The JVQ just celebrated their five-year anniversary at Gracie’s at the end of July, 2019, and will have completed 275 jam sessions by the end of 2019. In summer of 2014, Gracie's in downtown Salt Lake began featuring the JVQ as the house band for their Monday Jazz Jam, with Halliday as the host. The JVQ's energy, musicianship, and passionate, soulful performances ensured packed houses every Sunday night. Led by co-musical directors David Halliday and Courtney Smith, the JVQ has performed jazz tributes to more than fifty different artists and composers at Jazz Vespers including: the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Sting and The Police, and many more, featuring original arrangements by Halliday and Smith.

In fall of 2009, the Jazz Vespers Quartet (JVQ) formed to become the house band for the Jazz Vespers concert series, a 30-year tradition that took place on the eight Sundays before Christmas each year at the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City under the direction of Rev.

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