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Erik Jekabson New Orleans Quintet with special guest Kenny Washington
Erik Jekabson joins forces with New Orleans native vocalist Kenny Washington to bring the sounds of New Orleans to Oakland. Featuring an all-star quintet of Erik Jekabson on trumpet, Rob Barics on clarinet and tenor sax, Rob Reich on piano, Ron Belcher on bass and Deszon Claiborne on drums.
$25 General Admission
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ERIK JEKABSON
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.
As an arranger and composer, he’s arranged for both vocalists (Madeleine Peyroux, Ani DiFranco, Jane Krakowski, Jackie Ryan, Kenny Washington, Madeline Eastman, Kellye Gray, Kalil Wilson, Sandy Cressman, Raz Kennedy, Rachel Efron and the spoken word artist Avotcja) and instrumental ensembles. (San Francisco Symphony, the BBC Radio Orchestra, Utah Symphony, the Daggerboard Collective, Throttle Elevator Music, and his own Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, which holds a monthly residency at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley.)
Erik currently leads his own ensembles in the Bay Area, and has brought them to the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the DeYoung Museum, the SFJazz Center, Kuumbwa Jazz, Cafe Stritch, the California Jazz Conservatory, San Jose Jazz Summerfest, Palo Alto Jazz Alliance, the Napa Valley Jazz Society’s Parlor Series, Jazz at Pearl’s, The Sound Room, Pacifica Performances, the Downtown Berkeley Jazz Festival, the Red Poppy Art House, the Piedmont Piano Company and Old First Church Concerts. He also works with local Bay Area musicians such as the Fred Randolph Quintet, Mario Guarneri’s tbd, and the Michael O’Neill Quintet featuring Tony Lindsay. erikjekabson.com
KENNY WASHINGTON
Kenny Washington is an Oakland-based nominated vocalist who has performed all over the world. His 2021 debut CD What's The Hurry? was nominated for a grammy for best vocal jazz album in 2021.