Vincent Cassotta has been a professional musician and teacher since 1977.  As an accomplished trumpet player, he toured nationally with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.  He also performed with Frank Sinatra, The Manhattan Transfer, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Vinton, Sergio Franchi, The Four Tops, Sammy Davis Jr., Andy Williams, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras, Frankie Valli, and Bobby Rydell.

Vin has performed in numerous pit orchestras for productions such as:  Annie, Grease, La Cage Aux Folles, and All That Jazz.  He has also performed with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra New England, The Summer Festival Orchestra, and The Simsbury Light Opera.

Vin has also been teaching in the Enfield Public School system at both the elementary and secondary level since 1986.  As a high school band director his band received several awards including finalist at The Berklee Jazz Festival in Boston.  He was also the founder and director of the Enfield Community Jazz Ensemble.

Vin is also a published composer and arranger with KJOS Music.

Partial Song List

Standards:

–As Time Goes By

–Come Rain or Shine

–Early Autumn

–I Can’t Get Started

–The Man I Love

–Someone to Watch Over Me

–Tis Autumn

–You Go to My Head

–Unforgettable

–My Funny Valentine

–When I Fall in Love

–You Made Me Love You

–Indian Summer

Swing:

–Ain’t Misbehavin

–Begin the Beguine

–Days of Wine and Roses

–East of the Sun

–Easy to Love

–Flying Home

–Fly Me to the Moon

–A Foggy Day

–Go Daddy O

–I Could Write a Book

–I Concentrate on You

–I Get a Kick Out of You

–I Love You

–In the Mood

–It’s All Right With Me

–The More I See You

–Night and Day

–Our Love is Here to Stay

–Route 66

–Secret Love

–September in the Rain

–Sweet Georgia Brown

–The Way You Look Tonight

–This Can’t Be Love

–You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To

–Where or When

–Woodchoppers Ball

Louis Armstrong:

–Ain’t Misbehavin

–Baby Won’t You Please Come Home

–Basin Street Blues

–Bill Bailey

–Blueberry Hill

–Cabaret

–Crazy Rhythm

–Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans

–Give Me a Kiss to Build a Dream On

–Hello Dolly

–I Can’t Give You Anything But Love

–I’m Confessin that I Love You

–I’ve Got Rhythm

–Indiana

–Oh Lady Be Good

–Mack the Knife