Jimmy Vivino has produced, lead bands and recorded with a countless number of rock and roll and blues artists for five decades including the likes of Hubert Sumlin, Warren Haynes, Bob Weir, Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Johnnie Johnson, Son Seals, Shemekia Copeland, Levon Helm, Phoebe Snow, Dion, Laura Nyro, Bob Margolin, Lowell Fulson, John Sebastian, Joe Louis Walker and Al Kooper. And although Jimmy is probably best known for serving 26 years as Conan O’Brien’s musical director, guitarist and bandleader, his experience in the music business predates that by 20 plus years. He has always considered himself “a blues man with a job.”
Vivino served as the music director on the TBS late-night program Conan. He was a consistent element in O'Brien's late night career, starting with the very first episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien in September 1993. In June 2008, Jimmy moved from New York to Los Angeles and worked as music director/guitarist/arranger on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour, and until 2018, lead Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band on Conan.
These days Vivino divides his time between recording sessions and live gigs throughout the country.