Erik Jekabson

Trumpeter/composer Erik Jekabson is really a versatile performer with formidable jazz improvisation abilities that has moved deftly between your worlds of creative improvisation, funk, and pop. A indigenous of Berkeley, California, Jekabson performed music from an early on age, eventually buying the trumpet at age group ten. By his teenagers Jekabson’s playing got him an area touring Japan using the Monterey Jazz Event SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL All-Star Big Music group in 1991. After senior high school he analyzed jazz in the exclusive Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, where could tour america in advertising of Oberlin’s jazz system. Graduating in 1994, Jekabson relocated to New Orleans and discovered himself carrying out with such assorted performers as trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, organist Eddy Louiss, as well as the jazz-funk group Galactic. A proceed to NEW YORK in 1998 brought Jekabson use an eclectic band of musicians like the Howard Fishman Quartet as well as the Illinois Jacquet Big Music group in addition to gigs along with his personal post-bop-oriented ensemble, Vista. In 2003, Jekabson signed up for the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Conservatory of Music’s graduate system for structure. While mixed up in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA music picture, Jekabson may be discovered touring with vocalist/songwriter John Mayer. This year 2010, he released the recording Crescent Boulevard. In 2012, Jekabson came back with the recording Anti-Mass, offering his plans for his little, string-based chamber jazz ensemble, the String-tet. The concert recording Live in the Hillside Golf club, featuring Jekabson carrying out along with his quartet and percussionist John Santos, made an appearance in 2014. 2 yrs afterwards, the trumpeter came back using the nuanced, post-bop-inflected A WHOLE NEW Take.