This week 6.29.2026 Monday Jazz features guest artist Mike Horsfall. Mike has enjoyed a successful and diverse musical career for over 40 years, serving as a concert soloist, accompanist, musical director, educator, composer, arranger, and recording artist on both piano and vibraphone. He broke into the Portland jazz scene with the vibes-bass-drums trio “Tall Jazz”, a group he co-founded in 1989. In 2010, after more than two decades of performances, recordings, and clinics, Tall Jazz was voted into the Oregon Jazz Society's Hall of Fame.
Mike has performed and/or recorded with a great many world class musicians, including Anat Cohen, Kurt Elling, Janis Siegel, Terrell Stafford, David Grisman, Ken Peplowski, Holly Hofman, Ingrid Jensen, Chuck Redd, Dmitri Matheny, Valerie Day, Rebecca Kilgore, Karla Harris, Marilyn Keller, and Randy Porter, among others. He has collaborated with Marv & Rindy Ross’ Trail Band, Pink Martini, Nu Shooz, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. Recently, Mike has toured and recorded with Darrell Grant’s “MJ New”, a quartet honoring the music of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Dmitri Matheny on flugelhorn. “Dmitri Matheny is a jazz treasure”. The lyrical Matheny has impressive chops, but it’s his warmth and soulfulness that win you over.”—All Music Guide … Acclaimed for his warm tone, soaring lyricism and masterful technique, American flugelhornist DMITRI MATHENY has been lauded as “one of the most emotionally expressive improvisers of his generation” (International Review of Music). An honors graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Dmitri Matheny vaulted onto the jazz scene in the 1990s as the protégé of jazz legend Art Farmer. Since then he has garnered critical acclaim and a loyal international following, touring extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, traveling to 19 countries. With over 100 recordings to his credit, Dmitri Matheny has released 12 albums as a leader. The San Francisco Chronicle calls Matheny “one of the jazz world’s most talented horn players.”
The Band includes Osama Afifi on bass, and Mark Investor on drums. Enjoy great food, your favorite beverage, a comfortable kid friendly atmosphere, and WORLD CLASS JAZZ. Hope to see you!
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