The band got a great write-up by Bay Area music writer Andrew Gilbert!  You can read it here.

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra plays it's final show of 2015 at the Freight and Salvage.  They'll be playing a double bill with the Jazzschool's Studio Band under the direction of Dave Eshelman.  The ESO will feature special guest John Santos!   
 

We're super pumped to close out our residency at Doc's Lab in 2015 with special guest vocalist Madeline Eastman!  Madeline is one of the greatest jazz singers in the world, and we've worked up some special arrangements for her, and will also be doing some of her own charts that she's collected over the years.  Jazz in the Neighborhood co-sponsors the evening with Doc's Lab, and Kasey Knudsen's Jazzschool High School Ensemble will be opening the evening up at 5:30pm.  

Trumpeter Dave Len Scott, one of the busiest and most in-demand trumpeters in the SF Bay Area, leads the band tomorrow night!  And pianist Colin Hogan's Jazzschool HS combo will open up the show at 5:30pm.  It's going to be a good one!

We're thrilled to have back hands down one of the finest vocalists on the planet this Sunday- Kenny Washington!  We'll be featuring him on arrangements created specifically for him and his unique talents.  Also, a group of talented youngsters will be opening again- this time it's Erik Jekabson's Advanced High School Jazz Workshop II, from the Jazzschool in Berkeley.  They'll open at 5:30pm, and the ESO with Kenny will start at 6:30pm.  We hope to see you there!

We're always excited to have percussionist John Santos join us, and this Sunday he's also joined by drummer extraordinaire David Flores.  It's going to be a fantastic evening featuring the band with some incredible grooves supplied by these two masters.

Saxophonist Marcus Stephens leads the band this Sunday!  Be there for this special occasion.  He's been known to have a sense of humor.

Thanks to everyone who came out to last weekend's shows, they were a total blast!  

Now, on to the next: the incomparable vocalist Kenny Washington, with brand new arrangements by ESO members.  We hope to see you at Doc's Lab for this special show!

Congratulations to all the composers whose pieces for big band were featured tonight at our Emerging Composer Competition, sponsored by Jazz in the Neighborhood and Doc's Lab! It was a great night of new, interesting and challenging music by composers I'm sure we'll all be hearing about in the years to come. Special congratulations to the three finalists: Shai Golan, whose piece "I Wouldn't Even Care" won third place and $100, Javier Nero, whose piece "The Eleventh Plague" won second place and $300, and Aaron Bahr, whose piece "Rubatosis" won first place and $500. All ten pieces that we played tonight were recorded and will be given to the composers. Also special thanks to two of the honorable mention composers who were at the gig: Christopher Main, who wrote "One More Look" and Nate Schwartz, who wrote "If You Build It..."

ESO Bandleader Erik Jekabson and Jazz in the Neighborhood Founder Mario Guarneri will be on KCSM 91.1FM on Wednesday Aug. 26th at 9am, talking with Alisa Clancy about this weekend's upcoming shows at Doc's Lab.