Vincent Gardner is an American trombonist and composer.

Gardner has released four albums on SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...

 and also performs and records in a group with his brother, trumpeter Derrick Gardner

Derrick Gardner

Derrick Gardner is an American jazz trumpeter from Chicago, Illinois.Gardner began playing trumpet at age 9 in his hometown of Chicago, IL...

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He is the lead trombonist for the Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. JALC's performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at West 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly adjacent to Columbus Circle. Frederick P....

 Orchestra.

As leader

2009: Three-Five (SteepleChase)

2008: Vin-Slidin' (SteepleChase)

2007:The Good Book, Ch. 1 (SteepleChase)

2006: Elbow Room (SteepleChase)

As sideman

2009: Echoes of Ethnicity, Derrick Gardner and the Jazz Prophets + 2(Owl Studios)

2008: A Ride to the Other Side, Derrick Gardner and the Jazz Prophets (Owl Studios)

2006: Jam Session Vol. 23, Vincent Gardner, Wycliffe Gordon, Conrad Herwig (SteepleChase)

2005: Jam Session Vol. 20, Vincent Gardner, Andre Hayward, Danny Kirkhum (SteepleChase)

2005: Don't Be Afraid: The Music Of Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...

, The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra (Palmetto)

2004: A Love Supreme, The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra(Palmetto)

2003: Salt, Lizz Wright

Lizz Wright

Lizz Wright is an American jazz/R&B singer and composer.Wright was born in the small town of Hahira in the US state of Georgia; one of three children and the daughter of a minister and the musical director of their Church. She started singing gospel music and playing piano in church as a child,...

 (Verve)

2003: Slim Goodie, Derrick Gardner

Derrick Gardner

Derrick Gardner is an American jazz trumpeter from Chicago, Illinois.Gardner began playing trumpet at age 9 in his hometown of Chicago, IL...

 and the Jazz Prophets (Impact Music)

2003: We Do it Different, Frank Foster's Loud Minority Big Band (Mapleshade)

2002: Reel Time, Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

 (Sony Classical)

2001: All Rise, Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...

  (Sony Classical)

2000: Dear Louis, Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton

Nicholas Payton is a jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana.-Biography:The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father...

 (Verve)

1998: New York in the Fifties, Steve Allee

Steve Allee

Steve Allee is an American jazz musician and composer.Allee attended Ben Davis High Schoolin Indianapolis, Indiana. Allee was in a band during the early 1970s called the Baron Von Ohlen Quartet which self-released an album of the same name...

 (Alley Oop)

1998: Priority Soul, Brad Leali (Jazzworld.com)

1997: Blues for the New Millennium, Marcus Roberts

Marcus Roberts

Marcus Roberts is an American jazz pianist who has achieved fame as a stride pianist committed to celebrating classic standards and jazz traditions. Roberts has also distinguished his solos by accompanying himself with walking basslines...

(Columbia)