A native of New Jersey, Tony Vacca began his professional career at the age of seven in the family band and continued throughout his teenage years playing sax and keyboards. Mr. Vacca received his formal training at Arizona State University's jazz department under the direction of Dan Hearle and Tom Ferguson, and went on to perform and teach in the Phoenix area for the next several years. In 1982, Tony moved to Chicago, where he spent the next 16 years as a highly regarded professional musician and educator. In 1998, Tony returned to the Phoenix metro area to serve as the director of Jazz Studies at Scottsdale Community College and continues to use Phoenix as his base of operations for writing, master classes/clinics, performing, and touring around the world.

Over the course of his prestigious career, Tony has performed and recorded with such jazz legends as Lionel Hampton, Sammy Davis, Jr., Richie Cole, Conti Condoli, Irvin Mayfield, John Faddis, The Four Tops, Sam Moore, The Temptations, The Swingtips, Tony Bennett, Frank Foster, Marvin Stamn, and Doc Severinson to name just a few. Mr. Vacca holds a B.A. from Northeastern Illinois University and is a voting member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences. He was a featured soloist with both the Bob Stone and Rob Parton Big Bands and can be heard on Parton's first release, Rob Parton’s Jazz Tech Big Band, on the Sea Breeze label. 

Tony's first book, Improv Made Easy, is published by Houston Publishing and distributed by Hal Leonard Publishing and is currently available in music stores worldwide. A busy clinician and educator, he has been a faculty member of the Jamey Aebersold summer jazz clinics, as well as the Sedona Jazz On The Rocks Youth Program and the Chandler Jazz Youth Program.  

As an established artist, Tony’s latest CD release, Three Point Landing, co-produced by Grammy nominated, Irvin Mayfield, is receiving rave reviews around the globe as “thoughtful, demure, straightahead post-bop.” Released on Half Note Records, the official label for the world famous Blue Note Jazz Clubs, Three Point Landing is now available in stores everywhere.

Tony Vacca is available for concerts, clinics and master classes. For more information contact:

Tony Vacca 1220 E. Michelle Dr. Phoenix, AZ 85022 • ph. 602-482-2424 • fax 602-482-1811
tvacca@saxplayer.com

*For inquiries regarding engagements outside the State of AZ or the U.S., contact:

A.I. Productions PO Box 41990 Mesa, AZ 85274 • ph. 480-218-9799 • fax 480-218-0869
www.auralimage.com