Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 4:45pm

Mike Horsfall Trio performs at the St. James Lutheran Church

Presented as part of the Biamp Jazz Festival

  • Dan Balmer
  • Laurent Nickel
  • Tim Rap

Pre-Festival Celebration - The jazz vespers is an all-inclusive, meditative evening service of word and music in the form of a jazz tinged original liturgy, punctuated with jazz standards throughout. The St. James Jazz Vespers has been held once a month for many years, featuring some of Portland's finest jazz musicians.  The service is free (a goodwill offering is suggested), and all are welcome.  

Dan Balmer - From coffee house gigs at fifteen to chart-topping success with the Tom Grant Band in the 90s, world tours with two-time Grammy Award winner Diane Schuur and contemporary jam-bands, Dan Balmer brings fire and heart every time he plays the guitar. His playing spans nearly one hundred CDs including twelve as a leader from which his original works have appeared internationally in television, film and radio. An in-demand educator, Dan maintains a busy schedule of private lessons, group clinics and master classes throughout the US and abroad. He adjudicates student jazz band competitions at events such as the Monterey Next Generation Festival and Reno Jazz Festival along with being a long-term teacher at the Centrum Jazz Workshop. He is the director of jazz combos at Lewis And Clark College while also on faculty at virtually every other college in the greater Portland, Oregon area.

Mike Horsfall - Mike Horsfall has enjoyed a successful musical career for over 40 years, serving as concert soloist, accompanist, musical director, educator, composer, arranger, and recording artist on both vibraphone and piano. In 2010 Horsfall was voted into the Oregon Jazz Society’s Hall of Fame as a member of the award winning trio, Tall Jazz, which he co-founded in 1989. He has performed and recorded with a diverse group of world class acts, including Ken Peplowski, Anat Cohen, Kurt Elling, Janis Siegel, Pink Martini, Valarie Day and Nu Shooz, the Portland Chamber Orchestra, Marv & Rindy Ross, Rebecca Kilgore, Marilyn Keller, and Darrell Grant, to name just a few. As a jazz educator, Horsfall has taught at Mt. Hood Community College, Clark College, and Oregon Episcopal School, and is currently on the music faculty at Willamette University.

Details

February 16, 2025
4:45 pm
Free

Venue

503-227-2439
1315 SW Park Ave.
Portland, OR 97201