Results for "Erik Jekabson"

Jazz at Holmes Series Announces Dates of Free Summer Concerts

June 16, 2013

The Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University has announced a summer schedule of three free concerts during the month of July. The summer series starts on Thursday, July 11 with a performance by singer Feyza Eren and her band. Next up, trumpeter Erik Jekabson, who's from San Francisco, will play with a quartet of local ...

Anti-Mass

By Erik Jekabson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: Silence; Strontium; Park Stroll; A New Beginning; Interlude 1; Anti-Mass; Interlude 2; Portrait of Miss D; The Cello Player; To Be DeYoung Again; Afternoon on the Sea; Monhegan.

Erik Jekabson: Anti-Mass

by Dan McClenaghan
November 30, 2012

Trumpeter Erik Jekabson likes to stroll through San Francisco's DeYoung Museum and imagine what the visual works there would sound like. In league with his Sting-tet ensemble, he explores the textures and colors, the harmonies and melodies of these artworks, translating them into sounds on Anti-Mass. Teaming with violin, viola, saxophone, bass and drum, and with ...

Art & Architecture Inspire Trumpeter/Composer Erik Jekabson's Sept. 18 Release, "Anti-Mass"

September 11, 2012

Anti-Mass, a chamber-jazz concept album by trumpeter/composer Erik Jekabson, features his String-tet playing music inspired by artwork from the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. The impressive list of sideman includes Dayna Stephens, tenor sax; Mads Tolling, violin; Charith Premawardhana, viola,; John Wiitala, bass; Smith Dobson on drums and vibraphone; and Jekabson on trumpet and flugelhorn. “I'm ...

Scott Hamilton and Friends at Dinkelspiel Auditorium Stanford University, Stanford California

by Bill Leikam
March 23, 2012

Scott Hamilton and Friends Stanford Jazz Festival--40th AnniversaryDinkelspiel AuditoriumStanford, CaliforniaFebruary 24, 2012As a part of the 40th anniversary of the Stanford Jazz Festival, Scott Hamilton took to the stage to a nearly sold out crowd for a powerful evening of jazz. Hamilton is one of the most highly respected ...

Take Five With Erik Jekabson

by AAJ Staff
September 12, 2010

Meet Erik Jekabson: Erik Jekabson is a freelance trumpet player, composer and educator who has recorded or performed with Illinois Jacquet, the Woody Herman Big Band, John Mayer, Galactic, Mark Turner, Brian Blade, and Nicholas Payton, among others. He has a Bachelor's of Music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master's of Music from the ...

Erik Jekabson, Peter Barshay, Akira Tana, "I'll Remember April"

Featuring the music of Erik Jekabson
Duration: 6:40
August 27, 2010

"Crescent Boulevard" a New CD from Trumpeter/Composer Erik Jekabson

August 12, 2010

San Francisco Bay Area trumpeter Erik Jekabson has released his second CD, Crescent Boulevard following up his debut CD Intersection on Fresh Sound/New Talent. Crescent Boulevard features a cast of Bay Area musicians and Jekabson's original compositions except for one standard, “My Shining Hour." Having toured with Galactic, John Mayer, Illinois Jacquet, the Woody Herman Big ...

Intersection

By Erik Jekabson

Label: Blue Moon
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. On The Move 6:50, 2. Intersection 7:58, 3. Invigoration 7:00, 4. A Night on the Town 9:17, 5. Little One 9:04, 6. The Rising 7:23, 7.Farewell 6:58, 8. You Go to My Head 4:31

Erik Jekabson: Intersection

by Phil DiPietro
October 6, 2003

Like many of his compadres on the Spanish FSNT imprint, trumpeter Erik Jekabson sports not only playing chops but also writing and arranging acumen. The Berkeley, California native has spent the last five years in New York, where he's worked with the Illinois Jacquet and Woody Herman Big Bands, and the Howard Fishman Quartet. “On The ...