Guitarist Vincent Venezia is a talent on today’s contemporary music scene. He began playing guitar at age eight, studying with various instructors from his hometown of Cliffside Park, New Jersey.

Accomplished in several styles of music, he is a veteran of Broadway and European tours and works steadily in the tri-state area as a leader, sideman and composer since graduating William Paterson College with a degree in Jazz Studies and Performance.

Vincent was instructed by the best performers of our time: jazz guitarists Bob DeVos, Harry Leahey and classical guitarist Leonid Bolotin and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Vincent two consecutive fellowships to study with modern jazz star Mike Stern.

Some of the greats he has performed with include: Kermit Driscoll, Lincoln Goines, Harvie S, Richie Morales, Cameron Brown, Steve Marcus, Steve Johns, Lew Soloff, Steve LaSpina, Gerry Niewood and Doug Weiss.

Vincent writes compositions for jazz ensemble and solo guitar with influence drawn from Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and Miles Davis and his broad knowledge within the jazz tradition yields a musical voice with exciting results.

Always looking forward to performing music in more challenging creative situations, and bringing forth new music to his dutiful fans, Vin’s new album, The Venetian will be released October 20th, 2023.

1. Days Of Wine & Roses
2. Solar
3. Stella By Starlight
4. Alone Together
5. How Insensitive
6. Windows
7. Lush Life
8. Nardis
9. Tune Up
10. I Love You
11. Without A Sound
12. Without A Sound (Reprise)

The album opens on the laid low Days Of Wine & Roses and the scintillating Solar, those are followed by the accomplished Stella By Starlight, the furtively-scored Alone Together, the playful How Insensitive, and then we get both the joyously abounding Windows and the more stoically-sculpted Lush Life.

Up next on this ravishingly opulent new album, is the luxurious Nardis which is itself backed by the aptly-named Tune Up, then comes the languishing beauty found within Tell Her You Saw Me, the recording rounding out on the furtively fervent I Love You, closing on the simply divine, Renaissance-hued Without A Sound (and it’s one minute Reprise thereafter).

Featuring: Richie Morales, Harvie S, David Budway, Bob Magnuson and Danny Walsh.