MP3 Erik Jekabson - Crescent Boulevard

Erik Jekabson's music is mellow, introspective and lyrical. As a trumpeter, he is influenced by Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Blue Mitchell. As a composer, he's influenced by Gil Evans, Claude Debussy, Duke Ellington and Kenny Wheeler.

9 MP3 Songs in this album (54:12) !
Related styles: Jazz: Mainstream Jazz, Latin: Brazilian Jazz, Instrumental

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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 two solo albums: âIntersectionâ, which was recorded in New York and released in the fall of 2003 on the Fresh Sound/New Talent label, and âCrescent Boulevardâ, which was released in Berkeley and released in July of 2010 in on his own Jekabâs Music label. Recordings of two other projects that he co-produced, âVista: the Arrivalâ and âNew World Funk Ensembleâ are also widely available. Erik has recorded as a sideman on over 25 other jazz recordings, as well as recording on movie and video game soundtracks, and has self-published â32 Jazz Duets for Trumpet: Beginning, Intermediate and Advancedâ.

Erik currently leads his own ensembles in the San Francisco Bay Area, performing at the DeYoung Museum, Jazz at Pearlâs, Pacifica Performances, the Benicia Jazz Festival, Gualala's "Whale and Jazz" Festival, the Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival, the Jazzschool, the Hillside Club, Coda, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Red Poppy Art House. He has also appeared with other groups at the San Jose Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Festival, and the North Beach Jazz Festival. Erik maintains a busy schedule as a freelance musician in addition to his teaching jobs and often performs with local Bay Area musicians such as Marcus Shelby, Adam Shulman, Terry Disley, Larry Vuckovich, Lavay Smith, and the Jazz Mafia. Erik has a Bachelorâs of Music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Masterâs of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is currently teaching at The Jazzschool, Berkeley City College, Chabot College, Cal State East Bay, Los Medanos College, and Diablo Valley College. Heâs also taught clinics at Santa Rosa Junior College and Loyola College in New Orleans, as well as teaching at Jazzcamp West, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, and the Lafayette Summer Jazz Workshop. You can visit him on the web at www.erikjekabson.com