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Erik Jekabson

Born: March 23, 1973

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, (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.

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.

Breakthrough

By Erik Jekabson

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 1); Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 2); The Whisperer; A Centered Vibe; Speedway Meadow; Sun on the Keys; Above the Clouds; El Don; Washington as a Surveyor; Into the Jungle (Pt. 1); Into the Jungle (Pt. 2); Into the Jungle (Pt. 3); Sunset on the Keys

Treasures of the Heart

By Jacqui Naylor

Label: Ruby Star Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: I Didn’t Know What Time It Was; Treasures of the Heart; All That We Could Be; Happy Adventure; Walk Out in the Sun; Love's Around; True Colors; You're the One for Me; Love in Springtime; Lovely Day; Picture Book of You; This Guy's in Love with You; Hold on; We'll Shine Through.

Kind of Kenny

By Jason Keiser

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Kind of Kenny; Hotel Le Hot; Gentle Piece; Kayak; Wheeler's Waltz; W.W.; Kind Folk; The Jigsaw; For Jan (feat. Danielle Wertz); Wheeler's Waltz (guitar duo feat. John Stowell).

SF Bay Area Trumpeter-Composer Erik Jekabson Displays His Mastery Of Orchestral Jazz On 'Breakthrough,' To Be Released January 17 On Wide Hive Records

December 4, 2024

Erik Jekabson retrains his musical focus in an unfamiliar direction—lush, intricate, ambitious chamber jazz—with Breakthrough, set for a January 17 release on Wide Hive Records. Featuring 15 musicians, the album is the San Francisco Bay Area trumpeter-composer’s first time marrying an orchestral ensemble (in the European sense, using strings, brasses, and reeds) with a jazz rhythm ...

Kind of Kenny

October 21, 2024

Album: Kind of Kenny
By Jason Keiser
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:37

Jason Keiser: Kind of Kenny

by Andrew Gilbert
September 14, 2024

Over the past decade San Jose guitarist Jason Keiser has carved out a sterling reputation as a bandleader whose musical passions range across North America's expansive soundscape, and this album extends his exploration into arrestingly lyrical territory. After highlighting Woody Shaw's treasure trove of intervallic leaping post-bop gems on 2023's Shaw's Groove, he turns his attention ...

Jacqui Naylor: Treasures of the Heart

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 15, 2024

Jacqui Naylor's Treasure of the Heart sends up fourteen highly unique jewels, with ten of those being original compositions from Naylor and spouse Art Khu and four classics, all offering a wide range of grooves from funk, jazz, and rock. Throughout the date, Naylor exhibits a healthy versatility with her vocal instrument and delivers a lyric ...

Innovative Jazz Vocalist/Composer Jacqui Naylor Releases 'Treasures Of The Heart,' Her 12th Album

March 7, 2024

Jacqui Naylor is one of the most captivating and innovative vocalists on the scene today. Her albums are not easy to characterize because they always take you on unexpected adventures with songs flavored with jazz, R&B, soul, and pop. The prolific recording artist, singer, and composer is now releasing her 12th album, Treasures of the Heart, ...

Savoy

By Taj Mahal

Label: Stony Plain Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Stompin' At The Savoy; I'm Just A Lucky So-And-So; Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You; Summertime; Mood Indigo; Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me; Sweet Georgia Brown; Taj Mahal/Maria Muldaur - Baby It's Cold Outside; Lady Be Good; Baby Won't You Please Come Home; Caldonia; Killer Joe; One For My Baby (And One More For The Road).