{{Short description|American jazz vibraphonist and keyboardist}} {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = James Westfall | image = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_place = Houston, Texas | birth_date = 1981 | genre = Jazz, jazz fusion, rock | instrument = Vibraphone, keytar | years_active = 2003–present | label = Bionic | current_member_of = The Wee Trio | website = {{URL|jameswestfall.com}} }}
'''James Westfall''' is a jazz vibraphonist and keyboardist born in Houston, Texas.
He began on violin at age 6 before moving to piano and then percussion. He became interested in vibraphone due in part to his grandfather.
He attended the University of New Orleans. In New Orleans he studied under Terence Blanchard, Harold Battiste, Steve Masakowski and Ellis Marsalis Jr.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-19 |title=New Director of Jazz Studies at Kinder HSPVA Houston, TX |url=https://docfestjazz.org/2024/08/19/new-director-of-jazz-studies-at-kinder-hspva-houston-tx/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=DocFest Houston December 21, 2024 |language=en}}</ref> Later he moved to Los Angeles, California where he was part of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. At present he lives in Nashville working as a studio musician.
Westfall is a founding member of The Wee Trio.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-19 |title=New Director of Jazz Studies at Kinder HSPVA Houston, TX |url=https://docfestjazz.org/2024/08/19/new-director-of-jazz-studies-at-kinder-hspva-houston-tx/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=DocFest Houston December 21, 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
==Discography== * ''Capitol Diner Vol. 1'' with the Wee Trio (Bionic, 2007) * ''Capitol Diner Vol. 2'' with the Wee Trio (Bionic, 2010) * ''Ashes to Ashes'' with the Wee Trio (Bionic, 2012) * ''Wee + 3'' with the Wee Trio (Bionic, 2016)
===As sideman=== * Sasha Masakowski, ''Wishes'' (Hypersoul, 2011)
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==External links== *[https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/james-westfall All About Jazz musician profile] *[http://www.jameswestfall.com/home.htm James Westfall's website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061218033917/http://www.jameswestfall.com/home.htm |date=2006-12-18 }}
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