Interviewed by pianist Rob Mullins
Channel: Vin Cognito
Date: 2020-08-19

Here I was interviewed by friend, bandmate (in the Elegant Strangers) and brilliant jazz pianist, Rob Mullins. To my mind, he's one of the top jazz pianists in the metropolitan Los Angeles area. Amazingly, he was mostly self-taught. He's produced at least 30+ jazz records. Among them, inspired by our gig in Venice, beloved by both Rob and myself, he decided to create an album called, 'Only In Venice,' on which I was the featured guitarist on a few of the numbers. In fact, he wrote one of the songs, "Slow Dance," in order to feature my guitar playing. 

Rob just recently started podcasting and had put about three of them out. He got in touch and asked if I'd be up to being interviewed. Of course, I said yes. I knew it'd be a lot of fun and almost like a typical hang between sets, stepping outside of the club for a smoke. In ways, it was even better because we got to talk more in depth about things we only nominally talked about before. 

Rob Mullins' YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/planetmullins/featured

Rob's 'Only In Venice' album can be found here: http://onlyinvenice.com/


Venice Paparazzi Interview: https://www.venicepaparazzi.com/2018/07/31/vinnie-caggiano/



 I hope you can sense the fun we were having!