Erik Jekabson Quintet at The Sound Room

Erik Jekabson Quintet CD release show featuring Dave Ellis, saxophones; Matt Clark, piano, John Wiitala, bass and Hamir Atwal, drums. Celebrate the release of "Erik Jekabson Quintet" on Wide Hive Records.


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 and teaching a wide variety of students. Erik has five CDs out under his own name: his most recent album is A Brand New Take on the OA2 record label. His other CDs are Erik Jekabson Quartet & John Santos: Live at the Hillside Club, (released in 2014) which like Anti-Mass(2012) , and Crescent Boulevard (2010) are on his own Jekabs 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 two other recordings which are widely available: Vista: the Arrival and New World Funk Ensemble. Hes 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. Hes 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. As an arranger and composer, hes written for both vocalists (Madeleine Peyroux, Ani DiFranco, Jane Krakowski, Jackie Ryan, Kenny Washington, Madeline Eastman, Kellye Gray, Sandy Cressman, Raz Kennedy, Shanna Carlson) and instrumental ensembles. (San Francisco Symphony, the Stanford Jazz Orchestra, the Realistic Orchestra, the California State University East Bay Jazz Ensemble, the SF Composers Orchestra and his own Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, which plays every Sunday at Docs Lab in San Francisco.)...

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Erik Jekabson Quintet CD release show featuring Dave Ellis, saxophones; Matt Clark, piano, John Wiitala, bass and Hamir Atwal, drums. Celebrate the release of "Erik Jekabson Quintet" on Wide Hive Records.


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 and teaching a wide variety of students. Erik has five CDs out under his own name: his most recent album is A Brand New Take on the OA2 record label. His other CDs are Erik Jekabson Quartet & John Santos: Live at the Hillside Club, (released in 2014) which like Anti-Mass(2012) , and Crescent Boulevard (2010) are on his own Jekabs 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 two other recordings which are widely available: Vista: the Arrival and New World Funk Ensemble. Hes 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. Hes 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. As an arranger and composer, hes written for both vocalists (Madeleine Peyroux, Ani DiFranco, Jane Krakowski, Jackie Ryan, Kenny Washington, Madeline Eastman, Kellye Gray, Sandy Cressman, Raz Kennedy, Shanna Carlson) and instrumental ensembles. (San Francisco Symphony, the Stanford Jazz Orchestra, the Realistic Orchestra, the California State University East Bay Jazz Ensemble, the SF Composers Orchestra and his own Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, which plays every Sunday at Docs Lab in San Francisco.)

Erik currently leads his own ensembles in the Bay Area, and has brought them to the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the DeYoung Museum, the SFJazz Center, Kuumbwa Jazz, Cafe Stritch, the California Jazz Conservatory, the Napa Valley Jazz Societys Parlor Series, Jazz at Pearls, The Sound Room, Pacifica Performances, the Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival, the Red Poppy Art House, the Piedmont Piano Company and Old First Church Concerts. He also works with local Bay Area musicians such as the Fred Randolph Quintet, Mario Guarneris tbd, the Michael ONeill Quintet featuring Kenny Washington and Manny Moka and the Band on Fire. Erik has a Bachelors Degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Masters Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is currently the director of the Young Musicians Program at the Jazzschool, and serves on the board of Jazz in the Neighborhood. He is on the faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory, Los Medanos College and Diablo Valley College, and has given clinics at Santa Rosa Junior College, Cal State East Bay and Loyola College in New Orleans. Hes a regular instructor at Jazzcamp West, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the Lafayette Summer Jazz Workshop and the Brubeck Institute, and has written two books of jazz duets for trumpet.

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