Warren Vaché, Sr.
String Bass

Warren Vaché, Sr. has an international reputation as a musician (string bass) and jazz historian. He has played with many of the foremost jazz artists, including Bobby Hackett, Wild Bill Davison, Pee Wee Erwin, Pee Wee Russel, Gene Krupa, and Teddy Wilson. Warren appears with The Syncopatin'/Celebratin' Seven

He is also the author of five books on jazz and jazz musicians: This Horn for Hire - the biography of trumpet player Pee Wee Erwin, Crazy Fingers a biography of pianist - bandleader - composer, Claude Hopkins; Back Beats and Rim Shots, with a forward by Mel Tormé, is the life story and career of drummer Johnny Blowers; Jazz Gentry, with a forward by Bobby Hackett, is a compilation of magazine articles published over a period of more than twenty years; and Unsung Songwriters, a comprehensive volume devoted to the great American popular songs and those who wrote them, will be published in 1999.

Warren Vaché, Sr. is the father of two world class jazz musicians, cornet player Warren Vaché, Jr. and the clarinetist, Allan Vaché. Both have recorded extensively and are in great demand as featured artists in this country and abroad.