Ray Vega/trumpet, Evan Allen/piano, Jeremy Hill/bass, Gaza Carr/drums. The RayVegaQuARTet presents original and standards and focuses on hard core swinging!!
In addition to his busy sideman and teaching schedule, Vega has also been developing his own bands. The Ray Vega Quartet (bebop and beyond), Ray Vega and The New York Latin Jazz All Stars (following in the footsteps of Mongo, Barretto and Fort Apache). Vega has performed at the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Modern Art (both in NYC), Wave Hill in NYC, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (five years in a row), the San Jose Jazz Festival (1999, 2000, 2004, 2005), The Blue Note, Birdland, The Jazz Standard, Tula's in Seattle, Jazz at The Bistro in St. Louis, Mo, The Blue Wisp in Cincinnati, Churchill Grounds in Atlanta, Jazz en Carolina-Puerto Rico, Artsplosure in Raleigh, NC, the Battery Park Salsa Series and the South Street Seaport/Heineken Latin Jazz Series, The Duncan Theatre in West Palm Beach Fla., the 2002 U.S. Open, the Berne International Jazz Festival and Marian's Jazz Room in Switzerland, and the Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival. While in Lebanon in 2002, Vega participated in three concerts that were sponsored by The American Embassy in Beirut. A recent high point in Vega's career has been his celebrated March 2017 concert with The Burlington Chamber Orchestra featuring new arrangements of his compositions for his Latin Jazz Quintet and the strings of the Burlington Chamber Orchestra. August '08 trip to Australia where he performed and recorded the Australian premier of the classic Miles Davis/Gil Evans work,Sketches of Spain. In '09 Vega returned to Adelaide to perform the famous "Porgy and Bess" arranged by Gil Evans for Miles Davis' recording by the same name.
