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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. His solo album Intersection, a jazz record recorded in New York, was released in the fall of 2003 by the Fresh Sound/New Talent label, and recordings of two of his other projects, Vista: the Arrival and New World Funk Ensemble are also widely available. Jekabson has recorded as a sideman on over 25 other jazz recordings, as well as recording on movie and video game soundtracks, and is currently recording a series of jazz trumpet duets to accompany an original book. He has spent time on the road with Illinois Jacquet, John Mayer, Galactic, and the Howard Fishiman Quartet, performing at the Concertegebow in Amsterdam, the Algonquin Room, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Madison Square Garden and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman.

Jekabson currently leads his own ensembles in the Bay Area, and has performed with them at the DeYoung Museum, Jazz at Pearl's, Pacifica Performances, the Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival, the Jazzschool, and the Red Poppy Art House. He has also appeared as a sideman with other groups at the San Jose Festival, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the North Beach Jazz Festival, and the Gualala Jazz Festival. Jekabson 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, Larry Vuckovich, Lavay Smith, and the Jazz Mafia. Jekabson is currently teaching young musicians at The Jazzschool in Berkeley and is teaching a course on the history of jazz at Berkeley City College. He has 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.

He joined the faculty at California State University, East Bay in fall 2008 as lecturer of jazz trumpet.

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