Vince was born and raised in the D.C area and graduated from Catholic University with a degree in Music Education. He studied in New Orleans at Loyola University and played professionally there for a year. He's been married for 20 years and is the proud father of one very musical son Myles. He has played professionally and taught music since the late 70s.

He is a co-founder and trumpet player with the J Street Jumpers which has performed many times at The Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian Jazz Café, at The White house for the Clintons, the Governor's Convention, and many other venues locally and nationally.He has won, with four different bands, a total of 14 Washington Music Association Awards - seven years straight with the J Street Jumpers as "Best Big Band, Best Swing Band, and Best Traditional Jazz Group".

Vince also plays with the Brooks Tegler Band, the Previty Monk/Mingus Band, the Wright Touch Big Band, and the Blue Rhythm Boys . He has also played with Jiimy Heath and Junior Mance, Charles Brown, the Grammy Awards Big Band, the Uptown Rhythm Kings, Jr. Cline and the Recliners, and at least 50 other groups in the past 35 years.