Allan Vache
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Allan Vache is an American jazz clarinetist, and brother of the noted jazz cornetist Warren Vache
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Vache played with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
of San Antonio, Texas, for 17 years, and was a regular on the Riverwalk
- Live from the Landing radio show on Public Radio International
, which featured the Cullum band. He also performed with Cullum on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. He is a featured performer on the only jazz recording of the entire score of Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" with the Cullum band, released on the CBS Masterworks record label. He toured Mexico for the U.S. State Department with the live show of Porgy & Bess narrated by opera great William Warfield. He also has performed at Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center in New York, and The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
He graduated from Rahway High School
in 1971.
He has performed with, or appeared on stage with, such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton,Pete Fountain, Clark Terry, Benny Carter, Milt Hinton, Bob Haggart, Yank Lawson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gene Krupa, Jake Hanna, Scott Hamilton, Herb Ellis, and many others.
He has also performed with pop artists Bonnie Raitt & Leon Redbone, and can be heard on the soundtrack of the 1998 film The Newton Boys starring Mathew McConaughey and Julianna Margulies.
He has several recordings as a soloist on the Arbors, Audiophile, Chesky, and Nagel-Heyer (of Hamburg, Germany) record labels.
Vache has performed in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
He currently resides in Orlando, Florida
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Warren Vache
Warren Vaché is a jazz trumpeter, cornetist and flugelhornist born in Rahway, New Jersey. He came from a musical family as his father was a bassist. In 1976 he released his first album...
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Vache played with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band
Jim Cullum Jazz Band
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band is an acoustic seven-piece traditional jazz ensemble led by cornetist Jim Cullum, Jr.. Since 1989, the band has been featured nationally on their own weekly public radio series Riverwalk Jazz...
of San Antonio, Texas, for 17 years, and was a regular on the Riverwalk
San Antonio River Walk
The San Antonio River Walk is a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River, one story beneath downtown San Antonio, Texas...
- Live from the Landing radio show on Public Radio International
Public Radio International
Public Radio International is a Minneapolis-based American public radio organization, with locations in Boston, New York, London and Beijing. PRI's tagline is "Hear a different voice." PRI is a major public media content creator and also distributes programs from many sources...
, which featured the Cullum band. He also performed with Cullum on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. He is a featured performer on the only jazz recording of the entire score of Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" with the Cullum band, released on the CBS Masterworks record label. He toured Mexico for the U.S. State Department with the live show of Porgy & Bess narrated by opera great William Warfield. He also has performed at Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center in New York, and The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
He graduated from Rahway High School
Rahway High School
Rahway High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Rahway, in Union County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Rahway Public Schools. The high school's present location was built in 1941...
in 1971.
He has performed with, or appeared on stage with, such jazz greats as Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton,Pete Fountain, Clark Terry, Benny Carter, Milt Hinton, Bob Haggart, Yank Lawson, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gene Krupa, Jake Hanna, Scott Hamilton, Herb Ellis, and many others.
He has also performed with pop artists Bonnie Raitt & Leon Redbone, and can be heard on the soundtrack of the 1998 film The Newton Boys starring Mathew McConaughey and Julianna Margulies.
He has several recordings as a soloist on the Arbors, Audiophile, Chesky, and Nagel-Heyer (of Hamburg, Germany) record labels.
Vache has performed in Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
He currently resides in Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
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