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Jun 2, 1989 · Perhaps best known for his 23-year association with the jazz group The Three Suns, Vento, 62, now assembles musicians for his touring company, “Joe Vento’s Jazz Allstars,” which recently ...
Jan 29, 2019 · Joe Vento is a Grammy Award-winning musician who began studying violin at 2 years of age with Professors Bevalaqua and Solfeggio and under the capable guidance of his musicologist-father. At 4, Joe began accordion-studies with Guido Deiro. An accelerated student, at 13 he won a scholarship in composition and musicology from the Julliard School ...
Deven May, who played Tommy DeVito in the Strip stage show, was celebrating No. 42. But the man at the piano had long passed that mark, and was age 95. He was, and is, Joe Vento. He’s 100 now ...
Dec 31, 2013 · Joe Vento plays in the lobby of an off-the-Strip hotel in Las Vegas, joined for a rendition of "Over the Rainbow" by Gigi Malandra, 5. At 95, Vento has a long career's worth of Vegas musician stories.
Joey Vento was his own man. He was not his brother; he was not his father. He was an individual, a human being. And because this is America, he got a chance. By working his ass off, he made the ...
But for at least one resident, it was a special day. Joe Vento was named Citizen of the Month. For the nearly a century, Army veteran and musician Vento has tickled the ivories and squeezed the accordion in a career that has taken him to Hollywood and other far-flung locales of the entertainment world.
Apr 21, 2014 · For years, he was part of the trio The Three Suns. The Three Suns went the way of postwar pop, but Vento kept going. And he has no plans to stop. On this sleepy Sunday afternoon, he’s getting ready to lead his Joe Vento Big Band – 18 musicians who gather at the Las Hadas Restaurant near LA almost every Sunday to belt out big-band tunes.
