist Zoe Obadia sat in with the Bill Charlap Trio to play Dave Brubeck's “Time Out" at International Jazz Day. “I was definitely very nervous to sit in with such an established and refined trio," she said," but I had fun and felt very supported on stage and off." Said Charlap: “She ...