Erik Jekabson is a trumpet player, composer, arranger and educator who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is equally busy playing and composing for different bands, leading his own groups, (the Erik Jekabson Sextet, the String-tet and the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra) teaching a wide variety of students and running the Young Musicians Program at the California Jazz Conservatory.
Erik has eight CDs out under his own name: “One Note at a Time” (2020) “Erik Jekabson Sextet” (2018) and “Erik Jekabson Quintet” on the Wide Hive label, “A Brand New Take” (2016) on the OA2 record label, and “Erik Jekabson Quartet & John Santos: Live at the Hillside Club”, (2014) ,“Anti-Mass”(2012) , and “Crescent Boulevard” (2010) on his own Jekab’s Music record label. His debut CD, “Intersection”, was recorded in New York in 2002 and released on the Fresh Sound/New Talent label.
Erik has also co-produced five other recordings which are widely available: The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra’s “Matter Is” (2019, DoubleOone Records) “The Falling Dream” (2018) and “Cheap Rent” (2015) (OA2 Records), “Vista: the Arrival” (2000 (self-produced) and “New World Funk Ensemble”(1998, Turnipseed Music). In addition, he’s been heavily involved in Wide Hive Records “Daggerboard” series of recordings, where he’s composed and arranged for strings, percussion, woodwinds and brass for “Daggerboard and the Skipper ” and forthcoming recordings.
He’s spent time on the road with Illinois Jacquet, John Mayer, Galactic, and the Howard Fishman Quartet, and has performed at such notable venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Algonquin Room, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Madison Square Garden, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman.
He will be performing with:
Erik Jekabson, trumpet
Kasey Knudsen, alto sax
Ian McArdle, piano
Dan Feiszli, bass
Josh Jones, percussion
Brian Fishler, drums
