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Jazz Standards and More!
As just one live brass musician, the custom backing tracks I've created make it sound like I’m accompanied by full ensembles of various instrument combinations. With an extensive repertoire of songs in a variety of styles, I can fit as either background or dance music for a social event, or in a concert setting keeping your audience engaged. Genres available include jazz and swing standards, Beatles, kids’ songs, patriotic numbers, classical, and holiday classics.
With a small footprint, I can comfortably fit in intimate settings and control the volume to a suitable level for your venue. Onboard battery power means electrical outlets are not required.
19 Reviews
Dan’s performance for our .event was perfect. His playing was enjoyed by all ages. Dan was professional and pleasant to work with. I hope to have him perform again next year!
Brass Musician
Would highly recommend Dan and would consider him again for future events. He was very communicative, independent and everything was just so smooth. We received multiple compliments and positive feedback along as an inquiry about how to contact and book Dan.
Jazz Band, Brass Musician, Easy Listening Band, One Man Band
Dan was well-received by all of our attendees! We will definitely book Dan again!!!
Easy Listening Band, Trombone Player
Dan’s brass music was a huge hit at our nonprofit community event! He chose an amazing variety of family-friendly songs especially for this event and people were singing along and having so much fun! It added a lot to our event. We definitely want to book him for next year!
Brass Musician, Children’s Music, One Man Band
I will definitely hire Dan again! He was so nice, helpful, professional, communicated well, and was enjoyed by everyone who attended the event. Dan's ability to provide a whole band with just himself live is impressive, and you can't tell the difference. It also makes it easier to accommodate for smaller spaces or events. Thank you, Dan!
Brass Band, Brass Musician, One Man Band, Jazz Band
Dan Schlesinger came to our memory care community and played an hour of instrumental music for us. We enjoyed relaxing to familiar toe-tapping rhythms! We look forward to having him back again soon. Thank you, Dan!
Brass Musician, One Man Band, Trombone Player
Dan did a great job at our nonprofit fundraiser! He played very well, had a good stage presence, and was very easy to work with. We would definitely recommend him for your next event!
Swing Band
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Dan was early to set up, played very well and our residents were thrilled with his musical abilities. We will be booking him again!
Brass Band
Dan was very professional and easy to communicate with. People loved his choice of music and covers of songs he chose. We would definitely invite him back and recommend him for your next event.
Brass Musician, One Man Band, Trombone Player, Jazz Band
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Willamette Lutheran Retirement Community celebrated 60 years of service this year with a BBQ for our residents. We booked Dan for the event, and everyone was thoroughly impressed with his performance! Dan arrived with plenty of time to set up, was dressed very professionally, started right on time, and made a point to provide his audience with the tunes that their generation would appreciate and at a sound volume that they would still be able to communicate among themselves and hear the music he was performing also! He was an all-around exceptional value!
Big Band, Patriotic Entertainment
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Dan was the consummate professional and a very talented musician. He was very communicative, punctual, and fully delivered on what he promised.
Jazz Band
First, Dan's communication and customer service make him a delight to work with. The residents loved his music and wanted him to come back! Happy to work with Dan again!
One Man Band
I work with a senior housing building. We invite Dan to come and bring music to our residents. Dan brought it!
the residents enjoyed a couple hours of jazz music. There was some singing, and a bit of dancing and sitting around watching and listening to some great music. We invited back for one of our BBQs and again we got to enjoy great music!. Just an awesome event each time. so fun!!
One Man Band
Our residents at Avamere at Bethany absolutely loved Dan's performance. He was interactive, and charming. We are looking forward to having him play for us again. Truly a gifted musician and talent.
Brass Musician
Oh my! Such a terrific musician and person! Dan played jazz classics, popular music (Beatles, etc) and childhood favorites on his trombone and euphonium with background music he'd designed as an accompaniment. These concerts were held outdoors late afternoon with all to come by and enjoy, picnic or relax and listen. He is an extremely accomplished and versatile musician, always bringing in favorites of the kids (Pink Panther theme music), and spending the time to orchestrate his pieces with background clips played through his microphones. The audience as always hoping for more music when the concert was over, even though he had played throughout the 90 minutes. He played in several events throughout the last couple of years (than the event date below) including holiday themed-music. I would highly recommend him for any event with any audience. He is extremely reliable, prepared, prompt and polite to all. Really a joy to listen to and work with.
One Man Band
Dan has played is several community events as both a solo artist and as part of a larger group. Not only is he a talented musician but always cheerful, friendly and easy to get along with. His love of music is evident in his performances and he loves to share his talents with a variety of audiences.
Children’s Music, Jazz Band, One Man Band
We had Dan and his fellow musicians perform for a large party. They were fabulous and really made the party a memorable celebration. We have now heard Dan play many times and he is a versatile and talented pro that I highly recommend
Jazz Band
Dan is not only a great musician, he's a great guy! Can't beat that. He's talented and fun to watch play! Definitely worth having him play at your next event!
One Man Band
Booking Info
Price Range: $100 minimum
What to Expect
Expect a polished and professional performance. You'll hear a solo horn accompanied by ensembles of pre-recorded real instruments. Specific songs and styles can be tailored for your event. My compact portable PA system can be used for your own announcements or speeches. The setup allows controlling the volume to a suitable level for your specific venue and situation. With a small footprint, I can comfortably fit in intimate settings. The PA system has battery power so electrical outlets are not required. You'll get a full band sound with only one live performer.
Here's an alphabetical list of the titles in my repertoire:
JAZZ AND SWING STANDARDS, BEATLES, SONGS FOR KIDS, PATRIOTIC, CLASSICAL, HYMNS, & MORE
After You've Gone
Ain't Misbehavin'
Ain't She Sweet
Ain't We Got Fun
Alexander's Ragtime Band
All My Loving
All My Tomorrows
All of Me
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Almost Like Being In Love
Alone Together
Alphabet Song
Amazing Grace
Amen Shem Nora
America the Beautiful
Anchors Aweigh
Ancient Ayre
And I Love Her
And the Angels Sing
Ants Go Marching
As Time Goes By
Auld Lang Syne
Autumn in New York
Autumn Leaves
Avinu Malkenu
Awake My Soul
Baby Beluga
Back Home Again in Indiana
Baggage Claim Blues
Ballin the Jack
Band Played On
Bare Necessities
Basin Street Blues
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Be Our Guest
Beale Street Mama
Bear Went Over the Mountain
Beautiful Love
Beauty and the Beast
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen
Besame Mucho
Bewitched
Beyond the Sea
Bill Bailey
Bingo, Black Orpheus
Blue Bells of Scotland
Blue Bossa
Blue Moon
Blue Room
Blue Skies
Body and Soul
But Beautiful
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Bye Bye Blackbird
Caissons Go Rolling Along
California Here I Come
Can You Feel the Love Tonight
Canon in D
Charleston
Cheek to Cheek
Chicago That Toddlin' Town
Clarinet Polka
Colors of the Wind
Come Fly With Me
Could It Be You
Cry Me a River
Dance From Orpheus and Eurydice
Dancing on the Ceiling
Danny Boy
Darktown Strutters Ball
Darn That Dream
Day in Venice
Days of Wine & Roses
Desafinado
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
Do You Want to Know a Secret
Dock of the Bay
Dodi Li
Donna Donna
Don't Fence Me In
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
Down By the Riverside
Dream a Little Dream of Me
Drunken Sailor
Easy Winners
Eleanor Rigby
Eli Eli
Entertainer
Erev Shel Shoshanim
Everybody Loves My Baby
Falling in Love With Love
Fascinating Rhythm
Fiddler on the Roof
Fields of Gold
Five Foot Two
Fly Me to the Moon
Foggy Day
Georgia on My Mind
Girl From Ipanema
Give My Regards to Broadway
Glory of Love
Go to the Mardi Gras
God Bless America
God Bless the Child
Hakotel
Hallelujah
Happy Birthday
Hatikva
Hava Nagila
Havenu Shalom Alechem
Heart and Soul
Hello Dolly
Here Comes the Sun
Hey Jude
High Society
Hokey Pokey
Home on the Range
How Deep is the Ocean
How High the Moon
Hungarian Dance #5
I Can't Get Started With You
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I Could Have Danced All Night
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
I Love the Mountains
I Should Care
I Wanna Be Like You
If I Fell
If I Were a Bell
If I Were a Rich Man
If You're Happy and You Know It
I'm Beginning to See the Light
I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
In a Sentimental Mood
In My Life
In the Good Old Summertime
In the Mood
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Isn't It Romantic
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
It Might As Well Be Spring
Itsy Bitsy Spider
I've Got You Under My Skin
Ja Da
Jazz Me Blues
Jeopardy Theme
Jerusalem of Gold
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Just In Time
King Porter Stomp
Kiss the Girl
La Bouffonne
La Vie En Rose
Lady Bird
Lady Madonna
Lazy Bird
Let It Be
Let It Go
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Let's Fall In Love
Little March
Loch Lomond
Loverman
Lucky Southern
Lullaby of Birdland
Man I Love
Maple Leaf Rag
March (JCF Bach)
March (Schumann)
March From the Overture to The Occasional Oratorio
Mardi Gras Mambo
Maria
Marines Hymn
Matchmaker
Michelle
Mighty Fortress
Minuet and Trio
Misty
Momele
Moon River
Moondance
More
My Bonnie
My Country Tis of Thee
My Foolish Heart
My Funny Valentine
My One and Only Love
My Romance
Nearness of You
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Norwegian Wood
Nowhere Man
Oh You Beautiful Doll
Old Devil Moon
Old MacDonald
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
On Green Dolphin Street
On the Street Where You Live
On the Sunny Side of the Street
Ose Shalom
Over There, Over the Rainbow
Pennsylvania 6-5000
Penny Lane
Pink Panther
Please Please Me
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Polonaise
Puttin' On the Ritz
Rad Halaila
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Raisins and Almonds
Recorda-Me
Red Sails in the Sunset
Remember Me
Renaissance Festival
Rock of Ages
Rondeau,
Rose Room
Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sailor's Song
Satin Doll
Scarborough Fair
Scrapple From the Apple
Sea Shanty Medley
Second Line
Semper Paratus (Always Ready)
Sha Sha Der Rebbe Get
Shadow of Your Smile
Shalom Rav
She Loves You
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Shenandoah
Side By Side
Sidewalks of New York
Simple Gifts (Appalachian Shaker Song)
Sleigh Ride (Mozart)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Someone to Watch Over Me
Something
Somewhere
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
St. James Infirmary
St. Louis Blues
Stand By Me
Star Spangled Banner
Stardust
Stars & Stripes Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sugar Town
Summertime
Sunrise Sunset
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Surrey With the Fringe on Top
Sway
Sweet Georgia Brown
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Swinging on a Star
SWonderful
Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
Take 5
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Take the A Train
Tenting on the Old Campground
That's A Plenty
There Is No Greater Love
There Will Never Be Another You
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Things
This Is My Country
This Land is Your Land
This Little Light of Mine
This Old Man
Ticket to Ride
Till There Was You
Time After Time
Tin Roof Blues
Tisket a Tasket
To a Wild Rose
Tsena Tsena
Under the Sea
Unforgettable
Until I Found You
Ush'avtem Mayim
Wabash Cannonball
Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Washington Post
Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
Way You Look Tonight
We Don't Talk About Bruno
Wheels on the Bus
What a Wonderful World
When I Fall in Love
When I'm 64
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
When the Saints Go Marching In
When You Wish Upon a Star
When You're Smiling
Whole New World
Who's Sorry Now
Wild Blue Yonder
Witchcraft
Wives and Lovers
Yankee Doodle Boy
Yellow Rose of Texas
Yes Sir That's My Baby
Yesterday
Yidishe Ma-me
Yossel Yossel
You Are My Sunshine
You Made Me Love You
You Make Me Feel So Young
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
You'll Never Walk Alone
You're a Grand Old Flag
You've Got a Friend In Me
Y'rushalayim
Zemer Atik
HOLIDAY TITLES
A Caroling We Go
Al Hanisism
All I Want for Xmas is My Two Front Teeth
All I Want For Xmas Is You
All Through the Night
Angels From the Realms of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Baruch Shel Chanukah
Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabella
Chanukah, A Happy Holiday
Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting...)
Dayenu
Deck the Hall
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Do You Hear What I Hear
Eliyahu Hanavi
Feliz Navidad,
First Noel
Frosty the Snowman
The Gift
Go Tell It On the Mountain
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Good Christian Men Rejoice
Good King Wenceslas
Greensleeves
Hallelujah Chorus
Happy Xmas
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Have Yourself a Merry Little Xmas
Here Comes Santa Claus
Here We Come A-Wassailing
Holly Jolly Xmas
Home for the Holidays
I Have a Little Dreydl
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
I Saw Three Ships
I Wonder as I Wander
I'll Be Home for Xmas
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Xmas
Jingle Bell Rock
Jingle Bells
Jolly Old St Nick
Joy to the World
Last Xmas
Let It Snow
Light One Candle
Maoz Tzur
Mary's Boy Child
Most Wonderful Time of the Year
O Chanukah (Y'Mey HaChanukah)
O Come All Ye Faithful
O Come O Come Emmanuel
O Holy Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Ocho Kandelikas
Once in Royal David's City
Over the River & Thru the Woods
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Silent Night
Sleigh Ride
S'Vivon
There's A Song In the Air
Up on the Housetop
We Three Kings of Orient Are
We Wish You a Merry Xmas
Winter Wonderland
About
Dan has been an active musician since his early childhood. While in high school, Dan attended the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan where he sat first chair baritone horn. College studies took him from his parents’ home in Cleveland, Ohio to Rice University in Houston, Texas where he earned bachelors and masters degrees in mechanical engineering. Dan remained an active musician throughout his engineering career in the aerospace and commercial vehicle industries. He has performed with the Oregon Symphony and has been a featured soloist with the Oregon Symphonic Band and the Lake Oswego Millennium Concert Band. Dan also has extensive experience playing lead trombone in jazz big bands as well as playing both euphonium and trombone in small combos and classical ensembles. Dan has retired from engineering and relocated from Chicago back to Portland.
Services Offered
Upcoming Booked Events
| May 17, 2025 • 7:00pm - 7:30pm | Prom/After Prom Party |
| May 22, 2025 • 4:00pm - 7:00pm | Wedding Reception |
| August 13, 2025 • 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Campus Event |
Past Booked Events
| May 08, 2025 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Nonprofit Event |
| April 17, 2025 • 5:00pm - 8:30pm | Cocktail Party |
| March 28, 2025 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Retirement Community Event |
| December 31, 2024 • 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Retirement Community Event |
| December 20, 2024 • 12:00pm - 12:15pm | Christmas Party |
| November 01, 2024 • 5:00pm - 8:00pm | Christmas Party |
| July 20, 2024 • 10:00am - 1:00pm | Nonprofit Event |
| April 01, 2024 • 9:00am - 9:30am | Birthday Party |
| February 13, 2024 • 3:30pm - 5:30pm | Corporate Event |
| November 10, 2023 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Holiday Party |
| July 14, 2023 • 8:00pm - 10:00pm | Weekly/Recurring Performance |
| June 09, 2023 • 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Dinner Party |
| May 11, 2023 • 5:30pm - 8:30pm | Fundraiser |
| February 25, 2023 • 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Corporate Event |
| February 21, 2023 • 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Cocktail Party |
| January 13, 2023 • 6:00pm - 7:30pm | Fundraiser |
| November 16, 2022 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Retirement Community Event |
| October 08, 2022 • 11:30am - 12:15pm | Children’s Birthday Party |
| September 17, 2022 • 6:00pm - 8:00pm | Nonprofit Event |
| September 01, 2022 • 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Retirement Community Event |
| August 06, 2022 • 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Teen Birthday Party |
| June 24, 2022 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm | Retirement Community Event |
| May 06, 2022 • 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Festival |