• QUICK BIO: This triple threat female power house plays pocket trumpet, sings, is an award winning composer & leads the much acclaimed jazzy funky pop quartet: Ginetta's Vendtta!~
10/21/2024 11:26:02 PM
Ginetta.s Vendetta
New York City NY - United States
• Jazz [Funk]
• INFLUENCES: Miles Davis, Arturo Sandoval, Ella Fitzgerald
• MEMBER(S):
Ginetta M.-Pocket trumpet, Vocals
• CONTACT INFO:
Ginettasvendettamusic@gmail.com
ginettasvendetta@aol.com
(01) 646.345.0456
www.ginettasvendetta.com
myspace.com/ginettasvendetta
facebook.com/.ginettavendetta1
• BIO:
This triple-threat female powerhouse, plays pocket trumpet, sings and is an award winning composer from New York City & an alumna of North Texas State University. Just back from yet another massively successful Tour in the central Asia country of Uzbekistan, Ginetta's Vendetta Headlined at the 6th annual Uzbekistan international Jazz festival on International Jazz day!! The band also traveled to the ancient city of Ichan Kala to give yet another sold out concert in addition to playing at the Ambassadors residence in Tashkent. They visited disabled youth, various conservatories, gave seminars, interviews & generally won over yet another part of the world!!!! During the pandemic Ginetta's Live stream show "Cool Jazz from NYC" was a successful show that inspired & connected thousands of people across the world! 2019 was another banner year for her with Ginetta recently finishing her 5th CD as a Bandleader: "Pocketful Of Cool" available on CD baby worldwide!!! Just returned from another Successful "Diplomatic Immunity Tour ll", to the wonderful Republic of Moldova in Eastern Europe where she once again played for the U.S. ambassador & Toured through out the land!!! Her "Build Bridges, Not Walls Tour llI", 2019 through Mexico was a sell out from Mexico City to San Miguel Allende to Ajijic! Plus her debut at The Cayman Island Batabanu Fest 2019 , including a feature spot in the Carnival parade, adds yet another country to her list of conquests!!!! Another successful trip to Omaha at the famous "Loves Jazz Center also had Ginetta teaching 3 music seminars to students from grammar school to college! Her November 2018 "Diplomatic Immunity Tour" with her band "Ginetta's Vendetta (c.) took her to Moscow where she played at the U.S. Embassy for the U.S. Ambassador John Huntsman Jr. & dozens of visiting dignitaries! Her tour continued to the Russian Far East & included headlining at the Vladivostok international Jazz festival, then continuing on to Nahodka, Yuzhno-Sakalinsk, Khabarovsk & beyond. An amazingly successful tour where she was treated like a rock start with television appearances, radio shows, podcasts and interviews with press in many major publications! A super successful "California Adventure" Tour, from Long Beach to the Russian River, culminated in Ginetta's Vendetta at the opening of the San Jose Jazz SummerFest! From the Belleayre Music Festival in upstate New York to the Lexington Market in Baltimore, from a weekly schooner gig on the "Adirondack" to a residency at the Harlem supper club, Farafina, from the Loves Jazz & Art center in Omaha to the Jersey City summer concert series, from the Jefferey Dinowitz Summer Concerts to the Hamptons & beyond Ginetta M. is gaining new fans all across the country!!!! The recording of her most recent and 4th CD "Little Big Horn" bandleader Ginetta M. continues to break new ground with her original arrangements of the classics. From "Autumn Leaves" to "Blue Bossa", The Beatles "Yesterday" to "You Don't Know What Love Is" this latest collection is destined to once again rule the top 20 Jazz Radio airwaves! Another stellar 4-hour live recording session includes a return of piano virtuoso: Jon Davis and Tenor sax phenomonon: Danny Walsh!They are joined by the swinging rhythum section that includes Tom "Bad Mother" Hubbard on Bass & Eric Halvorson on Drums....Little Big Horn is a must for any Jazz enthusiast! “Standards”, 9 weeks on the Jazz Week chart, is the 3rd CD by pocket trumpeter Ginetta M. This highly acclaimed recording was done in one 4 hour session and includes some of the best players in New York City! They are: Ginetta Minichiello - Pocket Trumpet & Vocals, Danny Walsh - Tenor Saxophone, Jon Davis - Piano , Marcello Pelliteri - Drums & Scott Thornton- Bass. It is currently on the Grammy ballot in 4 categories! They are: Best Instrumental Arrangement w/ vocals: Killer Joe, Ginetta M. Arranger, Best improvised Jazz solo, Stolen Moments, Ginetta M. soloist, Best Jazz instrumental album, Standards by Ginetta M. and Best Improvised jazz solo, Bye Bye Blackbird, Danny Walsh - Soloist.
With CD’s playing on stations around the globe, she has traveled extensively in Canada, Mexico, Lebanon, South America,the Caribbean, Europe and the United States! She has also played in numerous festivals including the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, the Prishtina Jazz Festival in Kosovo, the St. John Blues Festival in the U.S. Virgin Islands, her annual tour thru Jalisco Mexico (from Guadalajara to San Miguel Allende) the Gainesville Jazz Festival in Florida and a bi-annual appearance at the Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival in Jamaica. She has won numerous awards for composition & is one of the busiest bandleaders in NYC! Known internationally as "The Pocket Miles" Ginetta M. is on track to limitless musical opportunities!! As Ginetta always says: "With my horn as my passport, there's no place i Cant go!"
• REQUIREMENTS/ADDITIONAL:
With My horn as my passport, there's no place I can't Go!
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