The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra is a 17 piece big band based in the Bay Area that plays music composed and arranged by its members, The band draws from a wide variety of influences but always comes up with music that grooves and has beauty power, and subtlety.  Led by trumpeter Erik Jekabson, the band has a residency every second Sunday night at the Jazzschool in Berkeley that began in March 2021.  Before that, the band had a weekly residency at the Jazzschool from 2018-2020 and at Doc's Lab in North Beach SF from 2014-2018.  The ESO. currently consists of Jekabson, Darren Johnston, Edward Evans, and Christopher Clarke on trumpets; Spencer Sussman, Will Shannon, Patrick Malabuyo and Richard Lee on trombones; Sheldon Brown and Larry Delacruz on alto saxes, Rob Sudduth and Marcus Stephens on tenor saxes, Charlie Gurke on baritone sax, and the rhythm section of Parker Grant, piano; Max Brody, guitar; Josh Tower, bass; and Eric Garland on drums.  In addition, the band has a resident poet: the Bay Area's own wonderful Avotcja.  You'll catch many of the Bay Area's top jazz musicians subbing into the band each performance, and the band has collaborated with special guests Kalil Wilson, John Santos, Kenny Washington, Spok, Madeline Eastman, Sandy Cressman, Edgardo Cambon,  Nicolas Bearde, Mads Tolling, Kellye Gray, Alan Ferber, Dayna Stephens, Harvey Wainapel, Ben Goldberg and Remy LeBouef. Their first two CDs  "The Falling Dream"(2018) and "Cheap Rent" (2015) are on the OA2 label.  Their third CD, "ESO with voices: Matter Is"(2020) which features their collaborations with guest vocalists Madeline Eastman, Sandy Cressman, Kalil Wilson, Kenny Washington and Avotjca is on the DoubleOone record label.   Their most recent CD “A Piece of the Action” (2025), on the Jekab's Music label,  was named by the San Jose Mercury News as one of the Bay Area's best jazz records of 2025.