Vincent Gross Music

Vincent Gross is best known for his musical multiplicity as a vocalist, instrumentalist, and showman. His Avant-Garde jazz vocalese, crooning and scatting styles combined with incisive improvisational techniques and skills on the trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn allows audiences a fully immersive and engaging experience as an all-around performer.

Gross’s chameleon-like gritty impression of Louis Armstrong reveals his and other influences of Miles Davis, Roy Eldridge, Kenny Dorham, Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Eddie Jefferson, Howard McGhee, Fats Navarro, Charlie Shavers, and Clark Terry to name a few. Gross boasts an impressive repertorie of popular songs and jazz standards in the Great American Songbook covering jazz, bebop, blues, R&B, funk/soul, hip-hop/rap, pop, and folk genres. Gross also composes and actively contributes vocal and instrumental tracks to local, national and international artists appearing on Grammy® Award-winning and nominated projects (1997-2018).

Gross’s career took him to widely-played venues in the ‘80s performing alongside renowned artists like Gary Bartz, Brian Blade, Cyrus Chestnut, Mickey Fields, Kristopher Funn, Mark Gross, Roy Hargrove, Phillip Harper, Antonio Hart, J.J. Johnson, Bobby Lyle, Delfeayo Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy McGriff, Mulgrew Miller, Lee Pearson, Rufus Reid, The Temptations, Gary Thomas, Sarah Vaughan, Mark Whitfield, and Warren Wolf to name a few.

After relocating to Houston, TX, in 2018, Gross’s mother encouraged him to return to his God-given gift of singing and playing the trumpet. He rapidly rose on the music scene leading bands, performing, composing, producing, and teaching trumpet techniques privately. Gross is regarded as one of the most entertaining vocalists in Houston. Garnering this much success in a short period of time, one can only guess what’s next for this artist.