Erik Jekabson Sextet

Description

Erik Jekabson is a freelance 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, teaching a wide variety of students and running the Young Musicians Program at the California Jazz Conservatory.

Erik has six CDs out under his own name: his most recent album is "Erik Jekabson Quintet" (2017) on the Wide Hive Record Label. His other CDs are: "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) which are 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 also co-produced and played on four other recordings which are widely available: The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra's "The Falling Dream" and "Cheap Rent", "Vista: the Arrival" and "New World Funk Ensemble". He's recorded as a sideman on numerous other jazz recordings, as well as doing session work in many other genres of music and on movie and video game soundtracks.

All Ages Welcome.