Jake Breaks - Categorical Expansionism
Jacob B returns with Categorical Expansionism, a collection of twelve new songs that venture through many musical genres and textures with both ease and intensity. Rock, Instrumental Hip Hop, Jazz and Classical all join forces to create a new exciting sound.
Joining Jake Breaks are Throttle Elevator Music members Gregory Howe, Erik Jekabson (Trumpet), guitarist Ross Howe and drummer Mike Hughes. Featured on Violin is Mads Tolling and Cello is Ben Davis.
Stand-out composition Astral Kithara features Gregory Howe on Rhodes and Ben Davis’ Cello. Winds of Fanfare has both Erik Jekabson’s trumpet and Mads Tolling’s violin soaring with powerful results.
Track Listing:
WINDS OF FANFARE 4.35
ASTRAL KITHARA 3.47
CLUBULC 4.44
TUMBLING IN VASTNESS 5.28
TEMPORAL FUSION 2.57
HAMMONDS MEADOW SUITE 5.01
LOWLAND LEVEL RISE 3.08
MIDNIGHT LIGHTS 3.26
SWIMMING IN THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 3.06
ABADAX 2.08
MOOR THYME WEST 4.30
Erik Jekabson
Erik Jekabson is a freelance trumpet player, composer, arranger and educator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has toured with Illinois Jacquet, John Mayer, Galactic, and has performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman.
Gregory Howe
Gregory Howe founded Wide Hive Records in 1996. While primarily active as producer, mixer, and composer, Howe also performs guitar, synthesizer, turntable, voice and percussion on many recordings. From 1996 to 2024 Howe recorded and released albums for Throttle Elevator Music with Kamasi Washington, Roscoe Mitchell, Mike Clark, Dissent, Erik Jekabson, Calvin Keys, Phil Ranelin (Pharoah Sanders, Henry Franklin, Big Black), Wide Hive Players and the incomparable artist and guitarist Larry Coryell.
Mike Hughes
Michael Hughes is an American drummer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied drumming at L.A. Music Academy with Joe Porcaro and Ralph Humphrey and spent a decade performing in LA with artists such as Tal Wilkenfeld, Frank Gambale, and Robben Ford. He is the drummer on "Heavy Feel" by Larry Coryell as well as Throttle Elevator Music's "Area J" and "Jagged Rocks" featuring Kamasi Washington.
Mike Rinta
Bammy-winning Mike Rinta was the featured trombonist with Sly & The Family Stone, John Lee Hooker Jr., Variable Unit, Calvin Keys, Harvey Mandel, and Brass Monkey Brass Band, Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Mike has played with a myriad of accomplished bands and musicians, and has toured North America and Europe with Michelle Shocked and also the Dynatones.
Ross Howe
Ross Howe is a Bay Area guitar player and music educator. He performs with several gypsy jazz ensembles in and around the San Francisco Bay Area but mainly leads his own band The Yacht Club of Paris. His playing incorporates elements of the classical tradition with the vocabulary of modern jazz. Ross was named "Jazz in the Neighborhoods "Rising Star" in 2015.