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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.

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.

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, ...

Shaw's Groove

By Jason Keiser

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Organ Grinder; Zoltan; The Moontrane; Katerina Ballerina; Blues for Woody; Obsequious; Jean Marie; Shaw's Groove.

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).

Jason Keiser: Shaw's Groove

by Jack Bowers
May 24, 2023

The “Shaw" in guitarist Jason Keiser's album Shaw's Groove is the late great Woody Shaw, one of the more innovative and influential jazz trumpeters of the twentieth century. Even though he lived only forty-four years (he died in May 1989), Shaw was an important role model whose sweeping influence remains strong to this day, both as ...

Organ Grinder

April 10, 2023

Album: Shaw's Groove
By Jason Keiser
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:41

Daggerboard And the Skipper

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Dream Within A Dream; Agapanthus; Involuntary Separation; Skipper's Garden; Seven For Henry; Oaxacan Standoff; Video Culture; Conception Point; Opposite Reverse Rewind.

Chris Potter Big Band and Quartet at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
April 6, 2022

Chris Potter Big Band and Quartet CenterSFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA March 17-19, 2022 Widely acclaimed saxophonist Chris Potter needs no introduction. His fans know him as someone who is always expanding and growing. In addition to his recent role as leader of the SFJAZZ Collective, Potter has formed trios and ...

Final Floor

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Supraliminal Space; Caste Off; Daggerboard; Ice Windows; Recirculate; Final Floor; Heart of Hearing; Return to Form; Standards Reproached; Fast Remourse; Rooftop Sunrise.