Electric Squeezebox Orchestra

Electric Squeezebox Orchestra: The Falling Dream

by Jack Bowers
April 2, 2018

No, the San Francisco-based Electric Squeezebox Orchestra does not come with accordions attached. It does, however, come with a well-developed eye for harmony and rhythm, an inflexible group dynamic and a number of perceptive soloists, all of which serve to make the ensemble's second album, The Falling Dream, a pleasure to hear. The orchestra's nominal leader is trumpeter Erik Jekabson who wrote three of the album's tasteful numbers, the undulating “Guala," circuitous “November" and hard-hitting finale, “Jungle ...