A Jazz Double Bill: Erik Jekabson Quintet and Patrick Wolff Sextet

Doc's Lab Presents

A Jazz Double Bill: Erik Jekabson Quintet and Patrick Wolff Sextet

Tue, November 1, 2016

Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm

Doc's Lab

San Francisco, CA

$10.00

Tickets Available at the Door

Sync event to Google Calendar
Erik Jekabson Quintet
Erik Jekabson Quintet
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 and teaching a wide variety of students. Erik has four CDs out under his own name: his most recent album is "Erik Jekabson Quartet & John Santos: Live at the Hillside Club", (released in 2014) which like “Anti-Mass"(2012) , and "Crescent Boulevard" (2010) are on his own Jekab's Music record label. A fourth CD, “Intersection”, was recorded in New York in 2002 and released on the Fresh Sound/New Talent label. Erik also co-produced and played on two other recordings which are widely available: “Vista: the Arrival” and “New World Funk Ensemble”. He's recorded as a sideman on over 25 other jazz recordings, as well as doing session work in many other genres of music and on movie and video game soundtracks. 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 written for singers Madeline Eastman, Sandy Cressman, Raz Kennedy, Shanna Carlson, and for the San Francisco Symphony, the Stanford Jazz Orchestra, the Realistic Orchestra, the California State University East Bay Jazz Ensemble, the SF Composers Orchestra and his own Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, which plays every Sunday at Doc's Lab in San Francisco.

Erik currently leads his own ensembles in the Bay Area, and has brought them to the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the DeYoung Museum, the SFJazz Center, Kuumbwa Jazz, the Jazzschool, 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 and the Piedmont Piano Company. He also works with local Bay Area musicians such as Jeff Denson, Mario Guarneri's tbd, the Michael O'Neill Quintet featuring Kenny Washington, Patrick Wolff's Sextet, Larry Vuckovich, Adam Shulman, Smith Dobson's Prez Kids and Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Erik has a Bachelors Degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a Master's Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and is currently the director of the Young Musician's Program at the Jazzschool, and serves on the board of Jazz in the Neighborhood. He is on the faculty at the California Jazz Conservatory, Los Medanos College and Diablo Valley College, and has given clinics at Santa Rosa Junior College, Cal State East Bay and Loyola College in New Orleans. He's a regular instructor at Jazzcamp West, the Stanford Jazz Workshop, the Lafayette Summer Jazz Workshop and the Brubeck Institute, and has written two books of jazz duets for trumpet.
Patrick Wolff Sextet
Patrick Wolff Sextet
Patrick Wolff is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, originally from New York, and currently residing in San Francisco.

Wolff attended New York University, where he studied with Ralph Lalama, George Garzone, Frank Foster, Ron McClure, and Frank Kimbrough. In the jazz world, Patrick Wolff has toured heavily with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, worked with Shane Endsley, Matt Wilson, Grant Stewart, Dena DeRose, Josh Roseman, Judi Silvano, Marcus Shelby, and Ron McClure.
Venue Information:
Doc's Lab
124 Columbus Ave
San Francisco, CA, 94133
https://docslabsf.com