Eso Celebrates Women In Jazz With Special Guests Andrea Claburn And Jamie Zee at Hardymon Hall @ The Jazzschool

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra (ESO), the Jazzschool’s resident composers big band, celebrates Women’s History Month with a concert of music devoted to works by Bay Area women jazz composers. Special guests include saxophonist Jean Fineberg, pianist Anne Sajdera, and vocalists Andrea Claburn and Jamie Zee. Musical selections will include original compositions by Fineberg, Claburn and Sajdera as well as by local luminaries Myra Melford, Ayn Inserto, Jeanne Geiger, and the ESO’s resident poet, Avotcja. Jamie Zee sings songs composed by Bay Area heroine, the former park ranger and civil rights activist Betty Reid Soskin, who died in December at the age of 104....

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The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra (ESO), the Jazzschool’s resident composers big band, celebrates Women’s History Month with a concert of music devoted to works by Bay Area women jazz composers. Special guests include saxophonist Jean Fineberg, pianist Anne Sajdera, and vocalists Andrea Claburn and Jamie Zee. Musical selections will include original compositions by Fineberg, Claburn and Sajdera as well as by local luminaries Myra Melford, Ayn Inserto, Jeanne Geiger, and the ESO’s resident poet, Avotcja. Jamie Zee sings songs composed by Bay Area heroine, the former park ranger and civil rights activist Betty Reid Soskin, who died in December at the age of 104.

ESO Band Members and Instrumentation: Resident Poet: Avotcja; Saxophones: Sheldon Brown, Larry Delacruz, Rob Sudduth, Marcus Stephens, Charlie Gurke; Trombones: Rob Ewing, Will Shannon, Patrick Malabuyo, Rich Lee; Trumpets: Darren Johnston, Erik Jekabson, Christopher Clarke, Edward Evans; Piano: Parker Grant; Guitar: Max Brody; Bass: Josh Tower; Drums: Eric Garland

Group Bio:

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra is the Bay Area’s own 17-piece big band, led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, playing music composed and arranged by its members. The composers and arrangers, some of the very best in the Bay, draw from a wide variety of influences but always come up with powerful music with groove, beauty and subtlety. The band, which started a steady Sunday residency at the California Jazz Conservatory, has collaborated with a number of special guest artists, including John Santos, Kenny Washington, Alan Ferber, Dayna Stephens, Mads Tolling, Sandy Cressman, Kellye Gray, Avotcja, Spok and Ben Goldberg.

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