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Erik Jekabson
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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.
The Skipper and Mike Clark
By Daggerboard
Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Desierto de Tabernas; Changing Emphasis; Tanzanian Skies; Runnin' Into One; Street Sheik; Brother
Ranelin; Tranquil Blue; A Pride in the Prairie; Free Lancer; Ruaha Daybreak.
Reinventing The Wheel
By Mighty Joe Belson and the Doodle Cats
Label: Necessary Vice
Released: 2025
Track listing: Greerin' Out ;
Manny Manhattan;
Basie Boy;
Weenie Martini;
Dear Sammy;
Schmaltz Waltz;
Orthopedic Hell;
Odie-O (Scribble Dogs Theme Song);
Big Business;
Starry Night;
Snow Day;
Sheddin'.
Lawson Rollins: Next Steps
by Dean Nardi
Next Steps is a mainstream but delightful mix of jaunty and splendid originals from gifted North Carolina acoustic guitarist Lawson Rollins, continuing his steady rise into the ranks of the finest contemporary musicians. These are ingenious transformations of his eleven heady compositions into rich improvisations in the company of fine musicians who have played with him ...
Daggerboard: The Skipper and Mike Clark
by Jack Bowers
The rhythm section--more specifically, bassist Henry “The Skipper" Franklin and drummer Mike Clark--is front and center on the fourth recording by San Francisco Bay-area Daggerboard, the brainchild of trumpeter Erik Jekabson and percussionist Gregory Howe, who have enlisted a large array of supporting actors to help refine and sharpen their unique musical vision. That ...
I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu
by Ludovico Granvassu
Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025
by Ludovico Granvassu
Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...
Breakthrough
Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 1); Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 2); The Whisperer; A Centered Vibe; Speedway Meadow; Sun on the Keys; Above the Clouds; El Don; Washington as a Surveyor; Into the Jungle (Pt. 1); Into the Jungle (Pt. 2); Into the Jungle (Pt. 3); Sunset on the Keys
Till Brönner; Pino Palladino, Blake Mills; Aki Rissanen & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a playlist packed with unbridled joy and energy! Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Till Brönner “Il trucido e lo sbirro" Italia (earMUSIC) 0:16 Host talks 4:59 Aki Rissanen “Glitch In The Heavens" Imaginary Mountains (Edition) 6:43 Pino Palladino, Blake Mills “What Is Wrong with ...
A Few Of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things (So Far), Part 2
by Ludovico Granvassu
With the past six months delivering an unstoppable stream of excellent new albums, we take stock and focus on the standout songs and compositions that have left a mark.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison, One O'Clock Lab Band “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Allison Miller “Big and Lovely" Big ...
