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Herring, Vincent

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Personal name headingHerring, Vincent
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1964-11-16
Place of birthHopkinsville (Ky.)
AffiliationCalifornia State University Jazz Knights United States Military Academy Lionel Hampton Allstar Big Band Horace Silver Quintet Jazz Messengers
Profession or occupationSaxophonists Flute players Pianists Jazz musicians
Found inHis Evidence [SR] p1991: label (Vincent Herring)
Feather, L.G. Bio. enc. of jazz, 1999 (Herring, Vincent Dwyne; b. Nov. 19, 1964, Hopkinsville, KY; alto, soprano, tenor saxophones, flute, piano)
African American National Biography, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Herring, Vincent; jazz musician, saxophonist; born 16 November 1964 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States. He studied at California State University; he enrolled and passed an audition for the U.S. Military Academy band, the Jazz Knights. He toured Europe with the Lionel Hampton big band (1985); worked with the Horace Silver Quintet (1987), and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1989), and became a member of Adderley's quintet. he also worked with Wynton Marsalis's Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Jon Faddis's Carnegie Hall Big Band, and appeared on an estimated 200 sessions including 15 CDs as a leader (1985-2012))